With four impactful words, Chauncey Billups cleared up his basketball future on Tuesday: “I will be back.” After tearing his left Achilles tendon on Monday night against the Orlando Magic and undergoing an MRI in Cleveland on Tuesday that confirmed the tear, Billups spoke candidly about his plans to return from the injury while fending […]

 Not many years ago the debate was, would Allen Iverson’s NBA credentials warrant a trip to the basketball Hall of Fame based on his early outstanding career with the Philadelphia 76ers that included being named NBA Rookie of the Year (1997), a trip to the NBA Finals, NBA MVP honors in  2001, four scoring titles, […]

 It is going to be a busy week of player movement around the NBA, no doubt a precursor to teams tightening up their rosters with the NBA  trade deadlines steadily approaching. And it all starts today. Monday is the first day teams can begin offering 10-day contracts — with teams allowed to extend up to […]

One of these guys won’t be laughing like this in London. When Kobe Bryant and Ricky Rubio exchanged friendly fire and jokes after the Los Angeles Lakers’ 106-101 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minnesota on Sunday night, it was all in good clean fun. “You’re going to get the Silver medal,” Rubio told Bryant […]

Joe Dumars has his work cut out for him if he plans on luring any NBA free agents to the Detroit Pistons. Before Dumars, the president of basketball operations for the Pistons, signed Chauncey Billups to a free agent contract in 2002 — a signing that was part of a catalyst for Detroit capturing the […]

One of the first images you see when you pull up the report that the Milwaukee Bucks’ center Andrew Bogut is hurt (yes, again) is Bogut’s  bloated and fractured left ankle.  Hide the wife and kids.  It’s not a pretty sight, but it is becoming a reoccurring theme every NBA season for the oft-injured Aussie […]

 Just when you thought the D-League couldn’t possibly add any more veteran NBA free-agents to their rosters, along comes Rafer Alston.  According to

Weeks of ongoing negotiations between Nicolas Batum and the Porltand Trail Blazers all comes down to Wednesday, and if the deadline  passes and an extension isn’t reached Blazers fans shouldn’t be alarmed. But there still may be long term cause for worry. On a day that so far has seen both Kevin Love of the […]

It’s hard not to mention the Seattle Supersonics and not think of Gary Payton. Whether he was talking trash our scowling at opponents on his way to earning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in 1996, or throwing half court lob dunks  to Shawn Kemp on the break, there’s no doubt “The Glove” […]

Devin Harris has been here before, but for how much longer will he be in Utah no one knows. Over the last week – and even dating back as far as last June’s NBA Draft – Harris’ name has floated about in trade reports with the latest update coming early Friday morning that the Jazz […]

Three seasons ago while still in Portland covering the Trail Blazers, I caught up with then Rip City swingman Rudy Fernandez after a home game at the Rose Garden. I can’t remember who Portland played or if they won, but I do remember Fernandez being in a media friendly mood as I worked on an […]

The scouting report on Mike Miller has been common knowledge ever since he was in high school in Mitchell, South Dakota. The dude can stroke it from beyond the arc. Miller proved that at Florida and for his past 11 seasons in the NBA, and on Tuesday night he made his long awaited return for […]

 When it comes to homecomings on Monday night, Lamar Odom stole Kendrick Perkins’ thunder – or Oklahoma City Thunder in this case.  But while Odom’s Dallas Mavericks fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in his first return to the Staples Center since being sold up the river to the  Mavs, it’s clear Boston still belongs […]

 Adam Morrison is probably somewhere in Istanbul, Turkey feeling Chris Bosh’s pain right about now.  You’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t remember where they were when Morrison – then a junior playing for Gonzaga –  broke down in tears and sobbed uncontrollably on the floor at the Oakland Coliseum after a late […]

 As the NBA trade deadline starts to creep up, look for front offices around the league to make a few phone calls to the Cleveland Cavaliers.  Just don’t expect someone to pick up right away, at least if inquiring about the availability of Anderson Varejao.  This past week, the 29-year old power forward/center’s name has […]