Rajon Rondo is a passing savant.  The man finds such impossible passing angles that you wonder if he’s living in a Matrix-type world.  Defensively, can drive you more insane than an attacking swarm of bees.   Yet for all his strengths, there are also glaring weaknesses.  His jumpshot is… actually, I’ll leave it at that. […]

The Denver Nuggets and the decision they made last February was one of the major talking points during the lockout negotiations. The Miami Heat issue put small-market teams on notice about keeping their superstars. They feared the extend-and-trades that allowed Carmelo Anthony to leverage a trade out of Denver to New York, the place he […]

The Miami Heat are 2-1 favorites to win the NBA title.  And when you’ve got a team that good, it stands to reason that guys looking for new homes in the NBA will want to come knock on your door.   Still more than a week from the Dec. 9 post-lockout start of the NBA […]

If you are a Dallas Mavericks fan and looking to score a ticket to opening night to see the Mavs unveil their NBA title banner and receive their rings, get ready to shell out some major cash. Mavericks tickets rank (via New York Daily News) number one when it comes to a single-game home ticket […]

These last twelve months have made it abundantly clear that the NBA is business first, and basketball second. Despite that, there are some moments that have made us forget – if only for an hour or two. They are those moments that we fall in love with as basketball fans. Not fans of a particular team, […]

I know what you’re thinking, surely the headline is incorrect. Or maybe Shaq is being sarcastic. He’s really paying a colleague a compliment? Apparently, Shaq really does mean it. And even though there has been plenty of bickering between the two over the years, before and after Shaq was traded away to the Miami Heat, […]

As teams prepare to usher in training camps with the NBA lockout nearing its end, one player the Portland Trail Blazers and their fans will be looking to is Greg Oden. I don’t need to rehash his situation. By now you all know what’s been going on with the health of his knee and inability to stay […]

If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to compete for a title this year, they’re going to need a new point guard. Derek Fisher is getting up there, and there’s no doubt that all the NBA negotiations took a few years off his life. So once the big free agent frenzy begins, who will they […]

The lockout is not officially over yet. But with a tentative agreement in place and the season scheduled to begin December 25, the league has to move pretty quickly to get a schedule set in stone. With that, the league has already announced the layout for the 66-game schedule. Each team will still play four […]

It’s a good question from the All-Star Forward Zach Randolph.  Why aren’t his Memphis Grizzlies playing on Christmas Day?   I’m not necessarily saying there is anything wrong with Boston, New York, Miami, Dallas, Chicago and LA all being featured in the December 25th triple-header to open this NBA season, but I really can’t wait […]

Perhaps one team ecstatic the end of the NBA lockout is near has to the Dallas Mavericks. Had it not been for the lockout, by now the reigning NBA champions would have received their rings and witness a championship banner be hoisted to the rafters to commemorate their accomplishment. It’s the pinnacle of an NBA […]

I’m going to guess the New York Daily News had this cover queued up for some time now. New season, new NBA player not on the Knicks wearing a Knicks jersey on the cover of a New York periodical. Photoshopping just never gets old for some people. I suppose the thought was that as soon as […]

Washington Wizards’ free-agent Yi Jianlian is currently living the expression, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” Yi has been playing with Guangdong of the Chinese Basketball Association during the lockout and in a recent game against Beijing, suffered an injury to his right knee (via NBA247365.com) and will sit […]

There’s a lot of information flying around today now that the lockout is, in theory, over.  Here’s a look at some of the finer points of the deal and how it might affect certain teams. Exceptions: The mid-level exception will be $5 million per year for up to four years for teams over the cap […]

The NBA is back, with a tentative deal in place that will create a 66 game season that starts on Christmas.  We’ve seen shortened NBA seasons before because of a lockout.  That 50-game season back in 1999 was less than spectacular.  There were a lot of injuries and lots of bad basketball. It did not […]