The Oklahoma City Thunder are in the 2011 Western Conference Finals. A first for the franchise in Oklahoma but not for in its overall history. For those who do not know, the Thunder used to be known as the Seattle Supersonics and when the franchise was in Seattle, it made three appearances in the Western […]

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah likely didn’t learn his lesson from watching Kobe Bryant pay $100,000 in fines earlier this season. After getting called for his second foul midway through the first quarter in last night’s loss to the Miami Heat, Noah turned and hurled a gay slur at a heckler. “I apologize,” Noah said to […]

Derrick Rose was about open more eyes with one comment than he did with his entire MVP season’s worth of play.   When ESPN asked this question for its May 16th issue of ESPN The Magazine: “If 1 equals ‘What are PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs)’? and 10 equals ‘Everybody’s Juicing’ … How big of an […]

Eastern Conference Finals – Game 3: (1) Chicago Bulls vs. (2) Miami Heat, AmericanAirlines Arena Final Score: Heat 96, Bulls 85. After Chris Bosh scored a measly 10 points in game two, he made life a little harder for the Chicago Bulls, who had to try and defend Lebron James, Dwyane Wade and Bosh on […]

According to oregonlive.com, Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Rich Cho wanted to suspend Brandon Roy for comments he made during the playoffs: According to a well-placed source in the Blazers organization, an irritated Cho pushed for a suspension of three-time All-Star Brandon Roy for comments the guard made after Game 2 of Portland’s eventual first-round […]

The 2011 NBA Draft Combine is fully underway in Chicago and of course can be a great source of rumors heading into the NBA Draft. One of the more interesting rumors (via cleveland.com) is that the Milwaukee Bucks might be open to trading their point guard Brendon Jennings. Jennings averaged 16.2 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.8 […]

Yao Ming is trying to come back from a stress fracture in his left ankle that cost him all but five game last season.  He’s about five months removed from surgery to repair the ankle, and now he’s in the midst of a grueling rehab that may just be getting the best of him.  His […]

Despite his night-and-day play on the court, the Atlanta Hawks probably wouldn’t be making the playoffs without the play of their star Josh Smith. He is the Hawks’ main weapon on the court and he proved it in this past playoff run for Atlanta. However, could we have seen the last of Smith in an […]

Western Conference Finals – Game 3: (3) Dallas Mavericks vs. (4) Oklahoma City Thunder, Oklahoma City Arena Final Score: Mavericks, 93, Thunder 87. Despite trailing as much as 23 points in the game, the Thunder made a late game charge to close to gap to within five points. However, Dallas steadied the ship and answered […]

Here’s Kevin McHale’s coaching resume:   In 2004-05, he coached the final 31 games of the season for the Minnesota Timberwolves after he, as VP of Basketball Operations, fired Flip Saunders.  He went 19-12 to finish the season.  In 2008-09, he coached the final 63 games of the season for the Minnesota Timberwoves after he, […]

In 2010, Pau Gasol came up huge and dismissed talk of “being soft” when he dropped 19 points and 18 rebounds in a Game Seven comeback win for the Los Angeles Lakers over the Boston Celtics.  But as this year’s playoffs showed, Pau didn’t “dismiss” the soft talk as much as he temporarily muted it. […]

It was business as usual as the NBA held its 2011 NBA Draft Lottery. The Draft will happen on schedule because the collective bargaining agreement does not expire until after that. But who gets picked in the draft and how that plays into whatever free agent plans teams have will be greatly affected by what […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the 2011 Draft Lottery on Tuesday and the safe assumption is that they will take Kyrie Irving with the number one pick. It says something about this draft. The presumptive number one pick played all of 11 games last year — even though he averaged 17.5 points per game and shot […]

ESPN’s Player X has written about everything from the art of trash-talking to maintaining a marriage. In his latest column, which appeared in ESPN The Magazine today, the anonymous NBA player says he’ll be headed overseas if there is a lockout. “There are a lot of reasons the NBA should do everything in it’s power […]