Since Monta Ellis entered the league six years ago, we’ve seen a lot of talent and a lot that will make you shake your head. Ellis has spent his entire NBA career with the Golden State Warriors, he should be the leader of the team but his attitude has kept him out of that position. […]

Just because Chris Paul is trying to force his way out of small market New Orleans before his contract expires does not mean he is a bad person. Not that anybody really thinks Chris is a bad dude, but if you did, best friend for life LeBron James wanted to remind you that he isn’t […]

If you were a kid, and in the day’s leading up to Christmas your parents told you that you were getting the new Kobe’s to celebrate on Christmas morning, how excited would you have been? Then, how devastated would you have eventually felt when you inevitably found out that those new Kobe’s where in fact […]

Nene is a nice player.  Last season he averaged near career highs of  14.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per game for the Denver Nuggets.  His PER was a career high 20.4, right in the Al Horford range and fifth among centers.  That season made him quite the sought-after commodity.  In fact, the New Jersey Nets […]

The Lakers are like Jaws every year. It might be unfair to put that characterization to something that is more of a perception. But the Lakers are always there beneath the deep blue sea of rumors, lurking, seemingly ready to strike at any moment. If what Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak is hinting at, I […]

Wendell Maxey is a featured sportswriter living abroad in Nuremberg, Germany after spending the past eight years covering the NBA and sports at large in New York City and Portland, Oregon.  A contributor writer for NBA.com and various newspapers in the States, Wendell has also appeared on NBA TV, NBA Radio on SIRIUS and ESPN Radio among […]

You might come across parking meters that last longer than the Eddy Curry experiment with the Miami Heat.  That’s because the ol’ pork chop ain’t exactly motoring up and down the hardwood. Curry, the Heat’s attempt at a reclamation project at center, missed his second consecutive practice Tuesday. He made it through his first workout […]

Dwight Howard said he wanted to be traded because Otis Smith didn’t make any of the moves he asked him to make.  Then he said he loves the city of Orlando and there’s no place he’d rather play out the rest of his career so long as the organization was willing to change. That was Sunday […]

Is the NBA really that short on quality centers? It must be because CBS Sports is reporting that the Golden State Warriors have signed Kwame Brown to a 1-year deal for $7 million. Yes, that Kwame Brown. This isn’t some young guy that you just haven’t heard of yet with coincidentally the same name, it’s […]

Tim Tebow-mania has swept through Denver, Colorado. The immaculate, unconventional quarterback has piqued the imagination of Denver sports fans as he has the Broncos hurdling toward an AFC West championship and the NFL Playoffs. His comebacks have the sports world buzzing and questioning everything they know about how to win in football. Tebow’s Broncos seemingly […]