You know it’s that time of the year when the NBA season is winding down. The playoffs teams are down to just a handful, the Draft Lottery is next week, and the NBA Draft will soon follow. Another sign of another season of pro-basketball is nearing its end is the NBA Summer League in Las […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Miami advances The Miami Heat are not a perfect team, but they have certain advantages that, when opportunities to exploit them are presented, make them virtually unbeatable.  One of those opportunities comes when you turn the […]

These are the months coaches sweat the most. Rick Carlisle and Larry Drew got taken care of despite first round exits and questions (certainly about Drew) about their team’s long-term futures. Stan Van Gundy is no longer twisting in the wind and he is looking forward to a short (or long) time off. There are […]

Running down the early list of MVP candidates for the Playoffs, Russell Westbrook’s name has to be near the top. No “made up” disputes this year have sullied the run the Thunder have made into the Western Conference Finals. Oklahoma City’s two stars are sharing the scoring load and taking every advantage of their talents […]

I wrote yesterday about the possibility of Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum playing somewhere new next year. He clearly isn’t happy in L.A., however with his low level of team dedication, I doubt he’ll be happy anywhere. But hey, a change of scenery couldn’t hurt. This past season, as the trade deadline approached, there […]

Are bloggers allowed to paraphrase U2 or can I only quote groups like Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Tribe Called Quest or solo acts like Talib Kweli?  Either way, U2 just happened in this post. It’s also how Los Angeles Lakers fans must feel after seeing there team get embarrassed in the second round of the playoffs […]

Oklahoma City Thunder’s James Harden is playing in the Western Conference Finals, is a member of one of the best teams in the NBA and was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year so how can it get better for him? How about an entire cake made in his image? Well that’s exactly what […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  There was no game last night… I REPEAT… NO GAME LAST NIGHT!!! That… thing… that involved five guys in green shirts and five guys in white shirts running up and down a large wooden floor was […]

The Miami Heat are up 3-2 in their semi finals series versus the Pacers but heading into Game 6, Miami will be a bit thin in the front court. Miami will be without Udonis Haslem and Dexter Pittman with both serving suspensions and not to mention will continue to be without Chris Bosh who is […]

It didn’t take too long for the NBA to suspend Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem and Dexter Pittman for the over-the-top hits on Pacers’ Tyler Hansbrough and Lance Stephenson respectively. Haslem will be suspended for one game (Game 6) for a very hard foul on Hansbrough while Pittman will be suspended for three games for pretty […]

There was a time a few weeks ago when the Miami Heat seemed to feel that the Indiana Pacers were just another bump in the road to their ultimate goal. Just another team that stood idly in the way or their coronation. Maybe that is just how the national media felt. After a bruising and […]

The NBA Awards season is wrapping up and there have certainly been some odd votes cast (Josh Selby getting a third place Rookie Of The Year Vote comes to mind).  Today the NBA released its All-Defensive First and Second Teams, and, at first glance, it mostly made sense, but then it didn’t (H/T to Ben […]

The Miami Heat-Indiana Pacers Game 5 has been full of antics. Whether it be Lance Stevenson giving Miami the choke sign, Juwan Howard taking exception to Lance’s act, Danny Granger’s tough guy act to the plenty of hard fouls in Game 5. But perhaps this could have been the proverbial cherry on top of the […]

Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown Oklahoma City has been living up to that Energy portion of its name all year long. Thunder fans have that place rocking through television screens all over the country, and have done so ever since OKC first entered the playoffs a couple years ago. With Kevin Durant’s first trip to […]