After the Los Angeles Lakers held the Denver Nuggets 16 points under their season scoring average of 104 points per game in Game 1 of their seven game series and Andrew Bynum had one of the best defensive playoff performances of all time, Nuggets head coach George Karl says it was all because Bynum cheated. […]

As quickly as Anthony Davis shot up from a six-foot tall wing playing freshman in High School, expectations of what the now 6-foot-10 big man from Kentucky could soon be on the next level are rising even quicker. In a recent Sports Illustrated article, Sam Amick quoted one Western Conference General Manager who said that […]

Tony Parker scored 28 points and dished out eight assists while shooting 10 for 19 from the floor in San Antonio’s 106-91 Game One victory over Utah. It was exactly the start the Spurs expected and exactly what the Jazz did not want to happen. Parker and the Spurs looked like San Antonio from its […]

Amar’e Stoudemire losing a fight with a fire extinguisher was the latest turn in what’s been a really weird season for the New York Knicks.  From their awful start, to “Linsanity”, to ‘Melo going to hero to villain back to hero (and getting a coach to quit in the process) in approximately 30 days, Gotham […]

Former Chicago Bulls player Scottie Pippen just went all Knute Rockne on Bulls fans everywhere. And it wasn’t good enough. Instead of dropping the notorious “win one for the gipper” speech before Game 2 against the Philadelphia 76ers, the former Bulls all-star and Basketball Hall of Famer asked Chicago’s fan base and entire locker room […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  The Nuggets get closer… but…. They’re just not good enough to beat the Lakers.  The playoffs are all about matchups, and these are some tough matchups for the Nuggets.  All the double teaming of Bynum worked […]

This season for the New York Knicks has been one to forget for the most part. Aside from “Linsanity,” the Knicks’ season has been mired with injuries to key players such as Carmelo Anthony, Jeremy Lin, Amar’e Stoudemire, coaching change, and even Amar’e resorting to stupidity (punching glass on a fire extinguisher cover) in the […]

Playoff series are as much about what happens between games as they are about what happens during the game. This is where the nuances of a Playoff series are worked out and coaches prove their real value. They adjust and tinker with their game-plans to give their team new ways to put players in the […]

The Memphis Grizzlies Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph are better playoff basketball players than their Los Angeles Clippers counterparts DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin. I’m not talking statistically, or over the course of their careers, or anything like that either. I’m just saying I’d rather have both Gasol and/or Randolph if I had to win […]

For a while there, it sure sounded like Deron Williams was going to bolt from the Nets as fast as he could.  But things may be changing. 

Kevin Garnett has a way of getting under his opponent’s skin. It is part of his psychological warfare on his opponents. It has what has made him great and what has made him hated. Ivan Johnson became a household name (sort of) after a big game on national TV. The TNT crew loved his tenacity […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder rallied in Game 1 to secure the win over the defending NBA champions Dallas Mavericks thanks to Kevin Durant’s last second shot. But though Durant played the role of hero versus Dallas in Game 1, it still took a team effort to secure the win. Thunder’s Nick Collison provided toughness in […]

The reports are still sketchy, but it appears Amar’e Stoudemire punched through a pane of glass after the New York Knicks dropped Game 2 of their series with the Miami Heat.  Here is the relevant information, via the writers who were there and their Twitter accounts.