It must be tough to be a Washington Wizards fan. You’ve seen your team win at home only five times this year and eight times total. They’re not really showing any signs of improving and you have to be wishing the season was over so you could just get to your lottery pick and try again next […]

 It was only a matter of time before the whole NFL investigation with the New Orleans Saints “bounty” sweepstakes carried over to the NBA, and leave it to Charles Barkley to speak out on the pay-for-pain program. During a recent radio interview with Dan Patrick, Barkley admitted he once put a $5,000 bounty on a […]

By now you know the whole “Linsanity” wave that came crashing on the New York Knicks’ and NBA. Point guard Jeremy Lin’s sudden rise after playing in the D-League and bounced around the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets captured the attention of fans, the media and the basketball world. Oh and […]

The Bloguin NBA network of blogs continues to provide some of the best NBA analysis around the Internet. Here are a few hot topics sure to wet your appetite for all things NBA. Trade Street Post: With the Charlotte Bobcats having a horrendous season, Bryan Beck asks how does one define success in the NBA. […]

When you change your name to Metta World Peace, you give up your right to be taken seriously. Just like Chad OchoCinco before him, your name becomes a big joke. But you can rise above the derision if you get people talking about you in a positive light instead of the little sideshow you have […]

You see them slapped everywhere in sports, even on the jerseys during the World Cup, the most popular sporting event across the globe.  With the exception of the WNBA and the MLS, advertisements have stayed off of American pro sports jerseys but a change could be coming.  John Lombardo and Terry Lefton with The Sports […]

The Houston Rockets lost their last three games, and have dropped five of their last 10 overall. But, they’re still clinging onto the 8th seed out West, and they’re still a team who’s overachieved to get there after being hosed out of Pau Gasol to start the season. If they end up making the playoffs […]

PER, offensive ratings, effective field goal percentage, true shooting percentage. If you are an NBA fan or blogger, I am sure you know what the above vernacular is in reference to — advanced stats. They swim around your mind making you feel real smart or thinking you might need to enroll into college and earn […]

Keith Smart took over Sacramento under some very strange circumstances. The very public spat between Paul Westphal and DeMarcus Cousins eventually cost the veteran coach his job and brought Keith Smart back to the forefront for his second head coaching sting in the league. The Kings were not going to blow the doors open and […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Don’t foul the 3 point shooter!! Last night’s NBA action made fans of fundamental basketball cringe.  Over the course of about an hour, in three separate NBA games, I saw about four or five guys get […]

New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez has played in five of the team’s 38 games this season.  The question now is whether he’s going to play in any more games for the Nets now that he’s been declared out for three weeks with a sprained ankle.  The Nets got a rare dose of positive injury news […]

We have all seen that scene from Seabiscuit, or maybe experienced that feeling. That desire to one-up everyone and look deep into an opponent’s eyes before racing past them, leaving only a trail of dust behind. That is the kind of rivalry that re-ignited the NBA in the 1980s between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. […]

At the start of the season, the Portland Trail Blazers were riding high. For December and the first half of January, they were fighting with Oklahoma City and Denver for the Northwest Division lead, were relatively healthy and their new guys, Raymond Felton and Jamal Crawford were starting to mesh with the rest of the […]