0 comments by Joe Webb on 7/21/2015
The Ants Alumni have championship blood. The team, coming out of the Midwest region of The Basketball Tournament, features a roster of players that have appeared in back-to-back NBA D-League Finals for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, capturing the title in 2014, and that winning formula makes the Ants a serious threat to the Notre […]
0 comments by Bryan Gibberman on 7/20/2015
With the majority of the moves from the NBA offseason all wrapped up, I’ve decided to give some sort of award to all 30 teams. We will go in A-B-C order. Atlanta Hawks Best Sequel Award (or so they hope) The problem with going for sequels is the second movie typically isn’t as good as […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
At first glance, Josh Smith — the new bargain-basement addition to the Los Angeles Clippers’ roster — won’t be able to shoot down his team’s chances in Game 6 of a conference semifinal series. Then again, what’s true at first glance with Josh Smith — and other players like him — is that while he […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
After two DUI arrests in six months, Ty Lawson watched his level of value plummet. So, the Houston Rockets decided to get him for a relatively cheap price… at least in terms of raw numbers. A common refrain from many analysts and pundits on Sunday night after news of the Lawson deal broke was this: […]
0 comments by Jared Mintz on 7/19/2015
New York Knicks fans’ dreams of finally bringing a championship back home to Madison Square Garden were dashed Thursday night, when the team was eliminated from the Summer League Playoffs in embarrassing fashion. Now take a deep breathe Knicks fans, as I’m embellishing for the loathers of the group. The Knicks first loss of the Kristaps […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/17/2015
We conclude our NBA schedule series this week with a positive example of how a lack of division-heavy scheduling can influence a team’s season. Earlier in the week, we examined why the Boston Celtics face such a tough path in the Eastern Conference, despite residing in the comparatively soft Atlantic Division. Boston will play just […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/16/2015
On Wednesday, we wrote about why the NBA schedule needs to be reworked. The specific point of emphasis put forth in the piece was that only 16 of 82 games — under 20 percent — are played within a division. Such a reality greatly diminishes the significance of being slotted in a particular division. It’s […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/15/2015
This past season, a lot of debate emerged in the NBA about the seeding system in the playoffs, which protected division winners and was not arranged in a conference-blind 1-through-16 format. These debates were important, and public discussion did create enough pressure to make the NBA reconsider the structure of its playoff seeding system. The […]
0 comments by Bart D on 7/12/2015
Hedge our screen on Twitter @CrossoverNBA As much as a long intro to the column would be reader-friendly and what not, the heck with it, and let’s just get to the main course, shall we? 5. New York Knicks: I get it. You’ve clicked “off” of this column at this point. But I commend the […]
0 comments by Jared Mintz on 7/10/2015
With all eyes glued to “Emojigate” on Wednesday afternoon, the Orlando Magic announced that they’d be resting their three most important Summer League players for the final two games of the tournament. Arguably the MVP of the Orlando Summer League – don’t forget, we have summer action taking place in Utah and Las Vegas this […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 7/9/2015
Sometimes in life, a contentious issue leaves no room for two competing viewpoints to share the victory platform. Some issues resolve themselves in a way that only one perspective can be right, allowable, or both. We see this in everyday life; we know what a “one-way” issue feels like. The saga of DeAndre Jordan and […]
0 comments by Bart D
Hit us up on Twitter @CrossoverNBA Often, we ask people who are famous to do stuff there’s no chance in hell we’d be able to do in the same situation. I always say about the Malice at the Palace to those who criticized Ron Artest for going into the stands: “I’ll come chuck a beer […]
0 comments by Tony Xypteras
This has been a solid-but-unspectacular moratorium period for the Boston Celtics. They managed to resign their valuable ‘young veterans’, Jae Crowder and Jonas Jerebko, to fair market contracts. They also brought in Amir Johnson on what some may view as a slight overpay, but considering the fact that he is going to bring Boston precisely […]
0 comments by Joe Webb
Before the New Orleans Pelicans get started in the Las Vegas Summer League starting on July 10, they had to take care of some very important business first, like signing franchise cornerstone Anthony Davis to the richest contract in NBA history — a five-year extension worth an estimated $145 million. Davis will be 28-years-young when […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 7/8/2015
It is a weird time in the calendar year to be a sports fan. Many are still coming down from the highs that were the NBA Finals, the United States Women’s Soccer Team winning the World Cup, and some other — eh — notable (Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, I am looking at you!) sporting […]
