0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/9/2016
Remember the month of January, a time when the New York Knicks knew how to play basketball? The calendar, on March 10, says January existed 40 days ago. It might as well be 400 days, because the Knicks’ season has become interminably long. Since that point in the season when the future of this organization actually […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It wasn’t the day the music died — Tuesday was the day the Magic died. Many California dreams have been born in Los Angeles, but for an Eastern Conference team on a late-season West Coast swing, visions of an NBA playoff berth came to rest against the Lakers. It’s time to think about the future […]
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 7: Kawhi Leonard #2 of the San Antonio Spurs handles the ball against Paul George #13 of the Indiana Pacers in the first half of the game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 7, 2016 in Indianapolis, Indiana. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using the photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D on 3/7/2016
It felt at times like a weekly golf league where you draw the guy who’s a +25 and you have to give him strokes on every hole, but so long as you don’t intentionally start hitting them in the ravine, you should win the match. Then, you go on jacking 3-foot tap in putts, shank […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
College basketball teams — not being as responsible as NBA teams — blow big leads all the time. Over the past week of zany conference tournament action, Austin Peay overcame a 19-point second-half deficit to win the Ohio Valley Tournament. Northern Iowa led Evansville by 17 in the second half of the Missouri Valley Tournament […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/6/2016
It is an immutable fact of NBA life: The team with LeBron James on it will always be a team drenched in drama. That the palace intrigues attached to any LeBron team are often created externally — by the press — is its own discussion. The business of sports blogging is such that high-profile figures […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/5/2016
The 2016 NBA season has been marked by a small cluster of teams at the top, a few especially bad teams at the bottom, and a broad, mushy middle that has not decided what it wants to be. That mushy middle was epitomized by the Memphis Grizzlies’ 94-88 win over the Utah Jazz on Friday […]
0 comments by Jovan Alford
Friday night, the San Antonio Spurs were not in action on the court, but they still made noise in the Association.
0 comments by John Cannon on 3/4/2016
Now that the Golden State Warriors have defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder for the third time in a month, it’s time to take a look at where these teams are headed, and how those destinations could be altered by the free agency of one Kevin Durant. First, that steam engine you just heard blow by […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/3/2016
In 2011, the Butler Bulldogs defeated Billy Donovan’s Florida Gators to reach the Final Four. That evening in New Orleans, the winning coach said that Donovan outcoached him. Brad Stevens enjoyed a victory celebration with his Butler players, but he said that he didn’t get the better of Donovan in that day’s coaching clash. A […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It’s not wrong to be extremely concerned about the Oklahoma City Thunder following Wednesday night’s ugly loss against the Los Angeles Clippers. The unvarnished truth of a Grade-A gack attack offers more than enough reason to question the future of this franchise. Facts – presented simply – represent the best editorial commentary about the wayward […]
0 comments by Bart D
Sometimes, you spend years flirting with the girl and eventually, after a few crusty relationships, she comes available and isn’t the firecracker she was at 22, but it doesn’t matter because you still have those eyes for her all the same. Ty Lawson’s acrimonious-at-best stop in Houston, which happened this past off season with much […]
In this Nov. 24, 2015 photo, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) gestures during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Oakland, Calif. Green pounds his chest with his right fist and roars toward the rafters after big plays, mouth agape. Over all of the tough years and long odds, he has earned it and Jason Richardson loves seeing that display of emotion. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
0 comments by John Cannon
The reason I have been saying for a month or so now that I believe the Warriors will break the NBA record for wins rather easily was again exemplified at Oracle Arena Tuesday night. The Warriors win games they shouldn’t win. On Tuesday night they beat the Atlanta Hawks 109-105 in overtime. They accomplished this […]
NEW ORLEANS, LA – JANUARY 25: Ty Lawson #3 of the Houston Rockets goes to the basket against Dante Cunningham #44 of the New Orleans Pelicans on January 25, 2016 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2016 NBAE (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D on 3/2/2016
Someone put sugar in the Rockets’ gas tank from the beginning, and it sputtered somewhere before it even got out of the atmosphere. Ty Lawson reached a buyout settlement Monday, meaning a productive point guard is on the market late in the season free to go where he wants. Lawson is not the easiest piece […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Coaches, sports psychologists, executives — anyone invested in seeing athletes perform better — would tell you: Basketball is basketball. It’s the same game anywhere you play it. The court’s the same. The basketball is the same. Free throws are still 15-foot shots. Three-pointers are still 23 feet and 9 inches, except in the corners. Switching, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
DeAndre Jordan. Andre Drummond. Dwight Howard. These and other NBA big men aren’t failed basketball players by any means. They are, however, failures as free throw shooters. It’s a pretty big deal when — under NBA rules that are likely to be revised in the coming offseason — Team B can purposefully foul so that […]
