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Everyone at Crossover Chronicles is really excited for this upcoming NBA Finals rematch between the Heat and the Spurs. Game One tips off tonight at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. But there are a lot of questions that need answering beforehand and a lot of storylines to watch. Yesterday we took a look at the […]
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Outside of the fact that they are both highly successful NBA teams in the 2014 NBA Finals, there are not many similarities between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat. The Spurs, led by the steely and ruthlessly smart Gregg Popovich, have long been a bastion of NBA success, winning four championships since 1999. […]
Things will be different now for Wade and the Heat without LeBron James. Photo by Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
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Everyone at Crossover Chronicles is really excited for this upcoming NBA Finals rematch between the Heat and the Spurs. Game One tips off tonight at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. But there are a lot of questions that need answering beforehand and a lot of storylines to watch. Yesterday we took a look at the […]
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0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 6/4/2014
Everyone at Crossover Chronicles is really excited for this upcoming NBA Finals rematch between the Heat and the Spurs. Game One tips off Thursday night at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. But there are a lot of questions that need answering beforehand and a lot of storylines to watch. The first storyline to watch is […]
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Shaquille O’Neal has been in some truly, truly awful movies. He is not ashamed of it either. He said of his role in Kazaam that it did not matter how bad the movie was — and it was awful — but that people still talked about it one way or the other. O’Neal’s acting exploits […]
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We know that Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh will be key to this series. They are the stars and the guys that the Spurs and Heat will turn to game after game. The defenses will be locked in on these guys. As it goes with every series, […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 6/3/2014
Ever wanted to be one of the best mascots in the NBA? You now have your chance thanks to this latest job posting with the NBA: Basketball Jobs : The Official NBA Team Jobs Board via kwout These jobs open up as someone has to be the man in the mask entertaining everyone at NBA […]
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The WWE rolled into Indianapolis’ Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Monday night for Raw. And the WWE being the WWE, it needed a reason for the fans to hate their heels and love their baby faces.
This time around, it was a wrestler coming out in a Lance Stephenson jersey talking a whole bunch of junk and admitting that LeBron James is the best player in the world and the Pacers are a losing team. That did not go over well.
When it came time for the “Stephenson” to show his skills, the Big Show had him blowing in his ear and flopping all over the place.
Chris Copeland was not amused.
[h/t William Lou of The Score]
Gregg Popovich motivated his team by showing them their failure in Game Six. Photo by Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports
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Gregg Popovich’s in-game interviews are often terse and reveal far less information than even the usual in-game interview provides. This has become his schtick and it is his way of showing up the NBA and their media requirements for coaches. Popovich sees, really, all media obligations it seems as pointless and distracting from that over-arching […]
“Probably the biggest reality check I’m in the NBA was in practice. That was probably the biggest ones. There would be a day, Perk, he was there. And we were like scrimmaging or whatever and we kinda got into it like we clashed. I’m innocent, I didn’t do anything, I accidently hit him. And then like, he turned around and elbowed me in the ribs and I’m like ‘oh my God’ (holding ribs). Then he just yelled at me: “I’m the only silverback!” I was like “What the…?” So that was a big check, it was like, “We got some animals in the NBA.”
—Thunder center Steven Adams as told to Anthony Slater of NewsOK.com
It is good to know Kendrick Perkins is good for something.
Adams, a rookie from New Zealand, had a lot to learn about life in the NBA from Oklahoma City winters (termed “ridiculous” by the affable Kiwi) to tables on the team’s private charters.
What Adams became known for this year though was his ability to get under his opponent’s skins and become a pest and nuisance really without ever trying. It sounded like Kendrick Perkins gave him that lesson early on in the season.
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0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 6/2/2014
The Spurs and Heat have achieved something already that has not been accomplished for 16 years — an NBA Finals rematch. Yes, it is not easy to get back to the Finals in back-to-back years — the Heat are the first team since 1987 to make it four straight years when the Celtics accomplished that […]
“Friday morning was the big Sager meeting we’ve been waiting for with the doctors on whether or not he would need the bone marrow transplant and when that would be. We found out I was a 100% match last week, which is rare, so we were anticipating a transplant sometime next month. The meeting confirmed and my Dad will start another round of chemo next week. He’ll get a week off and then he’ll do one more week of chemo leading up to the transplant. The purpose of the chemo is basically shutdown his immune system so he can take mine and regrow a new one. It will be a long recovery and a tough one, but my Dad seems ready. His first chemo did it’s job and he’s A+ according to the doctors heading into this stage of the recovery.”
–Craig Sager Jr. to Stephen Anderson of Project Spurs
To say the least, this is very very good news in Sager’s recovery from the acute leukemia that has kept him off the sideline for the Playoffs. Meanwhile, his great foil, Gregg Popovich, is in the Finals where Sager, Jr. is predicting a Spurs win in six.
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Need to see these guys together @kevinlove @RajonRondo #collectingdimes #breakingbackboards pic.twitter.com/aJz1aEvEqJ
— Big Dub (@BigDub74) June 1, 2014
Hey, was that Kevin Love we saw at the Red Sox game yesterday? Is that Kevin Love shaking hands with Rajon Rondo?
Is that Kevin Love pretending to smoke a cigar with the Red Auerbach statue? Or sharing some words with former Minnesota Twin David Ortiz?
That is some vacation to Bean Town for the NBA’s most available trade target and that started the rumor mill flowing that Love was eyeing a move to Boston.
It is a pretty well-known secret that Love is not happy with the Timberwolves right now. They have failed to make the Playoffs in his five-year career. They have not really even sniffed it with injuries and poor decisions derailing them. With Love’s free agency coming up, Love has more or less privately put down an ultimatum for the team to turn that corner or expect him to walk in free agency.
That has the sharks circling. And his recent trip to Boston is not helping.
[h/t Chris Forsberg of ESPN Boston]
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The Spurs and Heat will once again face off in the NBA Finals but this time, the Spurs will be seeking a measure of payback after losing to Miami in last season’s Finals in seven games.
To break down the rematch, Bloguin’s own Project Spurs previewed the Finals. From who is the Spurs’ x-factor, which Miami player needs to step it up to what should the Spurs do to slow down LeBron James, the panel breaks it all down.
Check it out.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 6/1/2014
How old are the San Antonio Spurs? No, really — how old is this team? Tim Duncan, 38, continues to produce with the relentless consistency of his 20s, because his career has been nothing but a study in machine-like regularity at a high level of competition. Kawhi Leonard is only 22, but he often plays […]
