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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8E_IPzBZE
Welcome back to one of the NBA’s best mascots.
Still looking for the video, but SportsCenter did a nice feature on the Gorilla in Phoenix and the mascot recruiting pipeline from Arizona State gymnastics. It was a fun report, so watch ESPN for the replays.
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Oh! My! Goodness!
With the NCAA tournament fully underway, some of you may have missed this beauty courtesy of Bobcats’ Michael-Kidd Gilchrist. This weekend the Cats and Blazers faced off and MKG decided to absolutely murder Myers Leonard with a sick facial!
No words can describe the devastation so enjoy and RIP Meyers.
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/23/2014
Before NBA fans and teams waiting for the NBA Draft could blink, the top three prospects for this year’s NBA Draft are gone. Duke’s Jabari Parker, Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart and Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid are out of the NCAA Tournament in the first weekend with only Kansas reaching the third round of […]
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Thunder fans got a scare recently when guard Russell Westbrook suffered a knee injury versus the Raptors. Considering Westbrook has been dealing with knee issues which caused him to miss most of the Thunder’s run last season, seeing him go down again with another knee injury would have been a tough pill to swallow as […]
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Pacers’ Andrew Bynum is out for the season with a knee injury. I know shocking. Yet despite being out for the season Bynum still had time to get a haircut at halftime of a recent Indiana game and continued to show just how much he has not matured. One might say, “Well that’s Bynum,” […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/22/2014
The most heated race in the NBA is not occurring at the top of the standings, nor in the middle. No, it is down there at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. It is kind of hard to see with all the losses that have piled up for their respective teams. Michael Carter-Williams and Victor […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrmoFXuMNk
Well this was probably something the Thunder did not want to see.
Since last season and this season, Russell Westbrook has been dealing with knee injuries. Just this season, he underwent two surgeries to correct his injuries and with OKC chasing the No. 1 spot in the West, having him succumb to another injury is something the team does not need.
During the third quarter of last night’s Thunder-Raptors matchup, Westbrook pulled up limp after tweaking his right knee after taking a hit from Kyle Lowry.
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/21/2014
Kevin Durant’s final line in a 119-118 overtime win over the Raptors: 51 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists, 15/32 FGs, 7/12 3FGs, 12/19 FTs.
Simply amazing.
Some have suggested that this season, because of the perceived strength of the 2014 NBA Draft class, more teams than usual have tossed in the towel in favor of the draft. However, the truth is if you look at the last five years of NBA basketball, this year’s standings are not that far off from the norm and are not nearly as bad, especially at the bottom, as some teams have been in the not so distant past.
| 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | |
| 14 | Phoenix (.574) | Utah (.524) | Houston (.515) | Houston (.524) | Houston (.512) |
| 13 | Minnesota (.515) | Dallas (.500) | Phoenix (.500) | Phoenix (.488) | Toronto (.488) |
| 12 | Denver (.456) | Philadelphia (.415) | Milwaukee (.470) | Utah (.476) | Memphis (.488) |
| 11 | New York (.412) | Toronto (.415) | Portland (.424) | Golden State (.439) | New Orleans (.451) |
| 10 | New Orleans (.403) | Portland (.402) | Minnesota (.394) | Milwaukee (.427) | Indiana (.390) |
| 9 | Cleveland (.382) | Minnesota (.378) | Detroit (.379) | Charlotte (.415) | New York (.354) |
| 8 | Detroit (.373) | Detroit (.354) | Toronto (.348) | LA Clippers (.390) | LA Clippers (.354) |
| 7 | Sacramento (.353) | Washington (.354) | Golden State (.348) | Detroit (.366) | Detroit (.329) |
| 6 | Boston (.333) | Sacramento (.341) | New Jersey (.333) | New Jersey (.293) | Philadelphia (.329) |
| 5 | LA Lakers (.328) | New Orleans (.329) | Sacramento (.333) | Sacramento (.293) | Golden State (.317) |
| 4 | Utah (.319) | Phoenix (.305) | Cleveland (.318) | Washington (.280) | Washington (.317) |
| 3 | Orlando (.275) | Cleveland (.293) | New Orleans (.318) | Toronto (.268) | Sacramento (.305) |
| 2 | Philadelphia (.221) | Charlotte (.256) | Washington (.303) | Cleveland(.232) | Minnesota (.183) |
| 1 | Milwaukee (.191) | Orlando (.244) | Charlotte (.106) | Minnesota (.207) | New Jersey (.146) |
*** Based on NBA standings and games played through 3/19/14
h/t Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders
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The Knicks are on a roll winning several games and look poised to make a late season surge.
Yet despite winning and possibly making the playoffs, Carmelo Anthony decided to muck things up during a timeout by dropping the F-Bomb on coach Mike Woodson who was just simply coaching.
The game was in hand for New York as they were going to beat Indiana. With just seconds left on the game-clock, Woodson was going over the timeout situation when Melo cut him off and decided to tell his coach exactly how he feels. Check out Woodson’s reaction. Priceless.
“One player, one knucklehead from another team. He’s a knucklehead. So I just let it go. Again, that goes back to controlling what you can control. That’s how I conduct myself just being professional.”
-Jason Collins on the lone homosexual taunt and slur he received since signing with the Nets this year (h/t Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News)
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Yahoo Sources: After five weeks on sidelines, Steve Nash expected to return to Lakers lineup on Friday. http://t.co/BVDf4qcicE
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 21, 2014
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0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/20/2014
Mention the Charlotte Bobcats and you are likely still to get some odd stares. Because of some historically bad seasons the past three years, the Bobcats have become synonymous with the ultimate in NBA incompetence. Worse, the Bobcats flubbed their high lottery picks and seemingly keeping them in the bottom of the league. A few […]
“I struggled to prove that I belonged. My first couple years in the NBA, my fear was that I was going to go to the D-League – and maybe never get back to the NBA. I was picked 24th and that’s not the cushion that a lottery pick gets in the NBA. You get a few chances, and then you’re done. Then you’re just a label, never to be a frontline guy.
But I didn’t want to be a backup. I hated that label. I did not want to be a backup in this league. I wasn’t going to settle for it, and I think it rubbed people the wrong way. But I didn’t want to be labeled as a journeyman, or a guy who has the talent, but just can’t get it together. I wanted the label of a guy who’s a winner. That’s the most important label you can have in this league.”
-Raptors guard Kyle Lowry on what he had to prove this season in leading the Raptors renaissance (h/t Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports)
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Year after year and season after season, there always seems an NBA player will announce he is working on a new career — rap artist. From Shaq, Allen Iverson, Tony Parker to Stephen Jackson, all have attempted to have a rap career outside of basketball and have all had underwhelming results. Well, except Jackson. He […]
