0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/6/2014
The ballad of Royce White continues in the NBA. The very talented forward has been a mystery in the NBA as he has battled his anxiety issues and struggled to make his way onto an NBA court. The Rockets, who drafted him 16th in the 2012 Draft, gave up on him after he spent a […]
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The Magic are celebrating their 25th Anniversary season this year. It has included several "Legends Nights" where all-time great Magic players like Tracy McGrady and Anfernee Hardaway have reutnred to orlando to receive accolades from the Orlando crowd. It has also included short video tributes for former Magic players involved with current NBA teams. These […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/5/2014
The Pacers trailed the Warriors by 12 points with 5:33 left in the fourth quarter. Indiana proceeded to burn off 12 straight points in the next four minutes and make things a game. Klay Thompson saved the Warriors with a step-back jumper for the win with 0.6 seconds left. {youtube}TxS6H5lswoo{/youtube} In that stretch of four […]
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Gordon hasn't played much for Charlotte this season, and clearly the Bobcats needed to rid themselves of his expiring deal The Bobcats, who are hanging onto a playoff spot in the weak Eastern Conference by a very thin thread, allowed LeBron James to score a career-high 61 points last night in a 124-107 drubbing at […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/4/2014
For much of the regular season, the Hawks were the “other” team playing better than .500 in the Eastern Conference (outside the Heat and the Pacers). Despite letting Josh Smith walk in free agency and seeing Al Horford go down with injury, the Hawks kept plugging away. They were not one of the teams allegedly […]
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LeBron James scored 61 points in a game against the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday. That is his career high. And all that needs to be said to preface some highlights of the night: {youtube}K0fXLT_w2dk{/youtube} James' final stat line reads as follows: 61 points, 22-for-33 shooting, 8-for-10 shooting from beyond the arc, 9-for-12 shooting from the […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/3/2014
Yao Ming's career is a what-if question. The biggest what if Yao is afraid to answer is where he would fit in the current NBA. Shaquille O'Neal is famous for lamenting the end of the traditional center. Yao is too as he looks at the landscape of the current NBA. And since Yao would be […]
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Reports came out this weekend suggesting Isiah Thomas was in consideration to become the next general manager of the Pistons. That report appears to be falsely flat. That collective sound is Pistons fans saying "Phew." Vincent Goodwill of The Detroit News reports that the only conversation Pistons owner Tom Gores has had with Thomas is […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/2/2014
Divisive. Renegade. Avant garde. Ground breaker. Unique. Brilliant. Breath-taking. Fantastic. Those are just a small selection of the adjectives anyone could use to describe Allen Iverson. The man was simply electric and defined the post-Michael Jordan NBA for the cultural shift he represented and the way he dominated the games with his scoring ability. Saturday […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 3/1/2014
In all likelihood your first basketball hoop was a plastic Little Tikes hoop with some sort of rubber or Nerf ball. You would happily travel and softly place the ball into the net as your parents cheered. It is one of the great enduring joys. You lower the rim and anything seems posible. You know […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 2/28/2014
Marriage equality is the civil rights fight of the millenials' generation. There are simply too many headlines in both national news and sports news to ignore the cultural shift that has occurred. The old guard continues to fight it with arguments that look flimsier by the second. The Winter Olympics in Sochi were clouded by […]
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When Derrick Rose first got injured, the Bulls were sent scrambling to find a backup point guard. They tried Nate Robinson, Kirk Hinrich and Marco Belinelli in the role, but none of those were long-term solutions. Belinelli signed with the Spurs and was a more of a shooting guard anyway. Robinson moved on to sign […]
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If Winning Time proved anything, it is that basketball is an operatic performance. And whenever an NBA player dons a mask — whether it be Alonzo Mourning or Richard Hamilton or Kyrie Irving — it conjures up images of The Phantom of the Opera. But it is hard to look menacing wearing that clear mask […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 2/27/2014
You are not Nate Robinson. You cannot jump tall buildings in a single bound — or at least Dwight Howard. You cannot drop 40 off the bench at the drop of a hat. You cannot make being short seem so cool. Robinson might be out for the rest of the year with a torn ACL, […]
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Adam Silver has been commissioner for nearly a month so far. Mark Cuban already likes what he is seeing. Silver has taken some quick steps to make his impact in the league as the head man. Namely, he is making officiating more transparent to the rest of the league. The officials has long been a […]
