Starting 5

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Triple the fun Late Saturday night, basketball fans everywhere were captivated by a never-ending game. Louisville and Notre Dame went deep into the night with a five overtime thriller that included a seven-point comeback in […]

Sunday Notes and Statistics

Each weekend, we will highlight the trends, rumors and stories going around the NBA that we may miss during the busy week. Villanueva emerging? I noted this in the Starting 5 this morning after Charlie Villanueva hit the game-winning 3-pointer for Detroit in Milwaukee. Charlie Villanueva has had a rought four years. He signed a […]

Starting 5

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Here we stay The campaign to keep the Kings in Sacramento has been going strong for a few years now. Fans have seen the movements of the Maloofs and their mismanagement and worried that the […]

Saturday Notes and Statistics

Each weekend, we will highlight the trends, rumors and stories going around the NBA that we may miss during the busy week. Milwaukee Playoff hunting The Milwaukee Bucks are holding on to the eighth seed in the East but may be feeling the pressure to hold on and make the Playoffs for the first time […]

Starting 5

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Near embarrassment There have been plenty of lows in this strange season for the Lakers. There have been plenty of restarts for this team too. Plenty of avowals that the "season starts now" and that […]

Rumor: Spurs in hunt for Al Jefferson?

The Utah Jazz are stuck int he middle of the Western Conference and have a big decision to make. Al Jefferson is going to be a free agent this summer and the team is itching to develop younger players stuck behind him in the rotation like Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter. And there definitely seems […]

Howard clearly frustrated by injury talks

Whether it was because he felt called out by Kobe Bryant or not, Dwight Howard played last night in Boston. Howard was not much help, scoring nine points and grabbing nine rebounds as the Celtics crushed the Lakers  116-95. He might be playing through the pain like Kobe not so subtly suggested he should or […]

Starting 5

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: A lack of urgency Before Thursday's game between the Lakers and the Celtics, Kobe Bryant asked — through the media — for Dwight Howard to give some urgency and work harder to get back into […]

West weighs in on Lakers

Jerry West still believes. The former Laker and Lakers general manager — part of a few mega teams himself that disappointed by not winning a championship before finally breaking through in the early 1970s — believes the Lakers can pull themselves together and make a run for the Playoffs. a feat that is getting more […]

Rudy Gay is happy to be a Raptor

Rudy Gay became a Toronto Raptor last week and you would be excused for thinking that he had been liberated from a Grizzly prison upon his departure from Memphis, if you listened to his comments this week on Toronto radio. That is right: the man formerly known as the highest paid man on the Grizz […]

Starting 5

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Bring your A game There is one inevitable truth that every team has to remember during the course of an 82-game schedule. No matter what a team's record, they are still NBA players. They are […]

Benched Pau Gasol ponders his Lakers future

Gasol's Lakers future is, most likely, in a ton of jeopardy at the moment The 2012-13 season has been a disaster in many ways for the Los Angeles Lakers. First off, and most prevalent, is their record of 23-26 which is awful by Lakers standards and is completely not indicative of how talented they actually […]

Kaman has problems with NBA’s concussion test

Dallas Mavericks center Chris Kaman has been out for over a week after suffering a concussion during practice. He has not been able to do anything with the team since January 28 because he has not passed the NBA’s new concussion test. Clearly, having to sit out for this long is frustrating the Mavericks’ big man […]

Dwight Howard is not Dwight Howard anymore?

Dwight Howard's Twitter profile proclaims he is, After the Ring! The reality is, that should be changed to, Such drama! When you consider the Los Angeles Lakers season and all that drama that has ensued, you cannot help but look at the NBA calendar and notice that time could be running out on their postseason […]

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