Video: Lakers’ Howard pleads to save the centers

For the upcoming All-Star Game in Houston, Texas, it will mark the first time the center position will not be a position fans can vote on. Instead, fans can vote for three forwards/big men on their ballot. Though this will open up a spot for those tweener guys like Tim Duncan, it doesn't help Lakers' […]

Starting 5: No get up and go

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Lost in Los Angeles It seems like there is a daily deluge of panic coming from the purple-and-gold corner of Staples Center. A new day, another loss. More questions from prying reporters and more befuddled, […]

Ricky Rubio likely to return on Saturday for Timberwolves

Rubio is a major part of the Timberwolves team, but they haven't been terrible with him out due to injury The Minnesota Timberwolves have been one of the NBA teams hardest hit by injuries early on this season, not having Ricky Rubio at all, missing half their games from Kevin Love, and even more absences […]

Wizards passed on Harden

  James Harden has already proven that he is capable of success outside of Oklahoma City. Before he was traded to the Houston Rockets, there were worries that Harden was just a product of a system, playing opposite two of the best players in the game and he would flounder if he had to carry […]

Bibby set to workout for “four or five” teams, but not the Lakers

Here is the thing about free agent veteran point guards: they usually are not standing in the unemployment line for very long. Do not be surprised if you see a couple familiar names land on some NBA rosters over the next couple of weeks, including Mike Bibby. According to USA Today’s Sam Amick, the Memphis […]

Spurs claim to be NBA’s bad boys, recent actions agree

The San Antonio Spurs have always been thought of as that grind-it-out team. That team that methodically breaks down defenses with its passing and low post play. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have long been able to slither their way through defenses and Duncan was just a point guard in a post's body with the […]

Video: Michael Jordan back on the court

For those of you who miss seeing Michael Jordan take to the court, dominate the competition, and take to the air for dunks, well brace yourself for the following video. OK so maybe MJ isn't getting insane air like he used to but Jordan took to the court in a recent Bobcats practice which I […]

Video: D’Antoni snaps at reporter

Things are not going right for the Lakers at all early on in the season. At 9-13, lost three in a row, and lost to the Cavaliers last night, 100-94. Needless to say, the Lakers are not living up to the hype after acquiring Dwight Howard and Steve Nash (though currently out with an injury). […]

Roy Hibbert is officially crazy

Roy Hibbert sad face Background: Roy Hibbert, he of the Indiana Pacers, said to Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears that he wil be the best center in the NBA one day. Apparently, this means he does not realize that Dwight Howard, Marc Gasol, Greg Monroe, Anderson Varejao, Andrew Bynum, Kevin Love, Brook Lopez, Al Horford, […]

Starting 5: Sibling rivalry

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Manhattan takes Brooklyn It was another supercharged night at the Barclays Center for the much-anticipated rematch between New York's two teams. And both came to play in this entertaining up-and-down affair. Manhattan (aka New York) […]

Suns sticking with Gentry

After missing the playoffs last year, the Phoenix Suns made some big offseason moves in an effort to return to the status of a postseason team. Some people, including myself, said that nothing the Suns could do would be enough to make up for the loss of Steve Nash and their lack of talent all […]

The incredible transformation of O.J. Mayo

Mayo's entire career has been turned around by his moving to Dallas O.J. Mayo was drafted third overall in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves and subsequently traded on draft night to Memphis. When such a sequence of events starts off a player's career, it doesn't seem to be headed in a direction […]

Video: Raptors’ Amir Johnson absolutely loses his cool

The Raptors are 4-18, having another losing season, and there seems to be no bright light at the end of the tunnel. This losing atmosphere has to be weighing on the players mind or at least you hope it is when you see the following video of Amir Johnson absolutely losing his mind.  In the […]

What to make of the New Orleans Hornets

The New Orleans Hornets are 5-14, have lost eight of their last ten and have been outscored by an average of over seven points per game in those ten games.  So things aren't going very well.  Good news awaits, however, the New Orleans Time-Picayune is reporting that Davis practiced Monday and could be back as […]

Starting 5: The defense rests

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Only One D in Texas The Spurs have not been a defensive-minded team for a few years now. Gregg Popovich has successfully turned his team from a defensive, half-court team to one that gets up […]

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