With the college basketball season now a few weeks old, evaluating draft prospects can actually get going in earnest.  Every team has played at a couple of games, most have played more.  Before the season started, both Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress and Chad Ford of ESPN both had, in some order, Nerlens Noel of Kentucky, […]

Indiana Pacers (6-8) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (7-7) 10:30 p.m. There was a time this offseason when Indiana was thought to be the second best team (at least for the regular season) in the Eastern Conference. This was a young team, committed to defense and able to find scoring from just about anywhere. David West, […]

The Washington Wizards are finding it hard to get that first win of the season. Sitting at 0-12 has to be embarrassing enough. But for Wizards forward Jan Vesely, it gets even worse. To call Vesely a bust would be an understatement. Washington took him with the sixth overall pick in last year’s draft and […]

The Lakers are still in upheaval and getting used to their new coach. The last thing Mike D'Antoni probably wants to do at this point is make things worse and bring more change. D'Antoni has no plans for any more changes to the Lakers coaching staff. He said last week that he plans to keep […]

This is just totally embarassing for Celtics' Paul Pierce and it came courtesy of Magic's Jameer Nelson. Let's set it up: The scene: Orlando, FL, Amway Center The victim: Boston's Paul Pierce The outcome: Pierce gets decimated by a hesitation move by Nelson which causes his ankle to get shattered along with his knee to […]

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Brooklyn's town The long-awaited Knicks-Nets game lived up to its billing in the way only a game in New York could. The two teams from the City that Never Sleeps went back and forth and […]

New York Knicks (9-3) vs. Brooklyn Nets (8-4) 7 p.m./TNT At long last, the Knicks and Nets will meet in the battle of New York. A new rivalry is born and the excitement in The Big Apple is pretty palpable. TNT reported on its pregame show that Raymond Felton compares the excitement for this rivalry […]

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Jrue Holiday makes up for ET's missed FTs Evan Turner stepped to the line late in Sunday's 104-101 win over Phoenix with a chance to send everyone home happy not only with a win, but […]

You knew something quite humiliating was coming at Minnesota's Nikola Pekovic when Warriors rookie Harrison Barnes came barreling towards him in the paint. And by "humiliating," I mean Barnes absolutely made Pekovic look silly for even attempting to get in his way. Check out Barnes' nasty one-handed dunk over the big man and giving him […]

Boston Celtics (7-6) vs. Orlando Magic (5-7) 6 p.m. Glen Davis has been looking forward to this game for a while now. Not only are the Magic in the midst of a five-game home stand, one that could very well set their season in one direction or another. OK, maybe most people expect it to […]

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Heat get hot The Miami Heat are affectionately known as the Flying Death Machine on the Twitter-verse. Simply because when the Heat are at their best, they come at you from all sides at blazing […]

Los Angeles Clippers (8-4) vs. Atlanta Hawks (7-4) 7 p.m. The Clippers lost last night to the Nets, getting "overrated" chants rained down upon them from the hipster-y crowd in Brooklyn. Los Angeles is most likely not overrated. This team is very very good and very very deep. The Clippers are not going away any […]

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Problems with Los Angeles? Things seemed very peachy. Mike D'Antoni's offense was taking hold, Los Angeles was scoring and everything seemed to work. Memphis has a way of changing that. The Grizzlies are looking like […]

Atlanta Hawks (6-4) vs. Charlotte Bobcats (6-4) 7 p.m. What is It old you the matchup above had Playoff implications and meant something in the Southeast Division? OK, so maybe it is too early to be talking about such things considering it is still late November and so many things can and will change before […]