0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/8/2016
Let it be said up front, for the sake of clarity: Kawhi Leonard, the San Antonio Spurs’ best player in the present tense, played well on Thursday night against the Golden State Warriors. An 8-of-12 shooting line, two 3-point makes, eight trips to the foul line, and only two turnovers represents a relatively efficient performance. […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/7/2016
Look at how Josh Richardson attacks the rim and throws down this dunk with authority! JOSH RICHARDSON! Where did you get that jetpack!
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Watch out when Zach LaVine gets the ball on an open fast break…..
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Rick Carlisle isn’t Steve Kerr or Gregg Popovich. He isn’t wonderboy coach Brad Stevens. Not the coach of a championship contender, and not in his late 30s, Carlisle doesn’t have the present moment or the future on his side. Yet, if Wednesday night’s victory by his Dallas Mavericks over the Houston Rockets reaffirmed a single […]
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Life is complicated — if you read Sam Hinkie’s 13-page letter of resignation from the Philadelphia 76ers, this truth will be reaffirmed on many levels. In reading that letter, observers will arrive at different conclusions. Try these three: Reasonable people can and will disagree about Hinkie’s methods, their effectiveness, and how coherent a plan Hinkie […]
0 comments by Bart D on 4/6/2016
If you’re the sort of person who believes in karma … good for you. I mean, if someone says anything mean about you believing in it, you assume something bad’s going to happen to them, so I’ve got to stay positive here. You also probably think the Indiana Pacers had this coming this year. After […]
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The New York Knicks’ tape has to become a nix tape. Hopefully, this will exist on only one level, so that it doesn’t have to emerge on two separate fronts. What does this mean, as we evaluate New York at the end of a lottery-bearing season? The answers are not that complicated. No lengthy preamble […]
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Tuesday night in Oracle Arena, the Minnesota Timberwolves reminded the NBA that although they didn’t come close to earning a playoff berth this season, they’re going to be heard from in the future. The question is: “How much?” The Timberwolves are definitely going to win more in the coming years, as long as Karl-Anthony Towns […]
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We come not to bury the Golden State Warriors, but to praise the San Antonio Spurs… yet not praise them too much. As you can see, the NBA got a little more complicated last night in Oakland… and even more interesting than it already was. After the Warriors’ streak of 114 straight wins with a […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/5/2016
Check out this dunk as Giannis flies with a dunk from just inside the free throw line….
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For the Los Angeles Lakers, no one problem overshadows the franchise… because there are too many problems to count. As we conduct an April Autopsy of the Purple and Gold’s NBA season, the D’Angelo Russell-Nick Young mess is not the Lakers’ foremost problem. The culture which created it — rooted in ownership, but evident in […]
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The Philadelphia 76ers are not the Houston Astros of the NBA. The Astros endured a lot of pain in 2014, but their development of young baseball players swiftly bore fruit in a 2015 playoff season. When organizations transparently attempt to scrap everything and start from the bottom, there’s an expectation players will develop — not […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/4/2016
We didn’t track back-to-backs in the Western Conference in Feburary, because the schedule was both truncated and split in that month by the extended All-Star break. We will present the post-All-Star break portion of February and all of March in this latest report: * Reference Guide: B2B = back-to-back 45 = a “4 in 5” […]
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We have tracked back-to-backs each month of the NBA season. Here are the facts and figures for the Eastern Conference in the post-All-Star break portion of February and the whole month of March: * Reference Guide: B2B = back-to-back 45 = a “4 in 5” game sequence, referring to four games in five nights W […]
Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) during an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics Friday, April 1, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
0 comments by John Cannon on 4/3/2016
In an area famous for seismic activity, there was an earth-shaking basketball game in Oakland Friday night. It was a regular-season game, the 76th of the season for both teams. It didn’t get anybody into the playoffs or knock anyone out of the playoffs; in fact, neither team gained or lost any ground in the […]
