Starting 5: If you can’t stand the heat…

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: … Get out of the kitchen The Cleveland Cavaliers built a 24-point lead in the first half and seemed to have easy sailing to a victory. The dynamic backcourt duo of Kyrie Irving and Dion […]

Shootaround: Now what?

Golden State Warriors (3-2) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (1-4) 10:30 p.m. Do the Lakers even have a plan at this point? Today, the Lakers fired Mike Brown after the team's disappointing start to the season. Is the 1-4 start really Brown's fault? No, probably not. The Lakers got the stars to headline the marquee but […]

Starting 5: Durant drops Bulls

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. BREAKING: LAKERS FIRE MIKE BROWN 1: Durant does it again Kevin Durant. Do I need to say anything more? Durant took over the final moments of the fourth quarter in Chicago, making several difficult shots to […]

Lakers fire Mike Brown 5 games into the season

In a surprise move, that is really not all that surprising, the Los Angeles Lakers have fired head coach Mike Brown five games into the season. The Lakers are off to a disappointing 1-4 start after rounding up Dwight Howard and Steve Nash to come to L.A. to play alongside Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. […]

Crawford on his time in Portland: “We deserved to get booed”

If they gave out Sixth Man of the Year awards at Seattle’s Rainier Beach High School back in the day, it is a given that Jamal Crawford would have grabbed every single one. But instead he was busy starting, winning a state championship in 1998 and eventually having his jersey retired.  Ah, those were the […]

Shootaround: Thunder and lightning

Oklahoma City Thunder (2-2) vs. Chicago Bulls (3-1) 8 p.m./TNT The Thunder and the Bulls remain two of the top teams in the league despite the changes to the roster that happened to both rosters. The Thunder are still adjusting to life without James Harden and Kevin Martin appears to be settling in. The Bulls […]

Vinsanity open to returning to Toronto

Vince Carter was probably a little nostalgic when his former team came to Dallas last night. The Toronto Raptors were Carter’s first team and arguably the best years of his career. He dug the expansion team out of the cellar, led them to their first playoff appearance and first series win and even scored the […]

With Granger out for 3 months, who will step up for Pacers?

Well, the Indiana Pacers wanted to move up the ladder in the Eastern Conference to compete with the likes of the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics and now they are finding out first hand what that all entails. Persevering through the injuries is part of achieving such success. And now the Pacers will have the […]

Starting 5: Statement day

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Not yet Nets The Miami Heat are still a really good team. There was no doubt about that. Are the Nets a really good team? That is a question still worth asking. One that will […]

Nets’ new mascot is ‘meh’

About the only thing the Brooklyn Nets did not steal from the San Antonio Spurs (the team color scheme to be exact) has been their new mascot. So the Nets and Marvel Comics teamed up to create a new mascot and right away you might be thinking, "OK, cool Marvel is involved. The character should […]

Shootaround: A tale of two franchises

San Antonio Spurs (4-0) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (2-2) 10:30 p.m./ESPN It is always kind of amazing to watch the great franchises be great. It seems even in this early part of the season that the Spurs continue not to get the respect they deserve. San Antonio is the only Western Conference team left unbeaten […]

5 things to watch: Nets vs. Heat

The Brooklyn Nets (1-1) will make a trip to Florida to face the Miami Heat (3-1) for an Eastern Conference showdown. However, it will be a tall task for the Nets to leave South Beach with a win as Miami is undefeated at home early in the season. Not to mention the Nets have lost […]

Harden only got an hour to decide on OKC contract

After winning the sixth man of the year award with Oklahoma City, helping lead the Thunder to the Finals and cementing himself as one of the biggest fan favorites in the NBA, it’s a little shocking that James Harden wasn’t given longer to consider his contract offer with the Thunder. Harden only had an hour […]

Blake and fan make up, NBA fines Blake $25,000

The Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer Bill Macdonald said it all. “That’s the ultimate in frustration when you engage the fans…” Now Lakers point guard Steve Blake must put his money where his mouth is. On Tuesday, the NBA fined Blake $25,000 for directing inappropriate language toward a fan last week when the Lakers faced […]

Knicks’ Shumpert should be back in 2013

The New York Knicks are off to a great start, beginning 3-0 with double digit wins in all three games. They are one of three teams left undefeated in the league and have been shutting down opponents on the defensive end and they have been doing so without Iman Shumpert, who was their best perimeter […]

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