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The fine lines for the Spurs and Clippers could still cut in different directions

For the San Antonio Spurs, it’s hard to be troubled by anyone or anything other than the Golden State Warriors right now. The Spurs have just dispatched the Oklahoma City Thunder and, more recently, the Los Angeles Clippers. More precisely, they’ve dominated the fourth quarter in each home game over the past five days. They […]

March Madness, NBA-style: plenty of big leads get lost… even by good teams

College basketball teams — not being as responsible as NBA teams — blow big leads all the time. Over the past week of zany conference tournament action, Austin Peay overcame a 19-point second-half deficit to win the Ohio Valley Tournament. Northern Iowa led Evansville by 17 in the second half of the Missouri Valley Tournament […]

The Thunder should be concerned, but they don’t face a crisis

It’s not wrong to be extremely concerned about the Oklahoma City Thunder following Wednesday night’s ugly loss against the Los Angeles Clippers. The unvarnished truth of a Grade-A gack attack offers more than enough reason to question the future of this franchise. Facts – presented simply – represent the best editorial commentary about the wayward […]

First-half high wire: every NBA team’s record in 2-point games and OT

Forget about games decided by five points or fewer — let’s offer an even more specific examination of NBA teams and their results in the first half of the season. Below, you’ll find records in overtime games and games decided by no more than two points. Why two, you might (reasonably) ask, instead of three? […]

The most important games of the first half: Pacific Division

Which games defined the first half of the NBA season for the five teams in the Pacific Division? The answer for one team is resoundingly clear, but find out what the other four answers are below: * GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS: Monday, January 18 at Cleveland — W, 132-98 No game sent more shockwaves through the […]

Trade deadline overview: tweaks at the top, unloading for the underclass

All-Star Weekend is just about here, but while the NBA gears up for fun and festivities in Toronto, the serious business of the league — the occasion which demands our attention — is the upcoming trade deadline, February 18 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Plenty of assessments will be made in the past tense once […]

A Blake-for-Durant swap? It makes sense for only one team, not both

The column which reverberated through the NBA had a lot to say about Kevin Durant: Adrian Wojnarowski’s latest “WojBomb” was not a tweet so much as a whole column full of reportage and insight into Durant’s impending summer of free agency, and the decision which will emerge within it. The column is so layered with […]

Breaking: Blake Griffin’s hand… and the Clippers’ trust in each other

The Los Angeles Clippers entered this season as a team with multiple knuckleheads on the roster. You know what a knucklehead generally is, but let’s be clear and up front about it: A knucklehead is someone who persistently makes egregiously bad decisions, on or off the court, to the extent that his team is repeatedly […]

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Josh Smith back to the Rockets: What’s up, Doc?

What did the NBA need on a Friday morning? A Woj bomb, that’s what, even with a typo: It’s hardly a shock that the Josh Smith experiment didn’t work out in Los Angeles. If anything is surprising about this move, it’s that Smith is going back to the team he helped lead to the Western […]

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