0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/16/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/7/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/3/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 3/1/2016
When the 2015 Houston Rockets completed an all-time comeback in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, the death-defying feat turned around the series and led to a substantial, tangible result. Houston, you’re not in 2015 anymore. It’s true that the 2016 Rockets recalled their 2015 escape from the clutches of the Los Angeles Clippers […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/26/2016
The saying goes that lightning never strikes in the same place twice. Technically, Los Angeles and Portland aren’t the same place. Don’t tell the Houston Rockets. They just re-created their great escape from danger in the 2015 NBA Playoffs. Some of the specific details were different, but the larger resurrection was very much the same. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/17/2016
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? […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/16/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/10/2016
“If you tell The Truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain Odds are, we will want to remember the NBA version of The Truth, even though for many teams, remembering means watching your team lose at the hands of one of his shots. Lost in the overly dramatic Kobe Bryant retirement tour […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
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 […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 2/7/2016
Check out this play from the Los Angeles Clippers as they go on to beat the Miami Heat by seven…. Back and forth we go on ABC! LAC lead is 7 after this LOB! 2:11 left.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 2/3/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/30/2016
The Toronto Raptors are going to enjoy hosting the 2016 NBA All-Star Game — not just because the midwinter spectacle comes to Canada for the first time, but because the local team has begun to emerge as the favorite for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Yes, after months of uncertainty in the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/26/2016
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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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/22/2016
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 […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 1/21/2016
Oh poor Matthew Dellavedova. He just got schooled by Chris Paul on this play….
