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SAN ANTONIO,TX – OCTOBER 29: Anthony Davis #23 of the New Orleans Pelicans goes thru dribbling exercises before their game against the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center on October 29, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that , by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images)

Can Anthony Davis win both the MVP and scoring title?

0 comments by on 11/5/2016

New Orleans Pelicans superstar forward Anthony Davis is looking to accomplish a feat that hasn’t been done since the 1999-00 season by Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. The feat that he is trying to carry out is winning both the MVP and scoring title as a big man. As I mentioned, O’Neal was the last […]

The Hawks know all too well: For the second straight year, Game 82 mattered a lot

0 comments by on 5/5/2016

For the second straight playoff season, the Atlanta Hawks are finding out how miserable an experience it is to face the Cleveland Cavaliers. David Blatt’s defense last year, Tyronn Lue’s offense this year – it doesn’t matter. An elite Kyle Korver last year, a mediocre version this year – it hasn’t made a dime’s worth […]

April Autopsy: New Orleans Pelicans

0 comments by on 4/9/2016

The New Orleans Pelicans exist in an uncomfortable situation… and that discomfort isn’t even an immediate reference to all the injuries which have afflicted the organization this past season. No, the discomfort most centrally in evidence in the Big Easy is the gnawing sense that no one in the organization knows how to solve problems. […]

For the Bucks and a few other teams, basketball isn’t the same sport each day

0 comments by on 3/2/2016

Coaches, sports psychologists, executives — anyone invested in seeing athletes perform better — would tell you: Basketball is basketball. It’s the same game anywhere you play it. The court’s the same. The basketball is the same. Free throws are still 15-foot shots. Three-pointers are still 23 feet and 9 inches, except in the corners. Switching, […]

The difference between the Spurs and Thunder was made clear on Thursday

0 comments by on 2/26/2016

The San Antonio Spurs enter Friday, February 26 with an eight-game lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder for the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Want to know the essential difference between these teams, albeit one which might not matter much in a potential West semifinal series that should light up the NBA? It […]

DALLAS, TX – NOVEMBER 03: DeMar DeRozan #10 of the Toronto Raptors at American Airlines Center on November 3, 2015 in Dallas, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

The Raptors reveal an aspirational identity through inertia

0 comments by on 2/19/2016

It was one of the most strikingly counterintuitive moments of the 2016 NBA trade deadline: The Toronto Raptors revealed a large aspirational appetite not by making a big move, but by doing nothing. It goes against the instincts of fans, commentators, everyone who follows sports either for a living or for fun: When a trade […]

Jan 18, 2016; Dallas, TX, USA; Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41) shoots over Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder (99) during the second half at the American Airlines Center. The Mavericks defeat the Celtics 118-113 in overtime. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports

The most important games of the first half: Southwest Division

0 comments by on 2/16/2016

Which games offered noticeable indications of where each Southwest Division team stood at the All-Star break? Let’s find out in these days before the beginning of the season’s second half. * DALLAS MAVERICKS: Monday, January 18 vs. Boston — W, 118-113 (OT) The Mavericks probably won’t get out of the first round of the playoffs… […]

NBA Trade Rumors: Dwight Howard could be dealt by underachieving Rockets

0 comments by on 1/19/2016

As the trade deadline looms closer, the rumors surrounding big name players are heating up. It’s hard to come up with legitimate reasons for the Rockets potentially trading Dwight Howard… … other than the fact that the team has struggled playing together; sits near .500; and is virtually irrelevant in a Western Conference that’s been dominated […]

MIAMI, FL – DECEMBER 25: Anthony Davis #23 of the New Orleans Pelicans reacts during the game against the Miami Heat at American Airlines Arena on December 25, 2015 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Rob Foldy/Getty Images)

The Pelicans Are Running Out Of Time

0 comments by on 1/8/2016

On Wednesday, the New Orleans Pelicans, then 11-22, played the Dallas Mavericks, a team they had beaten twice this season and played three times overall. Dallas elected not to play four starters — Deron Williams, Wes Matthews, Zaza Pachulia, and the wizard Dirk Nowitzki — as their old legs were still reeling from a comeback […]

One cannot escape the irony that on a day when Yahoo! Sports reporter and columnist Adrian Wojnarowski wrote about LeBron James’s desire to bring Mark Jackson to Cleveland, the Cavs and general manager David Griffin did something which eerily mirrored the Warriors’ dismissal of Jackson at the end of the 2014 season. Hiring a man without previous NBA head-coaching experience in the attempt to maximize a window of opportunity is exactly what Griffin is trying to do in Cleveland. It’s what the Warriors did a year and a half ago, with great results.

New Year’s Resolutions: Western Conference

0 comments by on 1/3/2016

The calendar has turned to 2016, and “resolution season” is in full swing. The theme is no different for multiple teams across the NBA, especially in the Western Conference, as teams look to finish the first half of the regular season in strong fashion. So, what resolutions should some of those teams make? We break […]

Notes from a Friday night: Wins and losses raise questions for several teams

0 comments by on 12/12/2015

Nearly six whole months of gamenights fill an NBA regular season. Plenty of nights are sifted through and forgotten, especially in the earlier stages of the season. It is very easy — and not terribly unreasonable — to write off individual gamenights before Christmas as random occurrences. Many will turn out to be just that: […]

Conference curveball: The West isn’t the best and the East isn’t the least

0 comments by on 11/28/2015

Death. Taxes. The NBA Western Conference being conclusively and comprehensively better than the Eastern Conference. We have lived with this reality in the NBA for some time, and at the All-Star break, we could very well see it in evidence yet again. However, it certainly doesn’t exist right now. After one month of very uneven […]

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