0 comments by Jovan Alford 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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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 […]
0 comments by Jovan Alford on 2/22/2016
Some sports moments are special not just because of the excellence they carry, but because you know that a sport is evolving before your very eyes. What Anthony Davis did on Sunday afternoon inside The Palace of Auburn Hills rates as that kind of moment in the life of professional basketball. If the Golden State […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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… […]
0 comments by Zac Voynow 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 […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 1/16/2016
You don’t often see a final play that is executed as well as the Pelicans and Anthony Davis executed this one….
0 comments by Joe Mags 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 […]
0 comments by Connor Pelton 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 […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/26/2015
Ryan Anderson does his best impression of Blake Griffin on this dunk…. Flight 33 prepared for takeoff!
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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: […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek 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 […]
