As media day was in full force throughout the NBA on Monday, there were a few fairly interesting stories throughout the league (Interesting for a media day anyways). There was the beginning of the Laker's new star-powered starting 5. There's the return of the one, the only: Rasheed Wallace, who is un-retiring to join the New York Knicks. And
Congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who tied up their Western Conference Finals match-up at two a piece tonight. A special shout out to the bigs from OKC as they were able to hold off San Antonio just long enough for Kevin Durant to come along in the fourth and explode for 18 points in the closing 7 minutes. The combination though,
The game was far from beautiful. It featured atrocious shooting from both Boston and Philadelphia. No one player stood out as the heroic savior of a game seven...until Paul Pierce (on a questionable charging call) fouled out with just over four minutes left in the game. It was at that point, that a savior stood up in Boston. It was at
Thursday of last week, prior to game 1 of the Heat vs Pacers series, Pacer coach Frank Vogel said of the Heat, that they were "...the biggest flopping team in the league". He elaborated further by saying, "Oftentimes, they're falling down even before contact is even being made." While those statements may be founded in a certain amount of
The San Antonio Spurs two-time All-Star Manu Ginobili is out indefinitely after breaking his hand against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday. This spells disaster for the team that finished with the best record in the Western Conference last season. The Duncan-Era, which has carried the Spurs to four-NBA Championships, is pretty much over
Brett Roberts and I have been working on other projects, which has pushed our lists of the top 200 players to ever play in the NBA to the side for a short time. But, we're back with the next installment of 139-120. This segment of my list includes a couple current players, guards, big men, players from back in the day and the superstars we
We've now covered the entire Eastern Conference amnesty clause candidates. We're moving on to the West now, where we'll see which teams have the real albatross contracts, and which teams have been careful and prudent in building their roster (see: OKC). The amnesty clause is going to benefit some teams more than others, and we'll see who
