Griffin Gotta

June 27, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Dallas Mavericks have known for quite some time that Lamar Odom just didn’t feel like contributing to their team this past season, or, probably, for any forthcoming seasons as well. [...]

June 26, 2012 – Griffin Gotta When Brandon Roy retired after the 2011 season, it was a sad ending for what was a magnificent run of basketball — when he was right — with the Portland Trail Blazers. It was also woefully short, even as magnificent runs go. The belief that Roy, who had to [...]

June 22, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Miami Heat used a barrage of threes, an all-encapsulating triple-double from the best player going on planet Earth right now, LeBron James, and whatever unbelievable well of shooting and pain tolerance Mike Miller tapped into to become the rightful 2012 NBA champions. [...]

June 21, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Tonight is a night in the NBA, and sports in general, that some have been waiting for with excitement, waiting for on account of inevitability, dreading, or hoping for. LeBron James’s first real shot at winning a championship does feel, because of what James has meant even before making [...]

June 21, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Charlotte Bobcats, with Jerry Sloan out of the running and NBA assistant coaches with experience Brian Shaw and Quin Snyder the most talked about candidates for their vacant head coach position, went down the road less expected with the hiring of St. John’s assistant coach Mike Dunlap. Dunlap, [...]

June 14, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Not long after the comeback was already taken care of, the lead grown to a big enough amount to take the urgency, but not the insanity, out of the home crowd, Game 1 of the NBA Finals firmly in grasp, the Oklahoma City Thunder just kept on going. They [...]

June 8, 2012 – Griffin Gotta What LeBron James showed us in last night’s chilling one-man wrecking show is that the Miami Heat, for all their warts overall, could still represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals because they still possess what the Boston Celtics do not: The possibility of uncontrollable transcendent spectacles like [...]

June 6, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The amount of hyper-focused onion-peeling that follows every Miami Heat postseason loss (or game, rather) has always felt a bit much. [...]

June 5, 2012 – Griffin Gotta As Chris Bosh, the suddenly very-much-missed third man of the Miami Heat’s Big Three, is set to return in some capacity for tonight’s crucial Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, he enters a situation in which anything he can give to his Heat teammates will likely be accepted [...]

June 1, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The drubbing we saw last night in Oklahoma City, the 102-82 Game 3 Thunder victory over the San Antonio Spurs, was the sign we all wanted and needed. It was the official declaration that these Western Conference Finals will indeed be a series rather than a sweep; it was [...]