Griffin Gotta

May 30, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Tonight, a bunch of bouncing ping-pong balls will decide the drafting fates of the NBA teams who did not qualify for the postseason. The draft lottery process itself isn’t much to watch; we are introduced to the folks representing each franchise, explained the rules again, take a few hundred [...]

May 25, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Saturday night, we’ll find out who moves on to face the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. If it turns out to be the Philadelphia 76ers, it will mean an especially unexpected upset, even for how tame the Boston Celtics have shown to be on any given night. [...]

May 24, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Before last night’s Game Six Philadelphia 76ers’ victory over the Boston Celtics, Philly legend Allen Iverson stepped on the hardwood one more time to deliver the game ball. [...]

May 23, 2012 – Griffin Gotta As the Oklahoma City Thunder head to their second appearance in the Western Conference Finals in as many years, the talk will be about how they’re growing up — they are — about how they’re maturing in late-game situations — also true — and about how this crazy season [...]

May 15, 2012 – Griffin Gotta If this is what this Western Conference Semis series is going to be, I’m not sure how the Los Angeles Lakers don’t go down in flames. It’s important to remember that Game One is just one game. The Oklahoma City Thunder were sharp and more than ready to be [...]

May 9, 2012 – Griffin Gotta For those of us who just wanted more basketball squeezed out of this first round, last night was a good night. [...]

May 8, 2012 – Griffin Gotta By Wednesday, the first round of these 2012 NBA Playoffs could already be over and done with. Between tonight and tomorrow, every series stands at 3-1 with the team in control having a chance for the knockout blow. It’s a little strange to see how uniform the grip on [...]

May 3, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Now, the Utah Jazz are a relatively young team. Postseason-wise, they’re all basically newcomers save for Devin Harris and Josh Howard, both ghosts of Dallas Mavericks’ past. As the regular season dwindled into a three-team race for one spot between the Jazz, Suns and Rockets, I vouched for the [...]

May 1, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Dallas Mavericks, as believed would happen once the postseason began, have exhibited the toughness, the ability to simply not die, that is necessary in order to advance. After dropping another loss by a thin margin to the Oklahoma City Thunder last night and falling down 2-0 in this [...]

April 30, 2012 – Griffin Gotta A sometimes insane, sometimes depressing, sometimes exhilarating and sometimes bland first weekend of the NBA playoffs is in the books, and there is plenty to discuss. As is the case in any first round, there’s so much going on at once that it’s hard to keep track of it [...]