Griffin Gotta

April 5, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The NBA slate was packed with postseason-ready pairings last night. Headlined by the Thunder and Heat’s bruising tease, the Mavericks and Grizzlies jostled for position in the Western Conference [...]

April 4, 2012 – Griffin Gotta In the Clipperfied version of the Staples Center tonight, the young, high-flying team with all the promise will try to take the season series from their shared arena-dwellers for the first time in 19 long years. The Lakers, although not without their regular share of dramatics, are without the [...]

April 3, 2012 – Griffin Gotta As far as the NBA — the likely next step for many of the Wildcats involved in Kentucky’s victory over Kansas last night in the national championship game — is concerned, their professional prospects probably were only amplified slightly with the win. This is not to say that each [...]

March 30, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Less than a month is what we have left of the regular season in the NBA. Once college basketball decides its champion on Monday, the basketball world will shift its focus almost entirely to the pro game. With an end in sight, teams and players in contention for the [...]

March 29, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Yesterday Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy, he of the aversion to single slice blowout promotions, responded to former University of Maryland coach [...]

March 28, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Dallas Mavericks currently stand fifth in the Western Conference. Not bad, considering the stop-and-start season they’ve gone through thus far. The season has been one that’s seen age and fatigue, important new players and rustiness mix together for stretches of brilliance. Often, the Mavericks have looked like a [...]

March 27, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Last night the Chicago Bulls were the rare victims of an ugly loss. It was at home no less, and it saw Denver Nuggets’ point guard Ty Lawson running wild and free en route to 27 points in a 108-91 win. This is the sort of game that makes [...]

March 23, 2012 – Griffin Gotta As the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight get whittled down to the Final Four this weekend, the NBA is a little over a month from the beginning of the postseason. Or, as rest days and scheduling are considered, “normalcy.” College basketball’s playoff system crams so many games into about a [...]

March 22, 2012 – Griffin Gotta I remember when Ramon Sessions left the Milwaukee Bucks after signing an offer sheet with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Bucks, to my surprise, declined to match. Coming off a 34-win season under then-new coach Scott Skiles (this was an improvement, mind you), Milwaukee was showing the very early signs [...]

March 21, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Shannon Brown nails a three, triggering a full timeout from the bench. Down ten with seven minutes and change left, Los Suns had El Heat — for what it’s worth, these are basically the Taco Bell versions of translating — on the ropes on their home floor. As this [...]