Griffin Gotta

March 20, 2012 – Griffin Gotta There were periods during last night’s Denver Nuggets game that the five players on the court were water-bug point man Ty Lawson, defensive swing Arron Afflalo, newly back-in-town Wilson Chandler, [...]

March 19, 2012 – Griffin Gotta 64 teams turn into 16 just like that, and after a weekend of constant NCAA tournament basketball in front of my eyes, what can be taken away? Jumping into college basketball for a month or so means [...]

March 16, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Well, the trade deadline has come and gone. Really, the way things went down, the teams many thought would be busy either trying to add pieces or getting the women and children on life rafts and off the sinking ship indeed were doing those things. We got a few [...]

March 15, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Depending where you live, at some point this afternoon the NBA trade deadline (3PM EST) and its traveling circus will vanish, leaving behind all the debris from what will or will not have happened come the witching hour. Both trades and mere rumors have impacts on teams, players, coaches, [...]

March 14, 2012 – Griffin Gotta It’s probably safe to say that the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t want it to go down like this. Andrew Bogut, the franchise’s number one overall draft pick of seven years ago [...]

March 13, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Just so everybody knows, the basketball spirit animals got together for their annual conference in Lake Havasu at an undetermined time and decided to put one of the crazier days on the NBA’s calendar, the trade deadline, and perhaps the craziest day in all of sports, the first day [...]

March 9, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Let’s face it, national television-wise, this weekend is all about college basketball. The conclusion of conference tournaments leading up to the penultimate event of March Madness (aside from the Final Four), Selection Sunday, have basically all of the airwaves and attention on lock. That’s not to say there aren’t [...]

March 8, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Milwaukee Bucks forward Ersan Ilyasova is in a contract year. He is already on record of saying whoever pays most will probably win his services following this season when he enters free agency; only recently, as his numbers continue to demand attention at an optimal time in lieu of [...]

March 7, 2012 – Griffin Gotta When a broken nose forces Kobe Bryant to wear a protective face-mask — made most famous by Rip Hamilton in recent years — he doesn’t just slap on any old face-mask. Bryant, like he does with the game of basketball as he gets older and wiser on the floor, [...]

March 6, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Trade deadline rumors are all over the place in Portland right now, with it appearing that at least either Jamal Crawford or Raymond Felton, and possibly both of them, could be moved. This is a far cry from early January, when the Blazers were 7-2 with wins over the [...]