Griffin Gotta

February 3, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Okay, we need to begin by taking a moment to thank The Deseret News for locating former Utah Jazz great Karl Malone and asking him some questions. [...]

February 1, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Thursday night the starters for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game in Orlando will be announced. This is typically never as interesting as the reserve selections, which come later. [...]

January 30, 2012 – Griffin Gotta For all of the awesome basketball we saw yesterday, from the hopefully first of many Bulls/Heat grudge matches to the newest addition to the Spurs/Mavericks litany of classics over the years, the Orlando Magic wrapped up their worst week ever with one final ridiculous blowout, at home to the [...]

January 27, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The weekend’s nearly here, so it’s time to look ahead to the story lines and match-ups from around the league that will tide us over for the next few days. Then, of course, we need to go ahead and give some of them an arbitrary grade. It’s the right [...]

January 26, 2012 – Griffin Gotta At halftime in Houston last night, the Milwaukee Bucks were down nine, fresh off a 13 point second quarter and losing center Andrew Bogut in the first to a sprained ankle. If you’ve watched many Bucks’ games over the last couple of years, since they had the Atlanta Hawks [...]

January 25, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Quotes from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made the daily cycle yesterday when, before Dallas’s victory over the Phoenix Suns on Monday night, the Cubes confessed he let Steve Nash walk back in 2004 because he didn’t think there’d be much of a chance the since two-time NBA MVP [...]

January 24, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Kevin McHale, the newest head coach of the Houston Rockets, returned to his former coaching residence in Minnesota last night, where, at the time, he left a burgeoning All-Star in Kevin Love. The Timberwolves also have a new coach this season in Rick Adelman, whom the Rockets let walk [...]

January 23, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Over the weekend it was announced that NBA Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki will miss at least the next four games for his Dallas Mavericks. Could he still be playing, with his uncharacteristically low shooting percentage and point totals? Could he continue grinding through this tightly-compressed season on the floor? [...]