Mohamed Abdihakim

The Cavaliers’ Anderson Varejao, known for being sidelined to injuries, is facing perhaps his scariest yet. Varejao was diagnosed recently with a blood clot in his right lung. The Cavs’ big man has been hospitalized since Thursday, limited to little outside of a regime of blood thinners. He’ll have to continue taking those blood thinners [...]

In a sit-down with Gary Woelfel of the Journal Times, one thing was made clear: Samuel Dalembert and Scott Skiles did not see eye to eye. The 31 year old veteran center was acquired from Houston in the off season. After contributing some solid minutes to the team’s gritty image and surprising record, Dalembert wound [...]

After some spotty shooting in the Knicks’ win against the New Orleans, Carmelo Anthony had an explanation for reporters: “It’s a long story. I haven’t had a good meal in about 2 1/2 weeks. No meats, no carbs, anything like that. I don’t know how I was going through competing at a high level. Just [...]

This week, the news that the Kings higher ups were finalizing a team sale and relocation to Seattle broke. Per, Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Maloofs (co owners) were in the process of wrapping up a deal. The Maloofs are finalizing an agreement to sell the Sacramento Kings to the Hansen-Ballmer led Seattle group, sources tell [...]

The NBA’s Development League kicked off its showcase week with a couple of match-ups earlier Monday. One of those games involved the Erie BayHawks. 37 year old NBA veteran Mike James had been one of the BayHawks’ bright spots in last year’s showcase when he received a call-up from the Chicago Bulls. This year, it [...]

From the moment Royce White was drafted by the Rockets, the two were getting set for a player-organization stand-still. White had been very open about his issues with anxiety disorder. In fact, he made it quite clear early on that he was not going to risk his mental health for an NBA career. An understandable [...]

The Los Angeles Clippers’ prolific offense was muted by a staunch Denver Nuggets defense, capped by a 92-78 win. This was largely an ugly game, with both squads turning the ball over carelessly and missing manageable shots. To Denver’s credit, their defensive effort reduced the Clippers, if for just one contest, to a somewhat bumbling [...]

In the 2007-2008 season, the San Antonio Spurs were perpetrators of a no-frills style of basketball. Their defense was the third best in the NBA, allowing just 90 points per contest. Offense was more of a formality, evidenced by their 88 possessions per game average (good for 28th in the league). Words like “ugly” or [...]

Before the Rockets snagged their franchise 2-guard, they were seen as something of a stumbling experiment in off-season missteps. Jeremy Lin was signed to an extravagant deal, one that Houston deemed fit after Lin’s 35 games as a Knickerbocker (25 started). They went and signed Carlos Delfino in the dead of night. Houston also traded [...]

Andrei Kirilenko has had a pretty darn good return to the NBA thus far. Rejoining via the Timberwolves, “AK47” has been up to his old statistical tricks. Kirilenko is now averaging 13.9 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 3.9 apg, while also contributing 2 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. On two consecutive games, Kirilenko has had to [...]