Ryan Bawek

Hornets forward and human Swiss Army Knife Nicolas Batum missed a few games this past week with what we now know were “excruciating” migraine headaches. Batum underwent a CT scan on his brain last week after reporting suffering multiple extreme migraine headaches. They apparently started the morning of March 12, after the Hornets overtime game [...]

There have been very few general managers who had the level of success in professional sports (even less had Michael Jordan) as Jerry Krause. Krause was the general manager of the Chicago Bulls from 1985 through 2003, including winning six championships during the 1990s with Jordan and Pippen leading the Bulls teams. He passed away [...]

We are all aware of Russell Westbrook’s mind-numbing resume for MVP this season as he is averaging a triple-double (31-10-10) and has an incredible 35 triple-doubles thus far this season. While that more than speaks for itself, some of his teammates are still doing their part to campaign for their leader for the NBA’s top [...]

There have been many a story detailing the deep bond and connection that was formed with the core of the Boston Celtics of the late 2000s that won an NBA title in 2008 and were one win away from a second title in 2010. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins [...]

The Lance Stephenson experiment is over in Minnesota and the T’Wolves have now acquired former King and noted rare DeMarcus Cousins buddy, Omri Casspi. Casspi’s stay in New Orleans was about as brief as Andrew Bogut’s in Cleveland as Casspi broke his thumb in his first game with the Pelicans, which caused the Pelicans to [...]

Karl Malone is one of the most accomplished players in NBA history as the second leading scorer in league history and his durability over his 19 seasons was the stuff of legend. He played at least 80 games in 17 of his 19 seasons, and throughout his career he played in 95 percent of his [...]

If you want to know what was potentially the worst free agent signing this past summer with all of the funny money that was thrown around, you have to look no further than the Memphis Grizzlies and Chandler Parsons. The Grizzlies gave Parsons a massive four-year, $94 million contract this summer despite all of his [...]

Not that long ago Carlos Boozer was one of the most coveted free agents on the market and a guy worthy of a $100 million NBA contract in 2010. Times have changed and the former two-time NBA All-Star has been out of the NBA since a forgettable stint with the Los Angeles Lakers ended in [...]

LaVar Ball has made himself far and away more famous and in the news than his top NBA draft prospect son Lonzo Ball and his other two talented sons in high school LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, with his controversial comments and let’s be honest, disassociation with reality. He has said that Lonzo is better than [...]

Growing up in Phoenix as a Phoenix Suns fan there has always been one oddity that never really made sense…being a fan of a team located in one of the seven largest metropolitan areas in the United States, why was there such a the lack of hometown players to play for the team? In my [...]