Game 5 of the Clippers – Thunder series ended in a very controversial manner. The Clippers squandered a lead, but an interesting out-of-bounds call by the refs gave OKC another shot at winning, which they took advantage of. Because of the controversy, Doc Rivers went off after the game and criticized the refs. Not surprisingly, [...]
May 15, 2014
Anou Enright
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Tony Parker left last night’s game 5 win over the Blazers early due to a tight hamstring. San Antonio didn’t really need him, as they easily took care of Portland, sending them home for the summer. But is Parker’s hammy something to keep an eye on? If the Thunder – Clippers series goes 7, he’ll [...]
May 15, 2014
Anou Enright
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The Pistons gave the keys to the city to Stan Van Gundy by making him coach and giving the power to make personnel decisions. According to reports, one of the decisions might be to let go of unrestricted free agent, Greg Monroe. It would be wise to build around Andre Drummond moving forward, and if [...]
May 14, 2014
Anou Enright
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There was a time where nobody could recall who coached the Utah Jazz prior to Jerry Sloan. Now, the Jazz are already looking for their second coach post-Sloan after firing Tyrone Corbin a few weeks ago. The team reportedly plans on reaching out to John Stockton to gauge his interest in coaching. It’s not often that [...]
May 14, 2014
Anou Enright
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It has been a busy couple of days for Steve Kerr as he’s been at the center of a tug of war between the New York Knicks and Golden State Warriors to take on their head coaching vacancies. News is breaking that Kerr has made his decision and has signed a 5-Year, $25M deal with [...]
May 14, 2014
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With so much attention around the Knicks, Lakers and Warriors coaching vacancies, we forget about Detroit. All told, it’s not a terrible situation given some of the potential on the roster. According to Yahoo!, the Pistons are making a pretty aggressive run at Stan Van Gundy. Realizing that Golden State is also interested in Van [...]
May 13, 2014
Anou Enright
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Donald Sterling sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night and it’s not clear what the purpose was. Was it to apologize or was it to go off on a Magic Johnson tangent? His intent probably was the former, but Sterling spent way too much time on the latter. Because of all the negative things [...]
May 13, 2014
Anou Enright
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When he was re-hired by the Cavaliers last offseason, I’m not sure many had high expectations of Mike Brown succeeding. I mean, he was fired for a reason, right? After missing the playoffs by 5 games, Brown has been fired by the Cavs once again. It was rumored during the season that Kyrie Irving wasn’t [...]
May 12, 2014
Anou Enright
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Scouting combines are a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s a way to see how a guy can perform with no one around. It’s evil because it’s an evalutation of how a guy can perform with no one around. Frankly, it’s only necessary for guys on the fringe. For sure-fire lottery picks like Andrew Wiggins, Joel [...]
May 12, 2014
Anou Enright
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The Donald Sterling situation will get a lot worse before it gets better. He’s not going to sell his team without a fight. We haven’t heard the last of this. In an interesting twist, Sterling’s wife seems determined to hold on to the team. Many unanswered questions: Does Sterling own the team outright or does [...]
May 8, 2014
Anou Enright
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