Gregg Popovich’s Spurs continue to fly under the radar and I’m willing to bet he prefers it that way. Despite not always being talked about, his accomplishments are not being overlooked. For the third time in his career, Pop has been named coach of the year. He joins only Pat Riley and Don Nelson as [...]
April 22, 2014
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Rumors
Folks, you made it. Congratulations. The NBA regular season is over. It’s done. Finished. Finito. And good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, this season was crazy. Downright exciting. But it also sucked. It sucked so freaking hard. More than it’s sucked in the past few years. Did it rival the 2011-12 lockout-truncated season? Shit, I [...]
April 17, 2014
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Power Rankings
Damn. What’s a four-letter word for “this totally sucks, but it wouldn’t have sucked if it had happened a tad sooner?” Yeah, let’s stick with damn while really thinking about dropping F-Bombs. In untimely fashion, the New Orleans Pelicans announced Thursday that Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon will miss the remainder of this season: The [...]
April 11, 2014
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Things are getting tense in the NBA. Months of playing and winning and losing and tanking and contending and injuries and comebacks and other stuff have come down to this: two-plus weeks of season-defining basketball. Some teams are battling for postseason seeding. Others are fighting for playoff survival, looking to snag a last-minute berth. A [...]
April 2, 2014
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Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni has a backup plan if his NBA gig is taken away from him. Or rather, he could. And he most definitely should. Sources told ESPN’s Jeff Goodman and Marc Stein the Marshall Thundering Herd, D’Antoni’s Alma Mater, reached out to him about becoming their next head coach: Marshall [...]
March 28, 2014
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Put your trust in this week’s edition of NBA Power Rankings. With the regular season drawing to a close, it’s really time to start putting things in perspective. Quite randomly, I stumbled upon the idea to develop an unpolished trust meter for every team, good and bad, tanker and contender, the Philadelphia 76ers and San [...]
March 26, 2014
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Nothing beats that awkward moment when you realize the New York Knicks are still in the playoff race. I’m kidding. Save for their massive letdown against the Kyrie Irving-less Cleveland Cavaliers, the Knicks have been playing some nice ball of late—so much so, that we can mention “NBA playoffs” and “the Knicks” in the same [...]
March 25, 2014
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March Madness, here the NBA comes. While many of you remain transfixed on your television screens, waiting to see how long it takes before Wichita State gets screwed by vengeful and begrudging bracketing practices, some of us still care about the NBA. And its playoff race. And whether or not LeBron James can win another [...]
March 19, 2014
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Three cheers, eight fist-pumps and infinite twerks for movement. The NBA is rife with movement this week. Goliaths fell, Davids ascended and the enfeebled experienced success. Translation: It’s been weird in the NBA lately. (Spoiler alert.) (Seriously.) (Don’t read what comes next if you don’t want to ruin the below contents.) (I’m not joking.) (Okay, [...]
March 12, 2014
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The NBA’s Eastern Conference is good, man. Just kidding. It’s awful. All kinds of awful. The most awfullest thing ever. Picture the worst meal you’ve ever ate. Then envision yourself eating said meal alongside your most insufferable ex. And then imagine what it would feel like if that meal and rendezvous took place in the [...]
March 5, 2014
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