San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson isn’t trying to rain on the Golden State Warriors’ superteam parade. He just wants you, and them, to know this feeling of Nirvana won’t last forever. As The Admiral told Complex’s Zach Frydenlund (h/t Bleacher Report): “It takes time, you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. [...]
August 23, 2016
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LeBron James cares not for the semantics of aging in the NBA. He gets it. He is 31 and entering his 14th NBA season. He is supposed to be on the decline, firmly planted in the back end of his career, conceding touches and statuses to the younger stars, both on and off his Cleveland [...]
August 23, 2016
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According to a report from the Associated Press, the NBA has officially decided to move the 2017 NBA All-star Game and Weekend to New Orleans. [tweet https://twitter.com/SInow/status/766634841165205504] This will be the 3rd time New Orleans has hosted the game since 2008, also hosting the event just three years ago in 2014. As you may remember [...]
August 22, 2016
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LeBron James’ deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers is (finally) done. Now it’s J.R. Smith’s turn. Technically, anyway. There hasn’t been much talk about him nearing a deal with the Cavaliers. Smith was believed to be seeking $15 million per year in his next contract, per Cleveland.com’s Chris Fedor. Cleveland apparently countered with an offer in [...]
August 19, 2016
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Raise your hand if you had the soon-to-be 39-year-old Jason Terry snagging a new contact before the 28-year-old Ty Lawson. It seemed, at times, that the 17-year veteran guard would be forced to retire this summer. We’re now in late August, a return to the Houston Rockets was clearly out of the question, and rumors [...]
August 19, 2016
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Spain’s basketball team is on a roll in Rio. But their luck may have just run out. After dropping their first two Olympic matchups, ostensibly torpedoing their medal hopes, Spain has won their last four games, earning a date with Team USA in the semifinals. Deemed the biggest threat to the United States through the [...]
August 19, 2016
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Shutting down LeBron James is impossible. That much has been proven time and again, but the notion of him as a human was put to bed in the 2015 NBA Finals, when he carried a slipshod Cleveland Cavaliers squad to an improbable Game 6. Yes, the Cavaliers lost. And sure, LeBron was anything but efficient. [...]
August 19, 2016
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Best NBA player in the world. Three-time champion. The man responsible for ending the city of Cleveland’s title drought, and for bringing the Cavaliers their first-ever Larry O’Brien Trophy. Future Hall of Famer. Greatest-of-all-time candidate. Yessiree, LeBron James is having quite the career. I bet you even think he is living out his dream. So [...]
August 18, 2016
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LeBron James is not yet ready to take permanent leave from Team USA basketball. Shame on you for thinking he was. Just kidding. It makes sense that you would feel that way. LeBron is 31 and turned down an opportunity to play for Team USA this summer in Rio. He will be halfway toward his [...]
August 18, 2016
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What, you didn’t think Derrick Rose was kidding about the New York Knicks being a superteam, did you? Rose ruffled a lot of feathers and shattered the boundaries of conventional wisdom when he identified the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors as the most talked-about superteams. We all got a good laugh out of it. [...]
August 18, 2016
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