Viva la Philadelphia 76ers frontcourt logjam. Just kidding. The Sixers need to do something about their overcrowded frontcourt. Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor are all best suited center. Playing any one of them at power forward doesn’t make much sense, not even if Embiid, who is expected to make his NBA debut sometime [...]
Karl-Anthony Towns doesn’t mess around. The 2016 unanimous NBA Rookie of the Year has big plans for his Minnesota Timberwolves next season—ambitions they may not yet be ready to actualize. He wants a playoff berth. From Alysha Tsuji of For The Win: For me, it’s all about team goals. We want to make the playoffs, [...]
Markieff Morris is once again making headlines for the wrong reasons. According to Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia’s John Gonzalez, the Washington Wizards forward was detained at Philadelphia International Airport after ‘suspected marijuana’ was apparently uncovered in his bag: [tweet https://twitter.com/gonzoCSN/status/735943108031041537] Here’s Gonzalez with more details: Morris, who was with a party that included his mother, checked [...]
Is Stephen Curry a good defender? He’s certainly not a terrible one. And there are times when he’s underrated, because criticism is so unnecessarily prevalent. Take the Golden State Warriors’ Game 5 Western Conference Finals win over the Oklahoma City on Thursday night. Curry didn’t see a ton of time on Russell Westbrook, but on [...]
The Houston Rockets’ coaching search is over. After a weeks-long search that spanned numerous candidates and scores of rumors, the Rockets have settled on Mike D’Antoni to be their next head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: The Houston Rockets are finalizing a four-year, $16 million-plus deal to hire Mike D’Antoni as head [...]
After a long drawn out five-week process to name all of the NBA’s awards and honors for the 2015-16 regular season, the All-NBA teams has been announced. The All-NBA 1st Team features league MVP Steph Curry, the guy who is outplaying him in the conference finals in Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Lenoard, LeBron James and DeAndre [...]
May 27, 2016
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
As I watched the Cavaliers completely obliterate and embarrass the ever confusing and bi-polar Toronto Raptors in Cleveland in Game 5, it became pretty clear to me that this has potentially been the most lopsided postseason in NBA history. There have been eight games decided by 30 or more points in the 2016 NBA Playoffs [...]
May 26, 2016
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
The Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t just trade for Channing Frye so that he could drain threes. He’s apparently an expert pep-talker, too. Kevin Love did not have good outings in Games 3 and 4, both losses, against the Toronto Raptors. He shot a combined 5-of-23 from the field, and head coach Tyronn Lue wasn’t able to [...]
Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey and Draymond Green would probably get along really well. Neither of them likes to sugarcoat anything. True to form, Casey didn’t sugarcoat the performance of his team during its 116-78 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, per the New York Times‘ Scott Cacciola: [...]