The Knicks are bad. Let’s not split hairs about this. They’re awful. They need a savior, someone who can rescue them from the Eastern Conference doldrums. Good thing two superheroes in Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani, neither of whom has played this season, are on their way back. From the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: [...]
November 21, 2014
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Former Rockets and Lakers forward Josh Powell has been added to the Rockets coaching staff after having been unofficially working with them since late October. He states that all the paper work has been checked, which officially makes him the newest member of the Rockets staff. Via Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle… “They offered [...]
November 20, 2014
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Benjamin Felix Santos
It’s amazing the impact winning can have on someone’s attitude and general demeanor. Take Kobe Bryant, following the Lakers’ surprise 98-92 victory over the Rockets Wednesday night. No one saw it coming. Sure, Dwight Howard didn’t play as he tended to a sprained knee, but still. It was a pleasant shock for those in Tinseltown [...]
November 20, 2014
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Kevin Love needs time. Just like the rest of his Cavaliers teammates need time to jell, he needs time to understand his functions and role within the team’s offense. And he knows this. He admitted as much following Cleveland’s 92-90 loss to the Spurs, per Northeast Ohio Media Group’s Chris Fedor: It appears Miami’s Chris [...]
November 20, 2014
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Gray slacks. White, gray and black button-up shirt. Black leather jacket. It’s the type of event that unconsciously forces you to remember what you were wearing when it transpired. Ten years ago today, not only am I able to recall what I had on, the company around me, and where I was, but I can [...]
November 19, 2014
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New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony has been playing through a sore left knee throughout almost all their games this season. He’s been enduring this pain since their 95-90 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Oct. 30. But last Tuesday night, in their 117-113 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, things got a little worse as [...]
November 19, 2014
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Benjamin Felix Santos
In their 114-109 victory against the Atlanta Hawks Tuesday night, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant just broke another milestone once again as he officially became the fourth player in league history to reach 32,000 career points, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, and Michael Jordan. With exactly 1:10 remaining in the game, Bryant scored his [...]
November 19, 2014
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Ah, what could have been. Isaiah Thomas was apparently a wanted man during the 2014 NBA free-agency period. Well, not by the Kings. But the Lakers and (obviously) the Suns were both interested. And so, too, were the Celtics. Here’s Green Street’s Ben Rohrbach with more: Other than the late addition of Evan Turner at [...]
November 18, 2014
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Nice calves. Dude, where’s your pogo-sticking vampire squid? The Spurs are interested in making a free-agency splash. Those are all things you don’t hear everyday. Lucky for you, today is not everyday. No, you don’t have nice calves. Get over it. And if you have a pogo-sticking vampire squid, hit me up on Twitter or [...]
November 18, 2014
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In the Dallas Mavericks’ 107-80 Monday victory over the Charlotte Hornets, their 7-foot center from Germany—Dirk Nowitzki—reached an impressive milestone on being the fourth player in NBA history to tally 27,000 career points with a single team. With exactly 6:07 remaining in the third quarter, Nowitzki hit a jumper to clinch the 27,000 point mark [...]
November 18, 2014
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