While bigoted NBA owners damage the NBA’s brand severely, a far more fundamental problem with how the NBA is played today is destroying the game from the inside. You know what it is before I even type it: the block/charge call, the most controversial call in basketball. I watched the game before and after this [...]
September 9, 2014
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The Detroit Pistons will be missing the services of their 6-foot-11 center Greg Monroe for the first two games this coming regular season. He has been officially suspended for two games without pay by the NBA after pleading guilty to driving under the influence in Michigan, according to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo!Sports. [tweet https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/509395556981309442] [...]
September 9, 2014
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Benjamin Felix Santos
Knicks gonna Knicks. The New York Knicks registered interest in the Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried last season. We know this. But what many didn’t know is that they apparently came off as desperate. Per BasketballInsiders.com Steve Kyler (h/t FanSided.com): [tweet https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/508270654496718848] This would seem to make sense. Back in February, when rumors first surfaced, it [...]
September 9, 2014
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Not too many people around the Association have been happy with the way that the Philadelphia 76ers have been using the so called “tanking” method in order to do an entire rebuild of the roster. But a knowledgeable hoops fan has to give GM Sam Hinkie credit for turning over a once mediocre team devoid [...]
September 8, 2014
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Most unfortunately, here we go again. Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson will sell his share of the team after self-reporting a racially charged email he sent in 2012. Here’s NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s statement on the matter: [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/508636146146889728] Although the self-reported part of this mess has been played up, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo [...]
September 8, 2014
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Dare to dream. Free agency is just about over and done with, and the NBA regular season is less than two months away. You, therefore, know what that means: It’s time for the Los Angeles Lakers to register purported interest in some of next year’s biggest free agents. It happened when Dwight Howard was still [...]
September 8, 2014
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According to the Daily Mail Australia, Kanye West is on a strict diet with plenty of exercise to try and lose the stomach and get back in shape. The interesting part for us at THD was his choice of exercise while on a recent trip to Perth, Australia. Kanye and his entourage hit a local [...]
September 5, 2014
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Brazilian guard Leandro Barbosa has reached a one-year-deal with the Golden State Warriors, according to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein. The Warriors will be the fifth team that he has played with in his entire career. Last season, he averaged 7.5 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.6 assists for the Phoenix Suns. However, due to unfortunate injuries—he was [...]
August 28, 2014
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Benjamin Felix Santos
Stop what you’re doing. Stop whatever you’re doing. Doesn’t matter if you’re cooking, rocking your baby to sleep or rescuing gaggles of talking seagulls from a burning building. Stop it. Stop all of it. You’ll want to take this in. Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant apparently worked out together. Gasp. Eric Pincus of BasketballInsiders.com was [...]
August 28, 2014
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