The Brooklyn Nets are in trouble, and you can’t even say I didn’t warn you. After beginning the season 11-4, the Nets have lost four straight and now find themselves with just the fifth-best record in the Eastern Conference—no thanks to Brook Lopez. While Brooklyn remains a much improved team compared to last season, there’s [...]
December 11, 2012
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Oklahoma City’s most talented hoop artist is looking to join a very exclusive group: the 50-40-90 club. Larry Bird, Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Dirk Nowitzki, and Steve Nash make up this club of players who have achieved 50% from the field, 40% from three, and 90% at the freethrow line for a full season. That [...]
December 10, 2012
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Blogs, Mohamed Abdihakim
The Sacramento Kings are bad. Like really bad. Like blow the roster up immediately bad. I’m a huge fan of DeMarcus Cousins and all he can do. I can even get on board with the potential of Isaiah Thomas and Thomas Robinson. As for everyone else, though? Well, it’s time to start working the phones [...]
December 10, 2012
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In case you missed it, former NBA scoring champion and 15 year Association veteran Tracy McGrady has taken his talents halfway around the globe to play in China. While back in the states we mostly remember T-Mac for a few spectacular years as one of the best players in the league (prior to all the [...]
December 10, 2012
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The Miami Heat are not playing like a championship caliber team right now. Not at all. Except for LeBron James, that is. Miami is fresh off its second-straight loss, the first of which came against the Washington Wizards and the latter of which came against the New York Knicks. As demoralizing at the loss to [...]
December 7, 2012
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Andrew Bynum has been a monumental disappointment for the Philadelphia 76ers, but the team itself has been a surprise. Yet it is that enough to satiate the appetite of this organization? Philadelphia currently sits with at 10-8, giving them the sixth-best record in the Eastern Conference. It’s a record that has been achieved without Bynum, [...]
December 7, 2012
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The Miami Heat continue to sleep walk through their post-title hang over. Not long after handing the Washington Wizards their second win of the season, the Heat looked just as sluggish (if not more so) against a much less imposing Knicks team. At the end of the night, New York earned a 112-92 victory at [...]
December 7, 2012
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The saga that is the future of Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol continues. Rumors have begun swirl, most of which state that the Lakers are interested in dealing the struggling Gasol. But regardless of whether or not said reports hold any validity, trading the Spaniard may not be an option for Los Angeles. According [...]
December 6, 2012
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James Harden is off and running with the Houston Rockets, but there is a new elephant in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s locker room in the form of Kevin Martin. The high-scoring shooting guard came to the Thunder in what was, to say the least, a painstakingly difficult Harden trade. Oklahoma City was hard-pressed to relinquish [...]
December 6, 2012
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