Fresh off his Most Improved Player award from last season, the Suns’ Goran Dragic will become arguably the most sought after free agent this summer. LaMarcus Aldridge, Marc Gasol and Kevin Love will also be available, but Dragic is still coveted. Dragic sounds like he will enjoy going through free agency, as he states every [...]
January 26, 2015
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Rumors
From the moment we were introduced to Shawn Marion’s funky shot release, we knew he had to be talented to make it as far as he had with a shot like that. Shawn was drafted in 1999 and has enjoyed a very fruitful career. But this may be the end of the line for Marion, [...]
January 21, 2015
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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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Allow me to tell you a secret. Injuries suck. The NBA has been a hotbed for injuries and sad storylines early on, and it sucks and blows simultaneously. So, too, does the whole early-season confusion. There is so much inconsistency around the Association this time of year. Good teams aren’t good, bad teams aren’t bad, [...]
November 12, 2014
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We are now just a month away from the highly anticipated 2014 NBA Draft. Following a surprising NBA Draft Lottery where Cleveland snagged the top overall selection for the 2nd consecutive year, we can now begin to formulate our newest Mock Draft based on team needs. The top tier obviously includes a trio of talented [...]
For the longest time, former Lottery pick Darko Milicic has been considered the most disastrous #2 overall selection in NBA Draft history, or at least in the modern era. But after the still only 24 year old Michael Beasley, the #2 pick in 2008, was released this past week, could “B-Easy” be creeping up on [...]
September 9, 2013
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Max contracts usually solve everything, just not in the case of Eric Gordon. After receiving a four-year deal worth $58 million from the New Orleans Hornets this past summer, Gordon has pouted, been injured and, most recently, engaged in a shouting match with head coach Monty Williams. Oh, and he’s essentially been put back on [...]
April 9, 2013
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This bodes well for the Lakers playoff hopes and not so much for Utah. The Jazz may be without their talented young big man, Enes Kanter for the rest of the season. Kanter is out indefinitely with a dislocated shoulder. Those injuries typically require surgery to fully heal, so we’ll see. At this very second, [...]
March 29, 2013
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Thomas Robinson was high a top almost all of the NBA Mock Draft boards last year. So its not a surprise that Rockets fans are jumping out of their seats with joy tonight as word spreads that the Rockets have acquired Robinson in a three team deal before the deadline. The Houston Rockets have reached [...]
February 21, 2013
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Iman Shumpert’s future with the New York Knicks doesn’t appear to be etched in stone. Though star forward Carmelo Anthony and head coach Mike Woodson have stated otherwise, the possibility of the Knicks trading Shumpert has apparently become very real. According to Chris Sheridan of SheridanHoops.com, the second-year guard is increasingly unhappy with his current [...]
February 18, 2013
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