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One play typically doesn’t decide the outcome of a game. Especially when a team is up by 13 with four minutes to play, and up 7 with less than a minute to go. OKC topped the Clippers in game 5 last night, but all anyone is talking about is this controversial out-of-bounds play. It appears [...]

With so much attention around the Knicks, Lakers and Warriors coaching vacancies, we forget about Detroit. All told, it’s not a terrible situation given some of the potential on the roster. According to Yahoo!, the Pistons are making a pretty aggressive run at Stan Van Gundy. Realizing that Golden State is also interested in Van [...]

Donald Sterling sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night and it’s not clear what the purpose was. Was it to apologize or was it to go off on a Magic Johnson tangent?  His intent probably was the former, but Sterling spent way too much time on the latter. Because of all the negative things [...]

I didn’t know apologizing involves bashing other people? On Monday night, Los Angeles Clippers owner (for now) Mr. Donald Sterling sat down with Anderson Cooper of CNN to talk about the racially driven tape scandal that took the NBA and world by storm. It seemed like through the entire interview, NBA hall of famer Magic [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers are in no rush to replace Mike D’Antoni. While plenty of other NBA teams are in a mad dash, searching feverishly for their next head coach, the Lakers are going to take it easy and really dig into to this entire process. That’s the plan, anyway. General manager Mitch Kupchak sat [...]

When he was re-hired by the Cavaliers last offseason, I’m not sure many had high expectations of Mike Brown succeeding. I mean, he was fired for a reason, right? After missing the playoffs by 5 games, Brown has been fired by the Cavs once again. It was rumored during the season that Kyrie Irving wasn’t [...]

Amar’e Stoudemire may, at some point over his last three decades of life, have stayed at a Holiday Inn one night. But that doesn’t mean he parades around claiming to know things he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t. Speaking on ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Cowerd, the New York Knicks forward was asked if he thought [...]

Scouting combines are a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s a way to see how a guy can perform with no one around. It’s evil because it’s an evalutation of how a guy can perform with no one around. Frankly, it’s only necessary for guys on the fringe. For sure-fire lottery picks like Andrew Wiggins, Joel [...]

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Everyone has one of those days, when at the end of it, all you want is a nice, tall, cold water. Er, I mean beer. Or bourbon. Or vodka. Any alcohol really. And why the hell not? Consumed in moderation, cocktails can help alleviate stress. I think. Maybe. For some people, most definitely. Los Angeles [...]