If Adam Silver hadn’t dropped the hammer on Donald Sterling Tuesday afternoon by banning him for life, the NBA was going to be in for another rude awakening on Tuesday evening. The Golden State Warriors were in L.A. for game 5 vs. the Clippers last night and they planned on boycotting the game. Not by [...]
April 30, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
Mark Jackson may already be coaching for his next job. The Golden State Warriors head coach has long been considered a potential candidate to lose his job, and recent events haven’t helped his cause. Not only did the Warriors fail to improve upon their sixth-place standing in the Western Conference, but his assistants have been [...]
April 29, 2014
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Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander wants to stick it to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. And we should all love him for it. Ever since Sterling’s (alleged) closed-door, racially charged tirade was made public, calls to action have come in volume. Commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammer on Tuesday, banning Sterling from the NBA [...]
April 29, 2014
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Blogs
Late in the season, the Warriors mysteriously let go of two assistant coaches without providing much of a reason why. The public focus was too much on the playoff push to wonder what was going on. But details have now been made available and it’s more strange than you could’ve imagined. Apparently, Darren Erman was [...]
April 29, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
He’s barely three months on the job and NBA commissioner Adam Silver was faced with one of the biggest decisions that the league has ever seen. He has an owner that seems to repeatedly discriminate against the very people that he employs, if that makes any sense. The NBA and Silver held a press conference [...]
April 29, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
Our friends across the pond, JD Sports, have two new colorways of the classic Nike Air Huarache sneaker on their webstore. Designed by Tinker Hatfield of Air Jordan fame, the Nike Huarache brings the design of a neoprene bootie as the inner lining of a shoe to help with total foot lockdown as well as [...]
April 29, 2014
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Kicks
Last Tuesday, the Indiana Pacers roared back en route to a 101-85 victory, and a series tie, behind the play of All-Star Paul George (27 points and 10 rebounds) keeping the pace, but it was the Pacers bench, Louis Scola (20 points and 7 rebounds) and C.J. Watson (10 points and 2 steals) that helped [...]
April 29, 2014
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R.S. De France
Last night, the Nets dropped game 4 to the Raptors, which evens up this series at 2 games apiece. Home court advantage sometimes players a major role and other times, it has no impact at all. According to Kevin Garnett, he wasn’t that impressed with the crowd’s energy during game 4. It’s not the reason [...]
April 28, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
In light of this recent Donald Sterling revelation, it is becoming more apparent that he is going to have to sell the Los Angeles Clippers. Nobody can make the owner of anything sell against their will, but you will eventually start to see people stop showing up to games. His product won’t be profitable in [...]
April 28, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
The wheels are beginning to turn on the Knicks coaching search. For several weeks now, we heard that Phil Jackson is eying Steve Kerr as the next Knicks head coach. After ousting Mike Woodson and his entire staff last week, the fun has begun. Jackson apparently met and had dinner with Kerr over the weekend [...]
April 28, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors