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Pacers Interested in Trading for Greg Monroe

Pacers Interested in Trading for Greg Monroe

Losing Paul George has apparently clouded the Indiana Pacers’ sense of logical and illogical. According Detroit Sports 105.1’s Matt Dery, the Pacers are still shopping Roy Hibbert and have their sights sets on the Detroit Pistons’ Greg Monroe: [tweet https://twitter.com/dery1051/statuses/498545446940585984] This is—one of my favorite, most frequently used words incoming—weird. Some people might even call [...]

August 12, 2014 admin Blogs 0

Greg Monroe Doesn’t Want to Play for Pistons in 2014-15

Greg Monroe Doesn’t Want to Play for Pistons in 2014-15

Unconventional Woj bomb incoming. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports was interviewed by blogger Aime Mukendi Jr. while at coach Mark Schmidt’s summer camp at St. Bonaventure. During the interview—which was pointed out to us by Hawks Hoops’ Buddy Grizzard and can be listened to here—Woj, well, he Woj-bombed all over the place about Greg Monroe’s [...]

August 1, 2014 admin Blogs 0

Pistons, Kings Talking Josh Smith Trade Again

Pistons, Kings Talking Josh Smith Trade Again

No, you’re not experiencing deja vu. This is just a firsthand run-in with the Sacramento Kings. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Detroit Pistons have resumed talks—that started prior to the NBA draft—with the Kings on a trade that would land Josh Smith in Sacramento: The Detroit Pistons and the Sacramento Kings have resumed trade [...]

July 18, 2014 admin Blogs 0

Jodie Meeks Is Headed To Detroit

Jodie Meeks Is Headed To Detroit

Coming off his best season as an NBA pro, Lakers guard Jodie Meeks has made a decision to leave LA and agree to a three-year, $19.5 million contract with the Detroit Pistons, according Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. The former Kentucky Wildcat averaged 15.7 points per game and was shooting 40.1 percent beyond the arc [...]

July 2, 2014 admin Benjamin Felix Santos 0

NBA Power Rankings: Let the Playoffs Begin (Finally)

NBA Power Rankings: Let the Playoffs Begin (Finally)

Folks, you made it. Congratulations. The NBA regular season is over. It’s done. Finished. Finito. And good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, this season was crazy. Downright exciting. But it also sucked. It sucked so freaking hard. More than it’s sucked in the past few years. Did it rival the 2011-12 lockout-truncated season? Shit, I [...]

April 17, 2014 admin Power Rankings 1

NBA Power Rankings: Welcome to the Pacers’ Nightmare

NBA Power Rankings: Welcome to the Pacers’ Nightmare

Things are getting tense in the NBA. Months of playing and winning and losing and tanking and contending and injuries and comebacks and other stuff have come down to this: two-plus weeks of season-defining basketball. Some teams are battling for postseason seeding. Others are fighting for playoff survival, looking to snag a last-minute berth. A [...]

April 2, 2014 admin Power Rankings 0

NBA Power Rankings: Unpolished Trust Meter Edition

NBA Power Rankings: Unpolished Trust Meter Edition

Put your trust in this week’s edition of NBA Power Rankings. With the regular season drawing to a  close, it’s really time to start putting things in perspective. Quite randomly, I stumbled upon the idea to develop an unpolished trust meter for every team, good and bad, tanker and contender, the Philadelphia 76ers and San [...]

March 26, 2014 admin Power Rankings 2

NBA Power Rankings: Wrath of the Spurs, Pain of the Thunder

NBA Power Rankings: Wrath of the Spurs, Pain of the Thunder

March Madness, here the NBA comes. While many of you remain transfixed on your television screens, waiting to see how long it takes before Wichita State gets screwed by vengeful and begrudging bracketing practices, some of us still care about the NBA. And its playoff race. And whether or not LeBron James can win another [...]

March 19, 2014 admin Power Rankings 0

NBA Power Rankings: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen

NBA Power Rankings: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen

Three cheers, eight fist-pumps and infinite twerks for movement. The NBA is rife with movement this week. Goliaths fell, Davids ascended and the enfeebled experienced success. Translation: It’s been weird in the NBA lately. (Spoiler alert.) (Seriously.) (Don’t read what comes next if you don’t want to ruin the below contents.) (I’m not joking.) (Okay, [...]

March 12, 2014 admin Power Rankings 0

J-Smoove Says Teaming Up With Rondo Would Be ‘Surreal’

J-Smoove Says Teaming Up With Rondo Would Be ‘Surreal’

Could the next great NBA dyad already be planning an inevitable union? Don’t count on it, in part because Josh Smith and Rajon Rondo wouldn’t qualify as one of the great pairings; mostly because it’s just not going to happen. Before the Boston Celtics handed the Detroit Pistons another loss on Sunday evening, Smith openly [...]

March 10, 2014 admin Blogs 0