I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. Sorry, I was channeling my inner Markieff Morris for a second. Things have been weird between he and the Phoenix Suns for a while now. The team traded his brother, Marcus, to the Detroit Pistons, and both of the Morris [...]
August 7, 2015
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The NBA is doing Christmas Day 2015 right. Most likely. Schedule details are starting to trickle out ahead of the league’s official release, and, naturally, it’s the Association’s slate of Christmas Day tilts that are being dispersed first. On Thursday, ESPN.com’s Marc Stein brought word that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will be [...]
August 7, 2015
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With the Heat’s loss to the Raptors last Saturday night, they are now probably heading for an early off-season, unless of course, the Nets lose their last two games. And if the Nets do win at least one of their remaining games—the Heat have no choice but to start looking towards next season and analyze [...]
Here we go again. For the umpteenth time. Rajon Rondo and the Los Angeles Lakers have been linked to one another for a while now. The former is going to be an unrestricted free agent; the latter is in the market for superstars who can both get along with Kobe Bryant and usher in the [...]
April 4, 2015
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Kobe Bryant and Mitch Kupchak are on the same page. It’s just not the page you think. All along it’s been assumed the Los Angeles Lakers would be rabid free-agency players this summer, trying to make the most of Kobe’s fast-fading twilight by throwing money every which way at players of note. While they’ll still [...]
March 9, 2015
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Pat Riley has already collected enough accolades to last a lifetime. At the University of Kentucky—where his jersey is retired—Riley was a first-team All-American and SEC Player of the Year. He was a first-round draft pick of the San Diego Rockets in 1967 and won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972. [...]
March 3, 2015
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The final 20 minutes of the 2015 NBA Trade deadline were pure unadulterated insanity, a mixture of euphoria for NBA fanatics who obsess over trade rumors and player movement (me) and paranoia and panic for NBA GM’s and players. What seemed a few days prior to be a snoozer of trade deadline with what was [...]
February 24, 2015
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Fill in the blank time! Goran Dragic’s future outlook with the Phoenix Suns is [insert one-word description here]. Each of the following words are acceptable: uncertain, bizarre, nonexistent, weird, quirky, punchdrunklove, confusing. There are other passable answers, but we’ll stop there for brevity’s sake. Dragic has long been a rumor-mill staple. He’s slated for free [...]
February 16, 2015
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Goran Dragic’s future with the Phoenix Suns remains unclear beyond this season, but for the last few weeks, maybe even months, it seemed as if, at the very least, he wouldn’t be traded before the Feb. 19 deadline. That sentiment, while not unfounded, may be in question now. Per Gery Woelfel of the Racine Journal [...]
February 12, 2015
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Random NBA free-agency update incoming. Goran Dragic, one of the top prizes of this upcoming summer’s free agency, is still projected to be a hot commodity—specifically for the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers. From USA Today‘s Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt: Goran Dragic, the 28-year-old Phoenix Suns point guard, is no youngster, as he’s [...]
January 20, 2015
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