Josh Smith

There was a time not long ago that Josh Smith was a max contract player and seen as one of the most exciting young talents at the forward position in the NBA. Fast forward to the 2016-17 NBA season and Smith is nowhere to be seen, relegated to playing in China at the age of [...]

Josh Smith was once one of the more exciting players in the league, while thriving in Atlanta. But he hasn’t found any luck since leaving the Hawks. He has bounced around quite a bit, all while shooting ill-advised 3s, and now he’s without a team. When we last saw Smith last season, he was coming [...]

As the NBA’s salary cap increases, so too will the use of the stretch provision. In a nutshell, the stretch provision allows teams to part ways with bad investments and ill-fit partnerships while easing the financial burden of dissolution. It works like this: Teams can waive a player and then spread the remaining value of [...]

Josh Smith should better gauge the company he stands amongst in the future. Smith was officially introduced as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers this week after agreeing to sign a contract for the veteran’s minimum, per the Orange County Register‘s Dan Woike: Clippers deal with Josh Smith is for the minimum – despite [...]

Josh Smith may not be the most reliable player on the offensive end, however, his defense and physicality was surely something that the Los Angeles Clippers desperately need. The former Rockets forward is reportedly taking his talents someplace else, and that place is going to be at the City of Angels with Chris Paul and [...]

It was a thrilling Wednesday night, between two of the best teams in the western conference, as the Rockets visited the Blazers. Both teams played with a sense of purpose all throughout, however, the Blazers managed to hold the Rockets off at the very end to come out with a 105-100 victory. LaMarcus Aldridge led [...]

It was an intense up-tempo match between the Rockets and Suns on Tuesday night as both teams were clearly playing with a sense of purpose. However, James Harden decided to explode for 20 points in the final period to lead his team to victory with the final score of 127-118, finishing with a game-high of [...]

This season, Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal told USA Today that himself and Wall are, “definitely the best backcourt in the league.” But, after his dismissal from the Warriors, former Head Coach Mark Jackson called Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry the, “greatest shooting backcourt in the history of the game.” Since then, the question of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]