Kevin Durant

June 7, 2012 – Dan Favale After a second consecutive improbably dominating regular season, the San Antonio Spurs are once again heading home without a taste of the NBA Finals. So, what now? The Spurs weren’t supposed to have the best record in the league this year. Hell, after Manu Ginobili’s injury, there were probably [...]

June 1, 2012– Dan Favale There’s a certain stigma that has plagued the NBA for years, one that dictates all players are not treated equally. And it’s time for a change. As I watched the Heat surpass the Celtics to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals, I couldn’t help but consider how [...]

May 29, 2012 – Ben Berry Averaging more points in a season than elite NBA players like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James to be the NBA scoring champion of any season is no easy task. Kevin Durant has done it three times. In a row. Impressed yet? Despite being a Nike-sponsored player, this is the [...]

May 28, 2012 – R.S. De France Going into game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, San Antonio Spurs’ Coach Gregg Popovich knew what he would get out of his best players, but not what he would get out of his bench. And Popovich, Coach of the Year, had reason to be skeptical. The young [...]

May 23, 2012 – Griffin Gotta As the Oklahoma City Thunder head to their second appearance in the Western Conference Finals in as many years, the talk will be about how they’re growing up — they are — about how they’re maturing in late-game situations — also true — and about how this crazy season [...]

May 15, 2012 – Dan Favale Barring a myriad of injuries to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Los Angeles Lakers aren’t making it past the second round of the NBA Playoffs. After the Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets in a hard-fought, brutally-played seven game matchup, the prospect of heading to Oklahoma City for a shot [...]

May 15, 2012 – Griffin Gotta If this is what this Western Conference Semis series is going to be, I’m not sure how the Los Angeles Lakers don’t go down in flames. It’s important to remember that Game One is just one game. The Oklahoma City Thunder were sharp and more than ready to be [...]

May 3, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There is no one in the world of modeling that has had a more meteoric rise than Kate Upton. Especially after she got the cover of this years Sports Illustrated’s famed ‘Swimsuit Issue’. Likewise in professional basketball, no one has had a more meteoric rise than the Oklahoma [...]

May 1, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Dallas Mavericks, as believed would happen once the postseason began, have exhibited the toughness, the ability to simply not die, that is necessary in order to advance. After dropping another loss by a thin margin to the Oklahoma City Thunder last night and falling down 2-0 in this [...]

April 26, 2012 – Griffin Gotta A little over four months worth of NBA basketball is in the books. Tonight, the last night of the regular season, pairings and home-court advantage will be etched in stone for the postseason, which promptly begins Saturday following a day for the qualifying teams to get their minds right. [...]