The Denver Nuggets fired Brian Shaw, and neither Kevin Garnett nor David West is okay with it. West played under Shaw while he was an assistant with the Indiana Pacers. Shortly after the news broke on Tuesday, he was asked to respond. And so he did. Per Vigilant Sports’ Scott Agness: [tweet https://twitter.com/ScottAgness/status/572822756879945728] But David, [...]
March 5, 2015
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Kevin Garnett is the man. That is, now that he’s back on the Minnesota Timberwolves. It was easy for him to get under your skin after he left Minnesota the first time, whether he was with the Boston Celtics or Brooklyn Nets. It didn’t matter if you were rooting for another team that night or [...]
March 2, 2015
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After taking care of the Los Angeles Clippers, 90-87, last Monday night, the Memphis Grizzlies had quietly recorded the 3rd best record in the NBA this season at 42-16 (72.4%), just behind the 47-12 Atlanta Hawks and the 45-11 Golden State Warriors. In that hotly contested game, Chris Paul powered the Clippers on both ends [...]
March 2, 2015
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In the standings the Timberwolves are the second-worst team in the league at a record of 11-42 for the first half of the season. There’s honestly not much to look forward to anymore except the upcoming draft lottery and of course the development of their young guns like Andrew Wiggins and Zach Lavine, the keys [...]
February 19, 2015
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In 2013, DeAndre Jordan talked about his need improve and added, “I know that defensively it starts with me down there.” At the time, Jordan averaged 1.4 blocks per game and 0.6 steals. Today, Jordan had taken his defensive game to a new level, blocking 2.4 shots per game and grabbing 0.9 spg. On the [...]
February 12, 2015
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Kevin Garnett is soooooooo suspended. Midway through the first quarter of Monday night’s bout between the Brooklyn Nets and Houston Rockets, Garnett got into it with Dwight Howard, because, well, Garnett has a tendency to get into it with a lot of people. Devin Kharpertian of The Brooklyn Game described the scene: It didn’t take [...]
January 12, 2015
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We all know how much intensity Kevin Garnett plays with in every game. He’ll do just about anything to make sure his team wins, even pulling off a Lance Stephenson-esque ear blowing move. And it actually worked. In their game versus the visiting Pacers on Saturday night, Garnett blew in the ear of veteran forward [...]
December 28, 2014
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Teammates who won an NBA championship are forever linked to one another. Not to mention forever texting one another. Paul Pierce revealed that he, Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett and Kendrick Perkins, who all won a 2008 title with the Celtics, still talk frequently, specifically within a group text message that, given no other context, is [...]
December 8, 2014
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As the 2014-2015 NBA season gets underway, everyone already wants to know how it will end. Will the San Antonio Spurs repeat? Will Cleveland finally win one? When will big market franchises in the basement (Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, and the Philadelphia 76ers) return to contention? Back on top, the Spurs [...]
November 15, 2014
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Paul Pierce made the Brooklyn Nets look confusing. It was barely a year ago that the Nets were selling fans on a mortgaged future because it meant the arrivals of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Kidd. Two of those guys are now gone, the most noteworthy of whom is Pierce. He left for the [...]
September 23, 2014
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