Whoa. All we can say to this is, “Whoa.” Amid all this Phil Jackson and James Dolan business, some of us have forgotten about Carmelo Anthony’s impending free agency. Sort of. It’s been tabled, really. Anthony’s future cannot be dealt with until July, so there’s no use focusing on it now. More pressing things, such [...]
March 14, 2014
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Enough Phil Jackson talk. Let’s discuss Andrea Bargnani. You know Bargs. The bouncy-haired Italian who hasn’t played since Jan. 22. The one the New York Knicks gave up three draft picks, Steve Novak, Marcus Camby and Quentin Richardson for. Yeah, that Bargs. Well, according to Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck, Bargs is with the Knicks largely [...]
March 13, 2014
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If Kobe Bryant’s will be done, then Mike D’Antoni’s tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers will soon be over. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, Bryant wants the Lakers to hire a new coach before next season: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith reported on Wednesday morning that he had heard D’Antoni would be out, and [...]
March 12, 2014
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Phil Jackson apparently wants the world if he’s to sync up with the ever-dysfunctional New York Knicks. Rumors have flooded the airwaves, papers and Internet, most of them pointing toward the same thing: a union between the Zen Master and championship-starved, James Dolan-owned Knicks. But with all that’s going around, you’d have expected it to [...]
March 11, 2014
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Crap. Just crap. My apologies for ruining your day in advance, but according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney—special thanks to Joe Flynn over at Bleacher Report—NBA league executives and “prominent” agents are expecting there to be another lockout in 2017: It is a little more than three years before the NBA’s current collective bargaining [...]
March 6, 2014
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The Miami Heat of tomorrow aren’t going to come cheap. This, of course, will be assuming the Heat of tomorrow still comprise LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. If they do, then it’s going to cost Miami. Truth told, it was always going to cost Miami. Even if each member of the Big Three [...]
February 28, 2014
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Oh, Knicks. Some bad things you believe will get better. The New York Knicks aren’t one of those bad things. Leading up and into the Feb. 20 trade deadline, the Knicks were unable to broker a deal, though not for lack of trying. Iman Shumpert, the injury-prone third-year guard who routinely falls out of favor [...]
February 25, 2014
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Welcome to this side of the NBA All-Star Game, folks. Every year, around this time, with the NBA’s trade deadline swiftly approaching, all hell breaks loose. Rumors start being churned out at an alarming rate and this side of the collective bargaining agreement, typically die before they even really start. As with all things, tread [...]
February 18, 2014
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Blake Griffin seems conflicted. The 2011 NBA Slam Dunk champion is now so much more than his dunks, having developed into a high-profile, I-do-more-than-rock-rims superstar. With that increase in offensive range has come the need for a new identity. Despite fans clamoring for Griffin and other NBA superstar to partake in the slam dunk competition, [...]
February 14, 2014
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The heart wants what the heart wants, and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving had his heart set on Harrison Barnes. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski penned a scathing piece dedicated to the inbred dysfunction and disorder the Cavaliers franchise has come to represent, in which he held nothing back. And I mean nothing. When he [...]
February 13, 2014
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