NBA

Max contracts usually solve everything, just not in the case of Eric Gordon. After receiving a four-year deal worth $58 million from the New Orleans Hornets this past summer, Gordon has pouted, been injured and, most recently, engaged in a shouting match with head coach Monty Williams. Oh, and he’s essentially been put back on [...]

Pretty much everything we know about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Metta World Peace defies sheer logic, so it should come as no surprise that he’s planning on returning to the court soon. Really soon. Like now. Okay, it’s still surprising. Per Sam Amick of USA Today,World Peace plans to suit up and ultimately play in [...]

Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before, because I know you have. With the Dallas Mavericks unlikely to make the NBA playoffs this season, and Dirk Nowitzki eligible to become a free agent after next year, it’s about time we turned his future in Big D into a hot mess. Okay, it really [...]

More fuel has been added to the “Fire Byron Scott” fire in Cleveland. When asked if he supports the Cleveland Cavaliers’ head coach, Kyrie Irving declined to go into any detail (via Tom Reed of The Plain Dealer): There’s ample speculation about the future of coach Byron Scott with the Cavaliers, but his star player [...]

Kevin Durant would like to bestow the NBA’s scoring title upon Carmelo Anthony. Okay, that’s a bit much, but he doesn’t mind if Anthony winds up winning it. Per Royce Young of dailythunder.com, Melo can have the scoring title if he wants it: KD on the scoring title race with Carmelo Anthony: “He can have [...]

Well, this doesn’t look pretty. Late in the second quarter of the Denver Nuggets’ eventual win over the Dallas Mavericks, Danilo Gallinari took Dirk Nowitzki off the dribble with his left hand when suddenly, what seemed like an open path to the basket turned into a potentially season-ending injury. Gallo’s left knee buckled in toward [...]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich expressed regret over Mike Rice’s situation at Rutgers. He also seems to understand. Rice was terminated by Rutgers after a video surfaced of him cursing, essentially assaulting and throwing balls at his players. Based upon recently revealed information and a review of previously discovered issues, Rutgers has terminated [...]

If you wanted the Los Angeles Lakers to sign Mike D’Antoni over Phil Jackson, you were like me. Together, we were also two of the few. But that’s neither he nor there anymore. Choosing Jackson over D’Antoni wouldn’t have been a bad decision. I was (and still am) just of the mind that the organization [...]

It’s time we followed in Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s footsteps, and just let it all go. There’s something I never thought I’d write. After three championships worth of animosity, the Los Angeles Lakers mercifully split these two up when Shaq was traded to the Miami Heat in 2004. Perhaps “mercifully” isn’t the right word, [...]

And you thought Doc Rivers didn’t have a sense of humor. Following the Boston Celtics’ loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rivers played an April Fools joke on reporters. Doc to us reporters after the game — “I really like you guys…April Fools!” — Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) April 2, 2013 Rivers can often be seen looking [...]