NBA

July 4, 2012 – Allen Moll Don’t look now Nets fans, but it appears that nearly a decade of bad basketball from the New York area’s “other hoops team”, will thankfully come to an end as GM Billy King and their Russian billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov have begun to build a contender in the Eastern [...]

July 3, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Thought you would all get a kick out of Dirk Nowitzki doing some batting practice warm-ups for the big game. Note to self: NBA players can’t play baseball. That includes you MJ, albeit a hell of a lot better than Dirk. [...]

July 3, 2012 – Dan Favale The Brooklyn Nets threw financial caution to the wind on Monday, agreeing in principle on a deal that brings in Atlanta Hawks All-Star shooting guard Joe Johnson. From Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports: The Nets and Hawks have agreed in principle to complete the Joe Johnson trade, league sources [...]

June 28, 2012 – Dan Favale It was inevitable. As hard as the Los Angeles Lakers tried to create a championship stopgap, their roster simply wasn’t fit for title contention. So let the pillaging begin. [...]

June 21, 2012 – Griffin Gotta The Charlotte Bobcats, with Jerry Sloan out of the running and NBA assistant coaches with experience Brian Shaw and Quin Snyder the most talked about candidates for their vacant head coach position, went down the road less expected with the hiring of St. John’s assistant coach Mike Dunlap. Dunlap, [...]

June 15, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors With the NBA Finals action well underway, and the championship series tied at 1-1, we thought it was a good time to look back at the amazing plays we were witness to in the Conference Finals. Apparently some of these stars in the Finals like Lebron James, Dwyane [...]

June 14, 2012 – Dan Favale Kevin Garnett may toil with the idea of leaving the Boston Celtics only to re-sign with them, but Ray Allen is as good as gone. Allen—the NBA’s all-time leading three-point shooter—is incredibly important to Boston’s offensive game plan. He stretches opposing defenses to the point of wafer thin, has [...]

June 11, 2012 – Dan Favale The NBA finals kick off Tuesday night in Oklahoma City where the Thunder have an opportunity to accomplish something special. [...]

June 8, 2012 – Dan Favale LeBron James foiled the Boston Celtics’ plan to advance to the NBA Finals Thursday night, but moving forward, will his perpetual prowess be enough? [...]

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 [...]