NBA

April 18, 2012 – Dan Favale The Orlando Magic are living a nightmare, yet there is an obscure, hard-to-acknowledge silver lining amidst their generous portion of turmoil. After what seemed like a futile effort to convince Dwight Howard to stay went [...]

April 17, 2012 – Dan Favale Life without Kobe Bryant is far from easy, and it’s anything but preferable, yet for the Los Angeles Lakers, the experience is a necessity. [...]

April 16, 2012 – Dan Favale The Knicks lost 93-85 at home to the Heat Sunday afternoon, and are now preparing for Amar’e Stoudemire’s return to the rotation later this week. [...]

April 13, 2012 – Dan Favale Tom Thibodeau and Erik Spoelstra. Both coach contending teams with superior talent, but only one has the guts to rock the boat. The Bulls defeated the Heat 96-86 in an overtime thriller, sans the overtime period. The game had playoff implications, in more ways than one, but it was [...]

April 12, 2012 – Dan Favale The NBA lockout sucked, and so have the many ramifications of its existence, but there is a silver lining to be found between the greed, blatant agendas and absence of amicable compromise. In more ways than one, this season has sucked too. The refereeing has been abysmal, the displays [...]

April 10, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The past week in the NBA has been a wild one. With games between contenders getting serious as many teams are jockeying for playoff positioning, there have been a lot of big plays and late game heroics. Kobe’s game winner, Carmelo’s game tying and game winning shots, Durant [...]

April 9, 2012 – Dan Favale For more than a decade, the Knicks have been void of a presence like the one Carmelo Anthony provided Sunday afternoon. It was a presence that has been so desperately craved since the arrivals of both Amar’e Stoudemire and Anthony, and it’s a presence both players have failed to [...]

This week, Kevin Burke looks back at UK and dissects the MVP race... [...]

April 4, 2012 – Dan Favale The Pacers came raging back to defeat the Knicks on Tuesday night after trailing by 15 to start the fourth quarter, yet, thanks to Danny Granger, that’s not what must be taken away from this game. Indiana outscored New York 40-17 in a quarter where everything went right for [...]

April 3, 2012 – Dan Favale In the NBA, a week can make all the difference, the Clippers are tangible evidence of that. After posting an abysmal 6-10 record coming out of the All-Star break, the Clippers have won six straight, none more impressive than their lopsided victory over the Mavericks in Dallas Monday night. [...]