NBA

Derek Fisher apparently doesn’t have unconditional job security with the New York Knicks. No head coach, save for maybe Gregg Popovich in San Antonio, and perhaps Rick Carlisle in Dallas, can necessarily say that about their situation. You don’t get into the NBA coaching game if you’re looking for stability. But Fisher is only in [...]

Goran Dragic does not miss playing for the Phoenix Suns. Amazing how far we’ve come, isn’t it? Dragic sort of revived his career in Phoenix, permanently establishing himself as a star talent at the point guard position during the Suns’ surprising 48-win 2013-14 campaign. But then that season ended. The Suns not only re-signed Eric [...]

Stephen Curry is a warrior. He’s also a Golden State Warrior. Curry re-aggravated a left knee injury against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night that’s been giving him problems over the last two weeks. He missed games against the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets and was limited to just 14 minutes against the Denver [...]

Members of the New York Knicks are beginning to trust, or perhaps express more trust, in, well the New York Knicks. Both the players and head coach Derek Fisher waxed optimism following the Knicks’ 107-101 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night, the team’s second in as many games, both of which have come [...]

Chris Kaman’s continued presence on the Portland Trail Blazers’ sideline is weird. It’s been weird. Never once has it not seemed weird. General manager Neil Olshey tore down an NBA contender after last season, trading Nicolas Batum, willingly bidding farewell to Robin Lopez and Wesley Matthews and constructing the roster around LaMarcus Aldridge’s departure before [...]

Chandler Parsons just cannot seem to get right. The Dallas Mavericks swingman has struggled at points this season as he continues to work his way back from arthroscopic surgery. His minutes and appearances have been closely monitored, and his effective field-goal percentage is the lowest of his career. The Mavericks’ starting lineup has also fared [...]

Never accuse Los Angeles Lakers head coach Byron Scott of delivering veiled messages. You can accuse Hollywood’s head honcho of many things, including ignorance, inadvertently inconsistent messages and just general stubbornness. But you cannot say that he’s afraid to speak his mind, or that his players don’t know exactly how he feels about them, even [...]

Gregg Popovich doesn’t care that he was named NBA’s Coach of the Month for the Western Conference. And if the league wants him to care, it better break open its piggy bank. Because coach Pop won’t give a crap about monthly awards of any kind until they come accompanied with a car or yacht or [...]

When Mo Williams, now 33, signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers over the summer, he had to know that once Kyrie Irving returned from his fractured kneecap, he wouldn’t be a prominent part of the rotation. Or, um, maybe he didn’t know that. Williams has been receiving inconsistent playing time of late, a trend that dates [...]

Oh, hello there, 2016. We almost didn’t see you come in, not with the 2015-16 NBA season unfolding exactly how it wasn’t supposed to. Sure, we knew the Spurs would be really good, even if we didn’t know they’d be historically awesome. We knew the Warriors would be great. We knew the Cavaliers would be, too. [...]