Several months ago, if you were to ask anybody who was paying attention to the possible move of the Sacramento Kings, they would’ve told you that it appeared as if they were headed to Seattle. Everything seemed to be falling in place for Seattle, who is dying for another NBA franchise. However, slowly but surely, [...]
April 30, 2013
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Rumors
Dwight Howard has a decision to make and Steve Nash believes he knows what Superman will do. Nash wants Howard to remain with the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite Dwight’s first season in Hollywood being described by the big man himself as a “nightmare,” Nash is confident that he’ll return. Why? Because he believes Los Angeles [...]
April 30, 2013
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NBA player Jason Collins talks to Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos about his announcement that he is gay. Making him the first North American professional athlete to do so while still active in their sport. Listen through till the end where Collins talks about being a tough physical player and how his style of play [...]
April 30, 2013
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Offbeat
If there is one thing you need to know about Serge Ibaka, its that he is a consummate professional and takes the game very seriously. He’s a winner. So for Ibaka last night to miss this very easy shot at the rim, with no defensive pressure on him, at the buzzer, must be killing him [...]
April 30, 2013
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Whenever a star player goes out with an injury and the team is on a roll, it’s always tough for a coach to figure out how to ease him back into the rotation. Knicks Coach Mike Woodson had to deal with that earlier in the season when the Knicks got off to a hot start [...]
April 29, 2013
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The Chicago Bulls are the walking wounded. Well actually, they’re not special. It seems as if the entire NBA is these days. Derrick Rose is still on the fence and Joakim Noah has battled through a bad foot. And it looks like the Bulls will be without Kirk Hinrich tonight as they try to close [...]
April 29, 2013
Anou Enright
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First openly gay player who is actively playing professional sports in North America? Could this be true? Sometimes you forget after a few former players have come out of the closet, starting with John Amaechi, that no ‘active’ players have yet to do so. Sadly for our society, Wikipedia actually has a list. Well 12 [...]
April 29, 2013
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Brian Shaw had been the Lakers assistant coach for many year and was suspected to be next in line whenever Phil Jackson stepped away. But when Phil actually stepped away a few years ago, Lakers brass passed over Shaw and hired Mike Brown who had no connection to the Lakers at all. Shaw left and [...]
April 29, 2013
Anou Enright
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Somebody pinch Dwight Howard, because he must be dreaming. Following the San Antonio Spurs’ sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Superman called his first, and potentially only, season in Hollywood a “nightmare” (via Brett Pollakoff of NBC Sports’ ProBasketballTalk): “It was like a nightmare,” Howard said. “It [...]
April 29, 2013
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If you don’t know, you better get to know. Stephen Curry is taking the 2013 NBA Playoffs by storm. After Golden State Warriors big man David Lee went down with injury for the remainder of the 2013 playoffs, everyone was saying the Warriors were done. That the Nuggets would sweep the remainder of the series. [...]
April 29, 2013
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