Slow Start

Are you expecting the Oklahoma City Thunder to start in-fighting or turn on each other or sour on their general situation in light of their disastrous 8-12? Well, you shouldn’t. Because they won’t. Not now. Oklahoma City’s head coach, Billy Donovan, and Carmelo Anthony went long on Thursday talking about the team’s struggles. Everyone is [...]

Lonzo Ball has a fan in head coach Doc Rivers. In advance of his team’s victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday, the Los Angeles Clippers’ head coach told reporters he has extremely high hopes for Hollywood’s headlining rookie, per Lakers.com’s Mike Trudell: Doc Rivers says he’s very high on @ZO2_: “He’s not (just) [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the NBA’s most bizarre team. They have the league’s sixth-best net rating, behind only the Portland Trail Blazers, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors, according to NBA.com. They have three stars in Carmelo Anthony, Paul George and Russell Westbrook. They rank third in points allowed per [...]

January 4, 2011 – Joshua Sexton For a moment, let’s go back to the 2009 Western Conference Playoffs. The Rockets had just lost game three of their semi-final playoff series to the eventual champion Lakers. Even more crippling than the loss to Los Angeles was the injury Yao suffered in the process. In the game [...]