Metta World Peace does not like the act of flopping. During a very closely-contested game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night, World Peace learned how good of a flopper Gerald Wallace can be. He quickly learned that Reggie Evans can be even better, as shown in the clip below: [Read more…]
Move aside, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant. Jack Taylor is in town…? News broke on Tuesday night that Division III basketball player Taylor of Grinnell men’s team scored a video game-esque 138 points in a single game, breaking the previous NCAA scoring record. I don’t know what kind of game was being played for one player to be able to score that many points, but here is a box score of what happened during the game: [Read more…]
Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star forward Kevin Durant has come a long way with his backpack strapped to his shoulders. He has been sporting a backpack since grade school. From his hometown in Washington D.C. to Austin, Texas, then on to Seattle, Washington and now Oklahoma City. It is not without meaning. [Read more…]
As the Brooklyn Nets (with a five-game winning streak) get set to take on the Los Angeles Lakers on the road tonight, their newly built home court will be occupied by a few players who will be in the discussion for the top pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. And if Otto Porter of Georgetown does to No. 1 Indiana what he did against UCLA, he will have officially stolen the spotlight from Shabazz Muhammad. [Read more…]
Here’s some injury news that isn’t really news at all, because it concerns Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut. The oft-injured Bogut will not play in any of the team’s next three games as he continues to build strength in his surgically repaired left ankle, the team announced Tuesday. [Read more…]
When the season began, I thought the New York Knicks could win 50 games. Having had a three-week look at them, I realize that lofty win total – one they have not reached this century – may be too low. [Read more…]
MIAMI – During last season’s playoffs, at a time when Heat guard Dwyane Wade was struggling in the Eastern Conference finals, I wrote that I’d rather have Celtics guard Rajon Rondo than Wade. Nothing has happened to change that opinion. [Read more…]
Yes, we are rankings-crazy here at the home office, where we are now up to five sets of rankings — MVP, Rookies, NBA Power Rankings, Euroleague Rankings … and now Most Improved. We are so rankings crazy we just used the same word four times in the same sentence. Later in the season, we’ll do the same for Coach of the Year and Sixth Man, which Jamal Crawford has probably already won, right? [Read more…]