The big news of the week in the industry (whether it was the NBA or journalism) was the Memphis Grizzlies’ hiring of John Hollinger from ESPN.com as their new vice president of basketball operations. He has already made a promise to check out the quality of the concession stand hot dogs as a personal favor. [Read more…]
Even the best free-throw shooters miss once every 10 tries. So it’s difficult to get a long run of consecutive makes going, which brings us to today’s question: Who holds the NBA record for most free throws made in one game without a miss? [Read more…]
My first week of playing daily fantasy games at DraftStreet started out well, but my recent teams were disappointing. It seems one player I’m “sure” about bombs each night; on Saturday it was Josh Smith, who would have won me quite a bit of money with just an average performance. [Read more…]
It’s been a long nine months for Ricky Rubio, his fantasy owners and my fellow Wolves fans. Limited to 19 minutes, he scored 8 PTS, handed out 9 AST — some of them dazzling — and made 3 STL. [Read more…]
A number of clichés might be applied to Mark Cuban, but “flying under the radar” is not one of them. Cuban fielded a Dallas Mavericks team this year that had little if any reason to have high expectations. But, of course, he had grand plans. [Read more…]
Really, it shouldn’t be a shock that a 10-14 team isn’t good. We’re past the point where that could be a huge fluke, right? [Read more…]
Brian Geltzeiler joins Yahoo Sports Radio with Sean Pendergast to discuss the woeful Lakers, Jeremy Lin and the Rockets playoff chances, and the warm embrace of Kevin McHale and Kevin Garnett at the end of the Rockets and Celtics game. [Read more…]
Way back in September, we published our first depth chart. We’ve tried to keep it reasonably accurate with weekly updates, which on most Saturday afternoons are just one part of the Weekly Fantasy Planner by Jeff Nichols. Last week, with Jeff — who does the lion’s share of work tracking changes — on a foreign business trip, I forgot to fill in. Today, there simply isn’t time for much insight. [Read more…]