What a night for Carmelo Anthony. Amid “MVP” chants from Knicks fans in the Brooklyn crowd, Melo drained a season-high 45 points to spark a thrilling, come-from-behind victory. Jason Kidd (18 PTS, 6 REB, 6 AST) was the last-minute hero, his sixth 3-pointer providing the winning margin. The Nets roared out to a 30-16 lead in the first and played their hearts out all night, though 4-of-18 shooting from beyond the arc eventually did them in. Deron Williams (18 PTS,
For every Blazer fan who asked Who? when his team traded Raymond Felton and Kurt Thomas to the Knicks for Kostas Papanikolaou and Georgios Printezis, it’s officially time to be OK with that. [Read more…]
MIAMI – When is it appropriate to sound the alarm of concern during the regular season? The Miami Heat are struggling with that question right now. [Read more…]
It’s not Chris Sheridan’s fault. He didn’t know what he was getting into when he handed this column over to me, one of the top five most improved human beings on the face of the Earth. He didn’t know that I could barely read in 10th grade, but that my diligence and perseverance has make me grammar better so much. He couldn’t possibly have known that I successfully debated Mookie Blaylock’s candidacy for Most Improved Player in week three of the 1994-95 NBA season
Remember the IZOD Center (a.k.a The Meadowlands)? The unhallowed swampland that served as home to the New Jersey Nets? Well, basketball was welcomed back to the area with an early season matchup between Temple and Duke. [Read more…]
Betcha didn’t know that two of the three youngest players in NBA history were Lakers – Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum. Moving on to today’s stumper: Name the player who spent two years in the NBA, then went on to a 19-year career as a productive major league pitcher. [Read more…]
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