All-Star Weekend in Houston is just over a month away, and the starters for the All-Star Game will be announced Thursday night on TNT. That makes it as good a time as any to reveal what they will be wearing. [Read more…]
We welcome aboard the Kamenetzky brothers, Brian and Andy, who were must-reads at ESPN-Los Angeles but were let go at Christmas by the WorldWide Leader In Shedding Talent. Each week, the Cali Report on Sheridan Hoops will take a trip around the golden state, examining the fortunes of its four teams – CS. [Read more…]
What a great effort by the Trail Blazers to force overtime, where they came up just short. Ty Lawson played through an illness (24 PTS, 11 AST) and Kenneth Faried (21 PTS, 11 REB) crashed the boards as Denver overcame a 4-for-16 night by Andre Iguodala to prevail. [Read more…]
The most consistent knock on the Lakers this season has not been about their offense, but rather their defense. When you put together a team with that many old men, you are not going to beat the young bucks back in transition. But you can beat teams like the young Bucks with a different kind of defense. [Read more…]
Tuesday marks the 84th birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King is best known and widely respected for his efforts in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is most notably recognized for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that he gave on August 23, 1963 during a Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. American society may still have a long way to go before we will have accomplished the goal set forth in that speech … However, without
It seems Deron Williams was very candid about his play and his likely spot in the 2013 All-Star game during pregame media availability tonight at the Barclays Center. Tim Bontemps of the New York Post with the news: [Read more…]
Brian Geltzeiler joins WFAN 101.9 FM/660 AM with Mark Malusis to break down the recent success of the Nets, the Knicks and Carmelo Anthony, the ever struggling Lakers and the Memphis Grizzlies recent slump. [Read more…]
What Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra did Monday night is called coaching. Or was it overcoaching? That’s where the debate lies with his risky and somewhat questionable maneuver. Spoelstra benched All-Star guard Dwyane Wade for the entire fourth quarter of the Heat’s 104-97 loss at Utah. He kept All-Star forward Chris Bosh on the bench for all but the final 40 seconds, when the game was pretty much decided. And he kept starting power forward Udonis Haslem on the bench. [Read more…]