Have the Knicks regressed to the mean? From here, it kind of looks that way. No doubt they are a good basketball team. But since beginning the season with a blistering 18-6 record, the Knicks have gone just 10-9 and enter play February 1 as the second seed in the Eastern Conference. Still, with just three games separating the Knicks from the sixth-seeded Atlanta Hawks and the trade winds swirling around the NBA – you know, with it being February and all
SheridanHoopsRadio is back with a loaded show. Hosts Chris Sheridan and Brian Geltzeiler will be joined by Pacers President of Basketball Operations Donnie Walsh, SI.com’s Rob Mahoney, and SheridanHoops.com’s own Jeremy Bauman and Joe Kotoch. [Read more…]
NBA Players Association executive director Billy Hunter has been placed on indefinite leave, the first step in removing the embattled union chief from his position. The news comes from both Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports and the NBC Sports Network. Hunter has been temporarily replaced by union general counsel Ron Klempner. [Read more…]
Apologies for the absence of a trivia question yesterday. Gremlins were running amok, Sheridan was breaking in a new laptop, and somewhere out there in the ether is that mystery question. Here is today’s: [Read more…]
This was an exciting week for the NBA. There has been a steady supply of great games, such as Dallas at Golden State on Thursday night. Great stories have developed, including the renaming of the New Orleans Hornets, who will adopt the name of their state bird. Ryan Anderson, who has proved all doubters wrong since his move to NOLA, will be a Pelican next season. And lastly, the trade that sent Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors has people buzzing. [Read more…]
While we probably won’t approach last Friday’s record of 1,068 teams, the Sheridan Hoops Freeroll has more than 600 entries already, and it doesn’t close until 7:00 EST. [Read more…]
It is not often that we devote serious attention to regular season NCAA games, but this weekend is different. We’ve got Zeller 2.0 plus the sons of former NBA stars Glenn Robinson and Tim Hardaway all on the same court when the No. 1 Michigan Wolverines play the No. 3 Indiana Hoosiers in Bloomington, Indiana. If I predicted this would happen, say, three years ago, the only people who might have agreed that they could see this coming would have been John Beilein,
The trade fallout is still settling for the three teams involved. Jose Calderon is the most likely to appear in his new uniform this evening; media reports in Toronto suggest that Rudy Gay won’t arrive until late afternoon and will definitely not make his Raptors debut until Sunday. [Read more…]