Monday, January 6 was a relatively slow day In the NBA, with just six teams taking part in three games. Nevertheless, there were extraordinary feats by the franchises and players involved in the action on the sixth day of 2014. Here’s everything that you need to know about last night’s action. [Read more…]
The Golden State Warriors have been balling out of control lately. Winners of nine straight, the Warriors are averaging just over 105 points and 49 rebounds per contest. The last four games of that stretch—spanning from Tuesday, December 31st through Sunday, January 5th—have been a clean sweep of four Southeast divisional opponents, including a blazing 123-114 win over the two-time defending champion Miami Heat. Helping to spearhead this phenomenal streak has been the play of nine-year veteran power forward David Lee, who was
Mitch Kupchak shouldn’t be playing hardball. In his desire to trade Pau Gasol, the GM of the Los Angeles Lakers should not have insisted on receiving Dion Waiters or a first-round pick from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nobody has overpaid for a rental since Ernie Grunfeld sent Ray Allen to Seattle for Gary Payton — and that was a long time ago. Kupchak should have lowered his demands to match the team’s expectations. The Lakers are done for this season and should be
Aided by the absence of Kyrie Irving/CLE, the Pacers narrowly beat the Cavaliers . The Heat held off the Raptors at home to end Toronto’s winning streak. In the nightcap, Pau Gasol/LAL and Kendall Marshall/LAL posted excellent stat lines, but the Lakers’ defense was non-existent and the Nuggets blasted them 137-115. The Thunder didn’t need Kevin Durant/OKC for much of the fourth quarter as they handled the visiting Celtics easily. Overall, the road teams won five out of the seven
Throw a dart at their schedule, and at any particular moment the Denver Nuggets could look like the worst team in basketball or a monumental success. They opened 1-4, won 10 of their next 12, then not long after dropped eight straight. In the aggregate, Denver is more or less what people figured — a good-but-not-great team capable of making the playoffs, but certainly no lock to do so. The bigger question for the Nuggets going forward is whether they made the
It’s a new year, and fresh faces are rising to the occasion and cashing in on the golden opportunity of a fresh start. Two former first-round draft choices and a second-rounder all went off to post career-best performances. Here’s everything that you need to know about last night’s action. [Read more…]
As an action packed weekend of basketball comes to a close, here’s the good, bad and the ugly of what took place. [Read more…]
As Sunday night winds down, the desired time that both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers had hoped to complete a deal involving Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol has almost expired. Bynum’s contract becomes fully guaranteed Tuesday afternoon at 5:00pm EST, so there is still time to complete a deal, but all parties involved would like such a transaction to happen sooner rather than later to allow time for everything to clear. Sometimes that process can take up to 48