The day dawned without a single word of disgust on Mark Cuban’s Twitter account. No even an emoji … even a simple one, like a frowning face. Today is the day after DeAndre Jordan reneged on his verbal commitment to the Dallas Mavericks and instead decided to return to the Los Angeles Clippers, keeping Lob City intact and making the Mavs’ decision-makers go back to the drawing board and their analytics tables to debate the relative merits of JaVale McGee and
You wanted fireworks? They began on the morning of the Fourth of July, and they promised to continue going off throughout the day as the NBA reacted to LaMarcus Aldridge choosing the San Antonio Spurs, who have pulled off the free agent coup of the summer. As the holiday began after a dizzying 72 hours, there was only one player left on the board who could be a game-changer in the race for the 2016 NBA title. All indications pointed to the
It was reported late last week that DeAndre Jordan had come to an agreement to sign a four-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks, putting the Los Angeles Clippers in a very difficult position to succeed moving forward without a single center on the roster. The key word in that statement? Agreement. That means Jordan has yet to sign any official deal, which gives him the right to change his mind about where he wants to go. Most had reasonably assumed that his time in
You know your team is a big deal when New York City throws a parade for you. The U.S. Women’s soccer team will be the first female team to be thrown a ticker tape parade after winning the World Cup on Sunday. The American women inspired girls across the country and athletic and apparel companies have taken notice. Nike and ADIDAS outfitted the ladies of the red white and blue with new lines of gear that you can buy today. And
The salary cap rose to $70 million for the 2015-16 season, an increase of 11 percent and nearly $7 million from a year ago, the NBA announced Wednesday night. The cap for next season originally was projected around $67.1 million. Shortly before free agency began, however, CBS Sports reported that the number would be at least $1 million higher and perhaps as much as $2 million higher. In fact, it is $3 million higher, the sort of anecdotal information that will
Yesterday’s main column started with a question: What is the next big surprise? Our answer arrived midday Wednesday. And what a surprise it was. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and coach Doc Rivers turned the NBA on its head by making a last-ditch effort to get DeAndre Jordan to change his mind on his commitment to signing with the Dallas Mavericks, flying to Houston for a sitdown with the seven-year vet. If Jordan were to back out of his verbal commitment to the Mavs,
We celebrate wins and shrug off the losses in DFS. Tuesday did not go according to plan at all — the great Max Scherzer was badly beaten and the Blue Jays didn’t score those dozen runs I’d envisioned. [Read more…]
Let’s be real here for a second. As nice of a job as the San Antonio Spurs did in free agency, along with the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks, does that really make any of them the outright winners? No, it says here. Despite a ton of unfinished business (LeBron James, Tristan Thompson, J.R. Smith and Matthew Dellavedova remain unsigned free agents, and a Brendan Haywood trade is coming), the Cavs are emerging as the biggest winners of the summer for one