LAS VEGAS- At the Las Vegas Summer League, wins and losses are as important as the Sacramento’s 2014 championship banner hanging near the players’ tunnel at the Thomas & Mack Center. Summer League is more about learning, development and progression. For D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle, the Los Angeles Lakers’ top two young players, Monday’s 76-66 loss to the Knicks was a struggle to say the least. The lower bowl was packed with fans clad in purple and gold, excited to
Russell Westbrook is one of the most intriguing, explosive talents the league has to offer and certainly has a strong personality to boot. You will see him soaring and roaring like few can at his position, celebrates rather ferociously whenever he knocks down a big three-point shot and will give you the coldest death stare you’ll ever see if you do not return one of his high-fives. An overseas player who simply goes by the username of @BdotAdot5 on twitter took notice of
LAS VEGAS– The people at the NBA who make the schedule for its annual Summer League don’t do anything by accident. For the second year in a row, the featured game on the first day of action pitted this year’s top two draft picks against one another. So Sunday afternoon’s matchup between the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings was meant to be an awkward, bittersweet affair. In the middle of it all was Mike Malone. Fired in the middle of last
“Fuhgetaboutit!” That’s what Brooklyn Nets fans were saying on Twitter when the team announced it had agreed to terms with Andrea Bargnani. Nets fans in Little Italy applauded the move. The agreement is reportedly a two-year deal for the veteran’s minimum salary, according to the New York Post. The second year of the deal is a player option. Barring a catastrophically bad season, Bargnani would opt out after this season. Fans of the Toronto Raptors and New York Knicks may laugh at the signing,
No player encapsulates the plight of the New York Knicks quite like Andrea Bargnani. Acquired from the Raptors for a preposterously high price, he was supposed to provide floor spacing as a 3-point shooting big man, though his shooting numbers had been on a steady decline. He certainly didn’t endear himself to fans in his first season with an abysmal 27.8 percent shooting mark from 3-point range, or with bonehead plays like this: Now he’s no longer a Knick, and, apart
LAS VEGAS– In a free agency period where LaMarcus Aldridge took what seemed like two dozen meetings and DeAndre Jordan’s recruiting process turned into the most bizarre sequences in years, the Toronto Raptors lured prized wing DeMarre Carroll away from the Atlanta Hawks before he left to meet with anyone else. So how did they do it? Well, $60 million over four years certainly helped. But it was more than that. SheridanHoops conducted one-on-one interviews with Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri, coach Dwane
LAS VEGAS– Thousands of Knicks fans filled the bottom half of the lower bowl inside the Thomas & Mack Center at 1:30 in the afternoon, desperate for something to be optimistic about. Sadly, the Summer League New York Knicks squad had a lot of familiar faces from the 17-win squad, the team’s worst season ever. The one major change was a 7-1 teenage Latvian named Kristaps Porzingis, the fourth overall pick in this year’s draft. After a rude reception on draft night,
Sunday is usually getaway day for most baseball teams and all umpiring crews. Everyone will be looking forward to the four-day All-Star break. It’s also get-even day in DFS for those of us with weekly budgets. [Read more…]