For Chicago big man Pau Gasol, the Bulls’ home matchup with the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday evening represented a unique milestone in the form of his 1,000th career NBA regular-season game. Gasol, now 35 years old, was in a jovial mood on social media as tipoff approached. In fact, the seven-footer even created a special #Pau1000 hashtag to encourage fans to submit videos of their favorite Gasol moments over his first 1,000 games. Today I’ll be playing my 1000 #RegularSeason game & I wanna
It’s an unusual NBA Saturday, getting under way at 1:00 EST with the Nuggets in Philadelphia. Then at 5:00, the mighty Warriors go for win #21 in Toronto. Those two games matter at DraftKings only in Early and All-Day action. [Read more…]
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” -Bruce Lee [Read more…]
We’re a quarter of the way through the regular season and the NBA landscape has shifted dramatically. Kobe Bryant is retiring after this season and wants to be remembered as a “talented overachiever” when it’s all said and done. Meanwhile, Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers (3-15) trail only the Philadelphia 76ers (1-19) for the league’s worst record. With every loss, the Lakers grow closer to keeping their top-three protected draft pick and potentially land top prospect Ben Simmons. On the flip side, the Golden
On Tuesday night, Kobe Bryant played his final game before his hometown crowd in Philadelphia. A rare sellout crowd at the Wells Fargo Center got everything it could’ve hoped for: a flurry of early threes from Bryant that touched off off a hard-fought game and ended in a standing ovation and a rare 76ers victory. The Philadelphia faithful – who had booed Bryant in many past visits – continued to chant “Ko-Be!” after the final buzzer sounded, praising him for a
In the second half of a national TV doubleheader, the Pelicans (losers of four straight) are at home to Cleveland. The Cavs are a solid 13-5 despite shooting just 33.7% in Tuesday’s home loss to the Wizards. [Read more…]
When you think of Jeremy Evans, you immediately think of the high-flyer on the Utah Jazz who won the dunk contest some years ago in impressive fashion. What you don’t think of is Evans (now on the Dallas Mavericks) the talented artist, but it turns out his ability to make art is about as impressive as his ability to dunk, as we learned on Thursday night: I was asked if I still could draw, I had to find out. I drew this on my iPad case.
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” -T. Harv Eker [Read more…]