Kawhi Leonard has been one of the best all-around players in the league this season and if it wasn’t for a certain Baby-faced Assassin in Golden State, he might have been the favorite to win the MVP award. After another home victory against the Miami Heat on Wednesday, the San Antonio Spurs are 60-11 on the season and a league best 36-0 at home. Leonard starred in the game with 32 points, eight rebounds, a steal and a block before leaving
Discussing the state of the modern NBA big man in a USA Today story on Monday night, Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard said, “It’s really like we’re dinosaurs, and they’re trying to extinct us.” Like any creature, company or concept claiming to face extinction, big men around the league should follow the wise words of Charles Darwin: adapt or die. And adapting is exactly what Charlotte center Al Jefferson did, which is one of the many reasons why the Hornets are the Eastern Conference’s hottest
Club basketball in Europe is currently booming with the highest level tier and most prestigious competition, the Euroleague experiencing rising attendances, greater commercial income and more global fans than ever before. The Euroleague is now second only to the National Basketball Association (NBA) in terms of profitability. Since its inception back in 2000, the competition has played a key role in increasing the popularity of the game in traditional basketball hotbeds such as Spain, Turkey and Greece and new territories
A superb matchup between Stephen Curry $10500 and Chris Paul $9700 is as exciting in daily fantasy as it is in real life. CP3 and DeAndre Jordan $7700 have dropped three of four on this disappointing road trip, while the Warriors never lose at home. [Read more…]
Long-time sideline reporter Craig Sager has shown tremendous courage over the last couple of years battling acute myeloid leukemia. Sadly, a clip of his interview with Bernard Goldberg of HBO’s Real Sports surfaced, and it revealed news about Sager’s current condition, one that everyone wished wasn’t true: [Read more…]
LeBron James supposedly unfollowed the Cavs on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. And this is major news. You know, in this business all journalists are supposed to be neutral. Sportswriters go to practices, attend games, speak to the players in locker rooms and tell stories based upon that special access. Once everyone has fulfilled their obligations, the players and the media get to go about their normal lives until reconvening again the next day … then the next … and the
We have only four NBA games to consider this evening. Russell Westbrook $10600 is poised to notch another triple-double as Oklahoma City hosts the Rockets, after Kevin Durant $10400 (elbow) skipped practice yesterday. [Read more…]
LeBron James notched a triple-double against the Denver Nuggets on Monday, but the primary subject of discussion after the game had nothing to do with his performance on the court and everything to do with what he did with his phone. It was revealed early during the day that the forward, for whatever reason, unfollowed the official Cleveland Cavaliers twitter account. Expecting some kind of explanation, a reporter asked James after the game why he decided to unfollow his team’s account, to