Looks like I was wrong about the Clippers. For now, anyway. They cost me $100 in Vegas when they lost to the Heat, and they convinced me that they are for real — the lightest schedule of all 30 NBA teams notwithstanding — with their subsequent victory over the Lakers last night. I am not going to start predicting a championship ring celebration at one of Donald Sterling’s “dress in all-white” parties, but I will say color me impressed after this decisive
Exclusive: Team USA’s preliminary roster
We told you earlier today that LaMarcus Aldridge is on the verge of being added to the preliminary Team USA roster for the 2012 Olympics. Now we’re reporting something even better: The entire 19-man roster. Here it is, alphabetically, from my impeccable international basketball sources: [Read more…]
Exclusive: LaMarcus Aldridge likely addition to Team USA
The common belief is that USA Basketball will announce a preliminary 18-man roster for the 2012 Olympics later this month. But that belief is flawed. It is more likely the number will be 19, and it will include LaMarcus Aldridge. SheridanHoops.com learned Tuesday that Aldridge is on the verge of being added to the national team roster that will be submitted to FIBA later in January. The Portland Trail Blazers forward has gained the attention of Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski with his
Hornets pull off big upset, winning by 13 at Denver
We begin today with a question for those of you with advanced math skills: What are the odds of a 13-point underdog winning by 13 points? It is a pertinent question as we move toward Friday the 13th (the first of three Friday the 13ths in this leap year preceding 2013), because the New Orleans Hornets’ bad luck streak came to a big end last night in Denver as they stunned the Nuggets 94-81 to snap a six-game losing streak. The Hornets
Sheridan on Howard, Clippers, Durant
// If I was a betting man (and I will be later this week in Las Vegas), I would bet that 85 year old Orlando Magic owner Rich DeVos elects NOT to trade Dwight Howard. To put it delicately, you’re only 85 once. More on that in the video; plus a report on test week for the Clippers and Kevin Durant’s plunge to 4th in the scoring race.
Dwight Howard still wants to be traded
In case you missed it over the weekend, Dwight Howard still wants to be traded, his agent still has permission to talk to only three teams — the Lakers, Nets and Mavericks — and his current team is still better than two-thirds of the NBA. Last night, despite one of the most unproductive games of Howard’s career (he had 0 points and 0 rebounds at halftime), the Magic won in Sacramento to improve to 6-3. The 104-97 victory came on the
Sheridan’s Sunday Power Rankings
The big movers in a positive direction this week are the Sixers, Jazz, Clippers, Hawks and Cavs. Those going southbound include the Magic, Bucks, Warriors and Hornets. As you may have noticed, we have doubled down on Power Rankings on the site. Mark Heisler is doing his own rankings every Wednesday, and he is going to have to learn to write in HTML. Well, on second thought, that’s probably not a good idea. But he will write shorter comments than I will, because
Sheridan: D’Antoni on the hot seat in New York
If Mike D’Antoni’s New York Knicks do not defeat the winless Washington Wizards tonight … Well, as Moke Hamilton pointed out in his Friday column about the Knicks, there is no telling what Jim Dolan might do. But there certainly is a growing vulture culture surrounding the fourth-best team in the Eastern Conference’s worst division following the Knicks’ brutal home loses to the Raptors and Bobcats, and D’Antoni does not enjoy the comfort level he once had when Donnie Walsh was the
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