What do you do when you have a life-altering decision to make? Some decide to air that decision live on ESPN (and get destroyed for it for years to come). Others decide to get away from things for a while to clear their minds. Dwight Howard has chosen to go with the latter and disappear for a little while to help him come up with the decision that will alter the look of many teams come next season. Details of what took
The Los Angeles Clippers retooled their lineup with strong perimeter threats on Tuesday when they acquired the services of Jared Dudley and J.J. Redick in a three-team deal involving the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks. Be sure to click here for Chris Bernucca’s report on the details of the trade. Clearly, the Clippers came out as the strongest team out of the deal. With Chris Paul signed up for five seasons, promising guard Eric Bledsoe became expendable for the Clippers. They
Put Tyreke Evans among the list of guards out of the 2009 Draft to be looking at a four-year, $40-plus million offer. Although it came a season after his peers like Jrue Holiday, Stephen Curry and Ty Lawson, Evans was offered a very lucrative deal late on Monday (to the surprise of many) to join the New Orleans Pelicans. The question is this: is he worth or deserving of such a deal? Evans showed much promise as a rookie, when he joined LeBron James
The 2013 summer of free agency has officially begun, and it has been a chaotic 24 hours, to say the least. Players all around the league have been on the phone or traveling to find their next destination. The biggest name – Dwight Howard – is still in the process of meeting various teams, while the other big name in Chris Paul has already made the decision to stick with the Los Angeles Clippers. Those are just two of many, many
When Doc Rivers made the decision to leave the Boston Celtics to join the Los Angeles Clippers, Bill Simmons was quick to point out that the coach simply chose to quit on his now-former team. As a part of the analyst crew for ESPN, Simmons has the right to state his opinion on what he believes happened. Unfortunately for him, that sentiment also rings true for Rivers, who fired back at Simmons by calling him an idiot (pretty much) during the
When Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov became the majority owner of the team, he made a promise that raised plenty of eyebrows: the Nets will win a championship in five years. It sounded like an impossible promise for a team that had been so awful ever since the departure of Jason Kidd back in the 2007-2008 season. Slowly but surely, though, Prokhorov made sure that his words would prove to be meaningful by building a new arena to help attract free
The biggest story line of the 2013 NBA Draft was supposed to be about who would go as the No. 1 pick and where Nerlens Noel would end up. It looked to lean that way when the Cleveland Cavaliers went with Anthony Bennett – a surprise to many – and Noel shockingly dropped all the way down to the New Orleans Pelicans at No. 6. The biggest bombshell of the night, however, came from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports: [Read more…]
The Los Angeles Lakers have plenty of issues to iron out over the summer, which includes figuring out how to get Dwight Howard to stay with the team for the long haul after all the drama they went through this past season. One less player they have to concern themselves with is forward Metta World Peace, who has decided to stay put with the team for another season. Sam Amick of USA Today reported the details on Tuesday: [Read more…]