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Tonight’s best game: LA Clippers at Portland

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A deep 11-game schedule Tuesday night is highlighted by the Los Angeles Clippers visiting the Portland Trail Blazers, a matchup of teams with difficult upcoming schedules. Portland’s unblemished home record (5-0) will be tested during a tough back-to-back with the Clippers and Orlando Magic on Wednesday. The Clippers (4-2), in their first back-to-back of the season, return home to meet Miami on Wednesday and have their first showdown with the Lakers on Saturday . The Clippers have lost five straight at the Rose

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Hornets pull off big upset, winning by 13 at Denver

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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

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Tonight’s best game: Indiana at Philadelphia

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On the NBA’s six-game slate Monday night, the matchup of Spanish point guards Ricky Rubio and Jose Calderon is tempting. But a battle of top-ranked defenses should be the best game as the Pacers take on the 76ers in Philadelphia. Indiana is off to a 6-2 start and right behind Chicago in the Central Division. It will be facing a Philadelphia team off to a 5-2 start, its best since winning the first 10 games of the 2000-01 season – when

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Sheridan on Howard, Clippers, Durant

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// 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.

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Tonight’s best game: San Antonio at Oklahoma City

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Out of the six games tonight, the best features the Spurs’ visit to the Thunder on NBA-TV as both clubs try to end somewhat shameful streaks. San Antonio remains a perfect 6-0 at home after defeating Denver 121-117 last night, but is still searching for its first road victory of the season. Oklahoma City has had no trouble winning on the road, proving so yesterday with a 98-95 victory over Houston, but are losers of six straight to San Antonio. The Spurs catch

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Heat, Thunder Get Help from their Stars

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The stars came out on Saturday night. LeBron James was back for the Heat, Kevin Durant was draining another game-winning jumper and Blake Griffin was posterizing Ersan Ilyasova. And down in Atlanta, Josh Smith almost did something that no NBA player has done in more than six years. But more on that later. James sat out Thursday’s triple-overtime win at Atlanta with a sprained ankle, joining Dwyane Wade in the thousand-dollar suit club. While Wade remained sidelined Saturday in New Jersey, James let

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Tonight’s best game: Denver at San Antonio

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A pair of first-place teams who figure to be upwardly mobile in the next edition of Mark Heisler’s power rankings meet  Saturday night in San Antonio when the Spurs host the Denver Nuggets. Neither team has a top 20 scorer, a top 20 rebounder or a top 10 assist man. However, both have established themselves as one of the league’s better teams in the early going. The Spurs are fourth in Heisler’s rankings. They have won two in a row, including Thursday’s demolition

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Celts stumble; Bulls streaking, Wizards falling

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  Friday was not a good day for the Boston Celtics. First came David West’s assertion that his supposed free agent snubbing of the C’s was nothing of the kind. Then there was the news that the Celtics withdrew their qualifying offer to Jeff Green in December when they learned he had a heart ailment, making him an unrestricted free agent. And to cap things off, the Celtics had their worst offensive showing of the season in an 87-74 home loss to the

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