By Adam Zagoria of ZagsBlog There may not be any NBA basketball this season, but it’s never too early to look ahead to the 2012 NBA Draft (however it will play out) and the potential stars of the future. With that in mind, here’s a look at how five projected top picks have done in the early part of the college season and how they are viewed by NBA scouts. **Anthony Davis, PF, Kentucky Through his first two college games under John Calipari, the 6-foot-10 Davis is
Gibson Column: Euroleague 101 for starving hoops fans
MADRID — With NBA’s nuclear winter upon us, the Euroleague is ready to explode beneficially. That was my first thought. Then I realized that, aside from being incredibly cheesy, it was also incredibly untrue. In the absence of The Association, people will do many things. They will watch more football, dive a little deeper into college basketball, maybe finish that Tom Wolfe book that’s been peering at them from their bedside table for 16 months. They might start volunteering at their kids’
Weijia Column: News from China, and CBA Power Rankings
BEIJING — As one CBA (collective bargaining agreement) goes down, another CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) is just getting ready to fire up. The Chinese season is scheduled to begin Nov. 19. The CBA is a little-known league for American readers, so I will provide you with a preseason power ranking. The defending champs, as always, are accorded the deserved honor of starting the new season atop any power rankings, apart from their new addition of Yi Jianlian. 1. Guangdong Southern Tigers Including Yi, the
Hubbard column: David Stern needs to rediscover the magic of David Stern
In February, David Stern will – pardon the term – celebrate his 28th anniversary as NBA commissioner. It seems doubtful that he will be honored in a halftime ceremony anywhere, although the optimists among us are hoping there will in fact be multiple NBA halftimes. If that is to happen, Stern will have to venture into territory that he hasn’t visited since – well, who knows? For the sake of discussion, let’s settle on the early ’80s at a time when he
Blame game: A few more crumbs, and Stern would have had Hunter
I alluded to this in this morning’s post about nuclear winter, and I’ll expound on it in two more ways here: in print, and via audio. You can bet your bottom dollar that David Stern wanted to have a full, 82-game season, or a fallback 72-game season if it netted him an extra $800 million, which it did. And you can double that bet on the notion that he never knew it would come to this back on June 30 when
Heisler column: Historic Blunder, anyone?
Optimism on life support, or anyone up for a Historic Blunder? Of course, NBA players would be out of their gourds to reject 50 percent of revenue because it’s not 51 percent, a difference of, oh, $400 million over 10 years … compared to the $780 million they lose in a 50-game season … or $2 billion if there’s no season. Who lets these guys out without babysitters? Of course, that also applies to the owners who are threatening to shut down for
Gibson Column: Barcelona Dominates And Rony Seikaly Heats Up The Club
BARCELONA — Bo McCalebb stands to Andrei Kirilenko’s left with Macedonia’s flag draped around his neck. Several feet to Bo’s left, just past Tony Parker and right before Pau Gasol is Juan Carlos Navarro, still wearing his number seven España jersey and smiling weakly. Both Bo and La Bomba are holding onto their All EuroBasket trophies, the undeniable heroes of the summer. But only Navarro waits on a medal. A gold one, in fact. That’s how it works when you’re a
Bernucca column: Questions for 30 teams after lockout ends
You know what it smells like? Victory. Victory for the owners. And you know what else? Some day, this war is gonna end. When it does, all 30 teams, from the champs to the chumps, will have limited time to find the answers to their most burning questions in what will be an extremely abbreviated offseason activity period. So let’s look at those questions, along with some answers. ATLANTA: Is one ball enough? It says here that the Hawks should dump either Jamal Crawford through
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