Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade was limited to 19 minutes on Friday due to flu-like symptoms. But even with the game occurring on the day following New Year’s Eve, Wade wants us to know that the timing of his illness was merely coincidental. [Read more…]
For most players, posting 25 points and 9 rebounds would qualify as a good night. Then again, LeBron James isn’t most players. As a future Hall of Famer who remains the most talented basketball player on the planet, his standard is far higher. [Read more…]
HOUSTON — Dwight Howard wore a T-shirt depicting characters from the movie Step Brothers after Saturday night’s big win over the Los Angeles Clippers. When asked about it in the Rockets’ locker room at Toyota Center, Houston’s star center responded with his usual mix of jovial humor and brutal honesty: “This is Step Brothers,” Howard told the media while laughing. “Me and James [Harden].” In that movie, of course, stars Will Farrell and John C. Reilly often bicker before being forced to put aside their individual
The nearly-perfect Warriors have just one blemish on their 2015-16 record, and they avenged that rare disappointment in fine form on Friday night. [Read more…]
The Warriors entered Saturday an astounding 24-0 after surviving a double-overtime thriller on Friday night against the Celtics. This time, they managed to do it with one of their marquee stars on the sidelines — and that’s bringing even more attention to 35-year-old interim coach Luke Walton. [Read more…]
For Chicago big man Pau Gasol, the Bulls’ home matchup with the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday evening represented a unique milestone in the form of his 1,000th career NBA regular-season game. Gasol, now 35 years old, was in a jovial mood on social media as tipoff approached. In fact, the seven-footer even created a special #Pau1000 hashtag to encourage fans to submit videos of their favorite Gasol moments over his first 1,000 games. Today I’ll be playing my 1000 #RegularSeason game & I wanna
HOUSTON — Entering Wednesday, Kevin McHale had accumulated the best winning percentage of any coach in Rockets franchise history and was mere months removed from somehow guiding his injury-plagued team to an unexpected berth in the Western Conference finals. Before lunch, he was fired. Because of 11 regular-season games. McHale, who was in his fifth season as Houston’s coach, was let go just 11 games into his new three-year, $12 million contract extension. In other words, expectations are high enough that owner
Though the scheduled NBA games went on, the spectacle of Friday night’s terrorist attacks on Paris was evident from almost any angle. [Read more…]