SAN ANTONIO — Once again Wednesday, LeBron James heaping all the blame and the pressure on himself. His mood was better, his defiance was not manufactured, and he made a lot of good points while making a guarantee that he would play better. Not that the Heat would win Game 4, but that he’d play better. As guarantees go, it is certainly not the boldest one ever made. [Read more…]
When Mike Miller is your best player, you have problems. When LeBron James can’t score 20 points, you have problems. In this video with CineSport’s Brian Clark, we break down those problems and how they manifested themselves Tuesday night in Miami’s 36-point loss to the San Antonio Spurs. [Read more…]
SAN ANTONIO — The King has been reduced to a pawn, so we will spare you another column devoted entirely to the troubles and travails of LeBron James. You can find that elsewhere. All you need to know about the king (lower case is intentional) after the Miami Heat’s 36-point blowout loss in Game 3 of the NBA Finals was that he put the blame squarely on his own shoulders and said “I’m not doing my part.” The eunuching of James
Brian Shaw won five championships in Los Angeles with the Lakers, three as a player and two as an assistant coach. Clippers general manager Gary Sacks likes him, and Lamar Odom has endorsed his hiring. Makes sense, right? Well, nothing ever completely makes sense with the Clippers, where Donald Sterling rules the roost. [Read more…]
The Miami Heat have not lost two consecutive games since January. What happens to them if they drop Game 2? I’ll tell you: They run the risk of becoming mental midgets in Game 3 and then getting swept out of the NBA Finals next Thursday night. Should we expect that to happen? The folks who have 25-1 odds on a San Antonio sweep certainly hope so, but there is still a long, long way to go in this series. [Read more…]
… because they won’t choke on the grandest of stages at the grandest of moments. They are mentally incapable of laying the type of egg that the Indiana Pacers dumped on us all last night. There are more reasons, detailed below — both in print, and in the video below with CineSort’s Noah Coslov. [Read more…]
Everyone on planet Earth has one thing in common today, as we do every day: We are all getting older by the moment. Jason Kidd’s retirement makes that truism hit home a little more, because I have become friendly with Kidd over the years through covering him since he came out of Cal as the kind of freakish point guard the likes of whom had rarely been seen before. When players you have covered for years upon years announce retirements, it
I’ve got the Heat winning Game 7 tonight, then moving on to the NBA Finals and losing to the San Antonio Spurs in 7 games. I’ve had Heat in 7 all along, as have staff columnists Jan Hubbard and Andy Kamenetsky. [Read more…]