At a certain point in the next few days, you will get burned out from watching college basketball. Usually, it happens after the first two days when you realize your bracket has no chance of being the winner. At which point you tune back to your old faithfuls, like Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, or the good, old NBA. There is an air of uncertainty as we head into this weekend’s games, and it revolves around the Chicago Bulls. [Read
I touched on this in yesterday’s MVP rankings, and I did it again in this interview with CineSport’s Noh Coslov. I called Chris Andersen the “missing link” for the Miami Heat, and you can add your own joke if you like. [Read more…]
Frank Vogel conceded the Eastern Conference to the Miami Heat on Saturday night prior to his Indiana Pacers’ loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, stating the obvious — there is no hope of catching LeBron James and Co. for the No. 1 seed. This came one day after Pacers point guard George Hill, an Indianapolis native, criticized the local fans because so many of them were cheering for the Lakers during their visit to Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Friday night. You look southward
Quite the night it was Wednesday in the NBA, from Miami reaching 20 consecutive wins to Denver reaching 10 in a row to Kobe spraining his ankle and then e-mailing his favorite national columnist to whine about what he claims was a dirty play by Dahntay Jones. So let’s look a little further into each of those items. _ Everyone is now looking at the Heat’s upcoming schedule (they are currently one game into a five-game road trip) and wondering if they
PHILADELPHIA — Only one guy in the Miami Heat locker room has been there, done this. And no, we are not including LeBron James and his 36-game winning streak at St. Vincent-St. Mary’s High School in Akron. The only guy who has been through a stretch like this is Shane Battier, who was a member of the 2007-08 Houston Rockets team that strung together 22 consecutive victories — the second longest in NBA history. [Read more…]
Maybe it is premature, but maybe it isn’t — especially with the way the Miami Heat looked Sunday in dismantling the Indiana Pacers, giving them a victory over each of the other 29 NBA teams. Can they break the NBA record of 33 consecutive regular season victories? [Read more…]
The theme of today’s Power Rankings is springing forward. And, to a lesser degree, falling back. The clock on the wall said 5:15 this morning when the coffee started brewing, but that was an illusion. The actual time was 6:15, meaning sunrise will be coming later, sunset will be doing the same thing … and the NBA playoffs are that much closer. Oh, and the Lakers are going to be in them. This much we can say with quite a degree of
The lower half of the Eastern Conference standings — meaning those in the playoff picture — is more tightly packed than the downtown local train at rush hour. And we are going to spend the next 5 weeks watching teams jockey for playoff position at both the top of the seedings bracket and the bottom. [Read more…]