Courtesy NBA.com and Getty Images One week from today I’ll be filing these rankings from Houston, and next Sunday night we’ll see if LeBron takes the biggest shot of the game … or instead chooses to inbound it. “You’re inbounding?” Kobe Bryant asked LeBron incredulously as the East had the ball for the final shot and the win in last year’s game in Orlando … back when The Haters ruled the LeBron James universe and a majority of
Luke Ridnour is being shopped by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and a league source told SheridanHoops.com “there is a good chance” the 10th-year point guard will be dealt before the Feb. 21 trade deadline. [Read more…]
The NBA trade deadline journalism racket is a tricky minefield to navigate. The business is driven by rumors, many of which are founded in truth, others of which are utterly fictitious. Distinguishing between the two differentiates the good basketball Web sites from the bad sites. But figuring out who is available is not rocket science if you speak to the right people, and I speak to a lot of plugged-in people on a regular basis. Here is the latest they are telling me:
Trade rumors will be flying like bats at dusk over the next 16 days as the NBA trade deadline nears, and inevitably some of them are going to include Will Bynum of the Pistons. [Read more…]
Today’s art comes from a buddy in France. My question is: Do they serve the Royale with Cheese? Cuz I damn sure ain’t putting no bleu cheese on no burger, you hear me? [Read more…]
Can I call it the Tayshaun Prince trade? Nobody in Memphis is calling it by that name … but they will. [Read more…]
Memo to Memphis: Yes, it is devastating that you broke up your “Core Four.” Your mass misery gave us a Tweet of the Day from Mike Conley and Tony Allen. But guess what? You won the trade. You just got Tayshaun Prince, who might be the missing ingredient to make y’all a legit championship contender. You also get Ed Davis, who basically replaces tax dump victim Marreese Speights, who was valuable from a depth standpoint. [Read more…]
Put a fork in them — both of them. The Lakers and Celtics, that is. They’re done. [Read more…]