Our man Moke Hamilton, who covers the Knicks and ranks free agents for this site, wrote a strong piece nearly two weeks making the argument that J.R. Smith should be given serious consideration for the Sixth Man Award. Smith would prefer to start, but he has kept his mouth shut and gone about his business without complaining — even while the likes of James White were getting inserted and then yanked from the starting five. [Read more…]
Well, we don’t have the Heat to gush over anymore. The streak was fun while it lasted, but it became so all-encompassing that many of y’all may have lost sight of the broader landscape across the NBA. [Read more…]
Generally, NBA teams do not use high picks to draft defensive-minded players unless those players are 7 feet tall. Everybody seems willing to take a major risk to get the next Dikembe Mutombo, but few want to gamble that they might find the next Tony Allen. Which brings us to Victor Oladipo of Indiana, whose draft stick is rising according to our own Joe Kotoch because of his defensive versatility and Indiana’s success. And at the next level, he may be a
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
The Los Angeles Clippers are 3-4 in their last seven games and don’t look as sharp as the season’s end quickly approaches. CineSport’s Noah Coslov and SheridanHoops.com’s Mark Heisler discuss. (function() { var csprtjs = document.createElement('script'); csprtjs.type = 'text/javascript'; csprtjs.async = true; csprtjs.src = 'http://edgecdn.cinesport.com/container.js'; var first_s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; first_s.parentNode.insertBefore(csprtjs, first_s); })();
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…]
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
I have been asked this several times this season, and I have been wrong each time. But I now believe it is time to take the Los Angeles Lakers seriously. Why else would I elevate them nine spots to eighth in my latest NBA Power Rankings? [Read more…]