Josh Smith is one of those players whose praise is always qualified. You know how it goes: “He’s unbelievably talented, but…”, “He’s a matchup problem at both ends, but…”, “He’s a phenomenal finisher at the rim, but…”. The “but” is always the same: he’s not a good outside shooter, and he takes way too many outside shots. There’s one word that comes up more than any other these days when people talk about how the NBA’s best teams win: efficiency. Teams can win
The 2014-15 NBA regular season continued on Saturday, December 27 with a strong slate of 10 games. There was a career performance from a rising star, a duel between star players and one of the most efficient performances in NBA history. Here’s how it all transpired. [Read more…]
Not many people expected the Cleveland Cavaliers to be sitting in fifth place in the Eastern Conference two months into the season. When you build a SuperTeam, 5th place is not where you set your sights … and Cavs fans are grousing about it. But when you have a new coach, two imported superstars who have to change their games, a franchise cornerstone (Kyrie Irving) who is not the franchise cornerstone anymore, there are going to be growing pains. And that
Friday was a night of surprises. Jared Dudley $3700 couldn’t miss (24 points on 10-10 shooting) as the Bucks destroyed a bunch of impostors wearing Hawks uniforms. Both LaMarcus Aldridge (illness) and Chris Kaman (family) didn’t play, so Joel Freeland pulled down a career-high 17 rebounds. [Read more…]
History was made on Friday, December 26. The NBA returned from its Christmas special with a normal slate of 11 games featuring 22 teams. An active legend moved up the all-time scoring list, a contemporary star battled a future Hall of Famer, a number of MVP candidates went off, a rising star set a franchise record and an unheralded player made history. Here’s how it all transpired. [Read more…]
If you were using twitter on Christmas, you might have noticed the word “Temecula” trending everywhere. Hell, it’s still trending. Basically, well, you can read about what happened here. To make a long story short, two men (as you can see in the photoshopped work of a twitter user) on twitter got into an argument about Kobe Bryant and some other basketball-related things and decided it was time to take things to the next level by meeting up in Temecula (one of
After seeing this picture on Friday, I decided I had to use it. I know it goes off of Christmas again and I’m sorry, but I think you’ll all enjoy this when you check it out. The photo was posted by Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors to his Instagram and seemed like he was really excited about it. Honestly, how can you not be excited about this gift? [Read more…]
LeBron James pulled his jersey up over his mouth as he spoke to the players on the Miami Heat bench late in the fourth quarter of Cleveland’s Christmas day dud on Biscayne Bay, keeping the lip-readers out of the conversation. He id the same thing after the game ended when he spoke with Dwyane Wade, but his efforts at stealth could not elude the ESPN microphones. One snippet that was audible to the world was James saying he was making “like