Although I believe there are a number of practices conducted by the NBA where it would be appropriate for David Stern to apologize, depriving Miami Heat fans of the thrill of seeing Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker is not one of them. You want to apologize for unacceptable behavior? Let’s start with that Miami public address announcer – the one who greets every basket like Mel Gibson greets torture in Braveheart. [Read more…]
Told ya yesterday’s question was tough. And you know what? We can make things even tougher if we start to feel grincy this Christmas season. Here is today’s brain-bender: What player holds the dubious record of being in a game the fewest minutes before fouling out? [Read more…]
It’s pretty hard to fault Gregg Popovich, unless you’re David Stern. Pop’s controversial decision to sit four starters in Miami on Thursday seemed to pay off two nights later, as Tony Parker (30 points, 6 assists) and Tim Duncan (27 PTS, 15 REB) were outstanding. [Read more…]
We have a special affinity here for those who stand up to authority, and this week that affinity translates into a new hombre at the top of our MVP rankings. [Read more…]
On Saturday, we try to help you sort through all of the injury news and rotation updates in the NBA and determine what the impact on your fantasy team is. Included this week was some analysis on the returns of Chauncey Billups, Derek Fisher and Mikael Pietrus. Today, we will preview Week 6 of the NBA schedule, highlight the fantasy friendly slates, some notable games and suggest some players who are owned in more than 50% of leagues to sit and
Gregg Popovich and the Spurs got their money’s worth. Now, it’s a question of whether the refs should be fined. Helped by an egregious non-call late in overtime, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night 99-95, rallying from a 15-point deficit in the second half behind some great play from their well-rested Big Three. [Read more…]
News broke early Saturday morning of a terrible tragedy that rocked the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. 25 year-old linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend at their home before taking his own life at the Chiefs practice facility in front of his head coach, Romeo Crennel, and general manager, Scott Pioli. [Read more…]
In order to make things easier for our readers we have decided to split the weekly planner into a weekly review to be published on Saturday and weekly preview on Sunday. For Saturdays, we are replacing our lessons from the Week That Was with an expanded review of roster changes including injuries and rotation updates in addition to our Depth Chart. Come back tomorrow and we will preview the Upcoming Schedule and make our picks of Sits and Starts. Today’s column includes