You never know what unexpected scene a cameraman might capture simply by pointing at certain people or a crowd at any given moment during a game. On Wednesday night, an innocent looking young boy was shown on camera as he reached for a candy bar from an Atlanta Hawks cheerleader. The camera kept rolling on the scene, and the boy was caught doing something absolutely hilarious: he noticed a different kind of candy in front of him. All three of them.
Were there enough highlights from the first week of the NBA season for you? James Harden’s surreal first two games. The Knicks’ phenomenal ball movement. LeBron James’ assist to Ray Allen for a game-winning four-point play over Denver (Pat Riley had to be grinning away). Along with the other top stories of the week, the Dwight-less and rebuilding Orlando Magic skated through their first two games of the 2012-13 season against the Nuggets and Suns, respectively, in large part to the play of
ATLANTA — James Harden is warming up to this whole ‘foundational player’ thing. The Rockets’ new $80 million man spoiled Atlanta’s home opener by dropping a career-high 45 points on the Hawks in Houston’s 109-102 win on Friday night. Not a bad encore to his 37-point Rocket debut on Halloween. Working those mammoth stat lines into wins should be even more encouraging to Kevin McHale, Daryl Morey and everyone else (outside of Oklahoma City) who had a hand in making Harden so
(This is another in a series of 30 guest columns that will run in October, when optimism reigns supreme across the NBA. The theme will be “Five Reasons to Feel Positive About … ” We encourage you to follow the authors on Twitter and visit their sites. – CS) The Atlanta Hawks spent the last seven years developing a contender in the Eastern Conference and the last five cultivating a core of Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Al Horford and Marvin Williams. Dubbed
Remember the 1990s, back when it was trendy to break backboards? Darryl Dawkins broke them almost with regularity, then the league introduced breakaway rims. Shaquille O’Neal brought down entire basketball goals. Eventually, the NBA was prompted into action, implementing rules to prevent such breaks. Well, breaks are back, as we can see in this tweet from Atlanta Hawks reserve Anthony Tolliver. Earlier today, Tolliver’s teammate Ivan Johnson shattered a backboard at Butler’s practice facility in Indiana as the Hawks prepared for Tuesday night’s
Southeast Division Preview Part I This is the last in our series of Division Previews. Kent weighed in on the Atlantic and Southwest, Bruce took the Pacific and Central and I looked at the Northwest earlier this week. When we discussed this idea and sought volunteers for each division, everyone wanted to do the Southeast. I can’t speak for Kent or Bruce, but I wanted to review this division because I just don’t understand what these teams are doing and thought some closer analysis would shed some light. This includes the NBA
UNDER CONTRACT: F Josh Smith, F-C Al Horford, G Devin Harris, C Zaza Pachulia, G Jeff Teague, G Lou Williams, F Kyle Korver, C Johan Petro, G Anthony Morrow, G DeShawn Stevenson, F Damion James, F Ivan Johnson, F Anthony Tolliver DRAFT PICKS: G John Jenkins, F Mike Scott FREE AGENTS: C Erick Dampier, G Tracy McGrady, F Jordan Williams MOVES:New GM Danny Ferry didn’t waste time showing he is a can-do man, moving the contracts of both Joe Johnson (4 years, $90 million
