When Utah Jazz point guard Mo Williams was lost due to a severely sprained thumb back in Dec. 22, 2012, it looked as if the team would struggle to make the playoffs this season without a reliable backup. Interestingly, Utah has stepped up to the challenge without its starting point guard, going 14-8 since Williams’ injury. In fact – and not to say that the Jazz are better off without him – the team has gone 17-9 in games where Williams has
When the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the lowly Toronto Raptors on Sunday afternoon, there was one positive to take from the deflating defeat: Pau Gasol had his highest scoring game of the season with 25 points – one of his best performances under Mike D’Antoni. The offensive breakout, however, didn’t win over the troubled coach. In fact, it prompted him to announce the demotion of Gasol to the bench on Monday, in favor of Earl Clark. The news didn’t go over so
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…]
You may have heard the news already, if not David Stern has announced that he will retire February 1, 2014. At the appointed time, he will step aside and leave the NBA in the hands of Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver. During a press conference following the league’s Board of Governors meeting, Stern said: “It’s been a great run. The league is in, I think, terrific condition…I’d like to think I did an adequate job. But one of the things I did best
He may sometimes get called out for it, but Bill Simmons is never one to shy away from sharing his opinions about NBA players, and he was at it again with this particular tweet about the status of Lamar Odom after observing the power forward from afar:
