Let’s check in on last year’s Finals participants, shall we? There was quite a game in Dallas, where the Mavericks were trying to extend their winning streak and the Clippers were trying to complete a spiffy 5-1 road trip. The night began and ended with Caron Butler. Butler spent last season with the Mavericks. He began as their starting small forward and helped Dallas to a 24-8 start before suffering a torn patellar tendon that cost him the rest of the season.
For a six-game board, there are some pretty good games on League Pass on Monday night. The Miami Heat go to Milwaukee to try to solve the Bucks, who have beaten them twice this season. The top two rebounders square off with Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic host Kevin Love and the Minnesota Timberwolves. And there is the car-crash quality of the Philadelphia 76ers visiting the Charlotte Bobcats, who have lost 14 straight games. But the best game should be Blake
Five games in seven nights. Five wins. 26.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 8.0 assists, and 2 steals per game. Most points for any player in his first four starts since the ABA/NBA merger, surpassing Allen Iverson. Thus ended one of the most improbably historical weeks the NBA has ever witnessed. And to cap it, Jeremy Lin, for the win. In a much anticipated matchup between two of the most up-and-coming point guards in the league, Lin ended his Cinderella week by holding off Ricky
On Friday afternoon, I got an email from the NBA Store shamelessly plugging a Jeremy Lin jersey. Jeremy Lin certainly has made the most of his opportunity, and you can’t blame the NBA for trying to make the most of Jeremy Lin. But the cynic in me viewed the shameless monetization of a week-long fad as some sort of hex that surely would knock the Knicks neophyte off his cloud and bring him hurtling back to reality. Wrong again. Lin had his best
The Rookie-Sophomore Challenge is no more. The annual wide-open dunkfest pitting first-year players against second-year players will have a different format this year in Orlando, the NBA announced Tuesday. And under the new format, you might see Ricky Rubio throwing lobs to Blake Griffin. The Friday night affair will now be called the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge, and each team will have rookies and sophomores. Each team also will have GMs who will pick from a pool of players selected by NBA assistant
Several of the dinosaur staffers here at SheridanHoops remember when Sunday mornings used to be spent reading NBA columns. Some of us are old enough to recall reading them in newspapers – Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe, David Moore in the Dallas Morning News, Dave D’Alessandro in the Newark Star-Ledger and – of course – Mark Heisler in the Los Angeles Times. Nowadays, it’s hard to find a Sunday NBA column. Newspapers have gone hyperlocal, with more copy on high schools
csprtContainer(); With the NBA All-Star starters set, who will be snubbed for a reserve spot? Could President Obama check out Blake Griffin? CineSport’s Brian Clark & SheridanHoops.com’s Chris Sheridan discuss.
The highlight of the night once again involved Blake Griffin. But it was not the type of Griffin highlight you are accustomed to seeing. As friend and former colleague Beth Harris of the Associated Press described in four perfectly succinct words, Blake Griffin got Mozgov’d. Or to put it in words that would never be seen on the AP wire, Timofey Mozgov knocked Blake Griffin on his ass. It was one heck of a hard foul, and it came during one heck of a