The Celtics allowed 72 points to the Thunder in the first half, the most since allowing 75 to the Bucks in 2005. Kendrick Perkins picked up his 11th technical foul of the season, leaving him two away from suspension. Restricted free agent Wilson Chandler was in Toronto with his agent to “explore opportunities” with team management. The Pacers have won their past four games against the Bobcats by a combined 74 points. The Nets had their 17th different starting lineup this season, as Kris
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
Two of the best dunks in recent memory happened this week when Blake Griffin ‘Mozgov’d’ Kendrick Perkins and LeBron James jumped over John Lucas III of the Bulls to flush an alley-oop. The boss sent out a tweet asking his followers to submit their best dunks of all-time, and responses came flooding in. So here is a list of our 10 favorites. Plus, a few extras from the Twitter respondees. After watching, how do you think Blake’s and ‘Bron’s stack up? Comments are
By Chris Sheridan And the first pertinent sub-question on that topic: Who will the big guys be? As in big and tall. Dwight Howard is the first name on that list, because like most of the 2008 Redeem Team, he has earned the right to defend the gold medal he won in Beijing. Ditto Chris Bosh. The same goes for Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant, and maybe to a slightly lesser degree to Chris Paul and Deron Williams. You can also set aside
By Chris Bernucca “There’s a lot of woofing going on in the league. Guys do a lot of talking. What I would like to see, since television seems to be promoting everything, is an off-season boxing tournament for NBA players. Let them put on 16-ounce gloves and fight three two-minute rounds. One thing it would do … it would stop a lot of the woofing going on.” – “Pistol” Pete Maravich, in a 1977 Sports Illustrated article My son plays AAU basketball. He’s not