Friends, U.S. Olympic teammates and NBA Players of the Week. LeBron James of the Miami Heat and Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers received the league’s weekly honor Monday after both led their teams to perfect records. [Read more…]
Finally using their best lineup, the Lakers played Steve Nash (12 PTS, 9 AST) for 41 minutes and won in overtime. Nash will be sore today after his first game in eight weeks, but should be ready to spend Christmas Day in Manhattan. [Read more…]
Thanks to our loyal readers for your amazing response to this week’s Sheridan Hoops Freeroll — 647 entries. Congratulations to “kemgolfer”, who won $100 cash for piling up 283.25 fantasy points. $60 for second went to “knuck 2” with 277.5, while “sports88guy” scored 270.5 to earn $30 for third. [Read more…]
When we started publishing The Bernucca List just over a year ago, the plan was to make it a fun way to engage the reader and challenge their basketball intelligence. We had no idea that it would become this competitive. After a brief absence, reader Brian Rivel has returned to provide the correct answer to last week’s list, which was “active players represented by agent Rob Pelinka.” It marked the third time this season Rivel has provided the correct answer. He answered two
There’s another free fantasy contest tonight, just for Sheridan Hoops readers, with $300 in cash prizes to the top 15 finishers. Pick an 8-man lineup within the $100,000 salary cap and the best team wins a hundred bucks, no strings attached. [Read more…]
Join our Freeroll tomorrow, pick the 8-man team you think will perform best in Friday’s games and you could win a hundred bucks in American currency. There’s no catch, it’s absolutely free. 15 people will share $300 in cash prizes — $100 to the winner. [Read more…]
Despite their glittering 16-6 record, the defending-champion Miami Heat seem to be anything but invincible. Indeed, even though they had only a modicum of trouble in beating Minnesota last night, their 103-92 victory did expose several meaningful flaws in Miami’s game plan. [Read more…]
MIAMI – You look at LeBron James’ statistics – 25.4 points per game and a career-best 8.6 rebounds — and you begin to wonder … Is it possible James, the Miami Heat’s superstar small forward, could be a 20-10 guy? Could James, a perimeter player, average 10 rebounds per game? For the NBA’s 29th-best rebounding team, no less? [Read more…]