Of Tuesday’s eight NBA games, two stand out in terms of high score potential, though only one of those also features low salaries. Russell Westbrook $10700 and Kevin Durant $9800 should carve up the Timberwolves, who have lost six in a row. [Read more…]
It’s a busy Saturday in the NBA, with two matinees and nine evening games. [Read more…]
In an NBA season marked by unprecedented dominance, has the bar measuring success been raised too high? Are we too quick to criticize teams that are not playing at the level of the Golden State Warriors? Have we forgotten where the Cleveland Cavaliers were a year ago? Sure seems that way sometimes, and never more so than it has since Christmas as the Cavaliers followed up their NBA Finals rematch with a ghastly loss to the reeling Portland Trail Blazers, then struggled to
An 11-game Monday slate is capped by the 28-1 Warriors hosting Sacramento. Stephen Curry $10700, Draymond Green $9300, Klay Thompson $7300 and Andrew Bogut $4200 are extremely well rested — just two games in nine days — while the Kings somehow lost at home last night to the short-handed Blazers. [Read more…]
If you are like many Americans – middle-class, middle-aged males not unlike myself – and watched your first NBA games this season on Christmas, then you probably think the Chicago Bulls are just fine. If you have watched at any other time this season, then you know otherwise. On Christmas, the Bulls played perhaps their best game of the season. They went into Loud City without injured emotional leader Joakim Noah and never trailed against the Thunder, leaving with a convincing 105-96
For most players, posting 25 points and 9 rebounds would qualify as a good night. Then again, LeBron James isn’t most players. As a future Hall of Famer who remains the most talented basketball player on the planet, his standard is far higher. [Read more…]
Pre-Christmas week brought a foreshadowing of what was coming, as an e-mail from columnist and NBA Encylopedia author Jan Hubbard (who lives in Dallas) included a notation that he was in Los Angeles, where the locals are still infatuated with Kobe Bryant to an extreme degree — or so it seemed to an outsider and objective observer, as Hubbard was. Christmas then brought the news that Bryant is running away with the lead in All-Star balloting, which is always a popularity
An extremely busy Saturday at shopping malls is also action-packed in the NBA, with 13 games. Two are matinees, playable only in 4:00 EST Early and All-Day contests at DraftKings. [Read more…]