Much like Monday, media day was full of players and teams that felt great about their chances of achieving great things for the upcoming season. Even the players that we’ve come to expect less from have shown up to training camp with notably improved figures in hopes to revive their careers. See who had the most impressive summer and what interesting things were said on Tuesday by a number of players such as Paul George, Rajon Rondo, Luis Scola and
The Lakers are back? If they made it to another Media Day, they made it back from the summer, anyway. Don’t laugh. Some seasons around here, that was an issue, like 2007-08, when Kobe Bryant, who had spent the summer demanding a trade, swore privately he wouldn’t report and didn’t say anything publicly until showing up that morning. So, as far as actual news from Monday goes, all these Lakers showed up! Of course, in today’s talk-show world, it’s important to foretell outcomes that
All-Star Andrew Bynum, the centerpiece in the Philadelphia 76ers’ end of the Dwight Howard trade, will not take the court for three weeks as a precaution for his surgically repaired right knee. Last month, Bynum went to Germany to undergo a non-invasive strengthening procedure on his right knee known as Orthokine/Regenokine. The procedure – not performed in the United States – takes a person’s blood and spins it until it is rich in healing platelets. The blood is then re-injected into
// I am not alone in calling the L.A. Lakers the Most Improved Team in the NBA, and I have gone so far as to say I believe they can win 70 games. (Thanks to all of you who have voted in our polls for how many games the Lakers and Heat will win.) But what about the other end of the spectrum? My pick is the Houston Rockets as the team Most Likely to Resemble the Charlotte Bobcats. That’s what happens
Here are this morning’s top NBA news stories. “Gilbert Arenas considering China,” by Marc Stein of ESPN.com. “Celtics sign Milicic,” from NBA.com. “ESPN sets sights on ex-Knicks GM Isaiah for TV role,” by Phil Mushnick of The New York Post. “Warriors’ GM dishes on team’s centers,” from the San Francisco Chronicle. “Lakers sign Ronnie Aguilar,” from NBA.com. “Step by step, Wolves’ Rubio resumes basketball career,” by Jerry Zgoda of Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Nene’s status in doubt for start of Wizards training camp,” by Gene Wang of the Washington Post. “League’s answer to floppers might run foul
The Shell Answer Man is a column theme that was inspired by my 8th grade journalism teacher Bill Ehrlich, who taught me as much about basketball as he did about journalism. The background story is linked right here. Essentially, these are questions I’ve either been asked on Twitter, on the radio, in person, or questions I’ve asked of myself. So let’s get right to it: What can we expect from the Chicago Bulls this season? On the surface it appears as though the Bulls
In case you missed it, Metta World Peace said the Los Angeles Lakers are going to try to go 73-9 to better the NBA-record of 72-10 by the Chicago Bulls in 1997-98. “We definitely want to beat the Bulls record and go 73-9, that’s definitely something that I want to do. Whoever is out there at the beginning of the season then we gotta get it. It’s as simple as that. We just have to go get it,” World Peace said,
The chatter about the Los Angeles Lakers have been non-stop for much of the summer, thanks to their huge offseason acquisitions of Steve Nash and Dwight Howard. Doc Rivers and Kendrick Perkins aren’t so high on focusing on the Lakers like everyone else though, and are looking forward to another possible meeting with the Miami Heat instead. See what they had to say about the Lakers and the Heat, what lesson Dwight Howard learned from his debacles as a Magic,