PHILADELPHIA – No, that wasn’t a puff of white smoke emanating from the Philadelphia 76ers offices when their 118-day vigil finally came to an end Wednesday. It was more like they were waving the white flag, as if to say “Okay, we surrender. We’ll hire a coach, even though we all know the goal is to stink so bad this year we have the best chance to win the lottery, and a good coach might mess up the plan…’’ With that, “Nice
After well over a month of negotiations, Minnesota Timberwolves GM Flip Saunders has his man. Two days after setting a training camp deadline to get a deal done, Saunders announced that he had come to terms with Nikola Pekovic. [Read more…]
The people of Detroit, whose city recently declared bankruptcy, could use something to brighten their days a bit. And here it is. The Pistons on Wednesday unveiled a special uniform that will be worn for 10 games in the 2013-14 season. Intead of DETROIT or PISTONS across the chest, the uniforms will say MOTOR CITY. Greg Monroe is modeling them below. [Read more…]
Minnesota center Nikola Pekovic was a key cog in the Timberwolves ability to remain competitive in Kevin Love’s absence last year. He posted an average of 18 points and 10 rebounds per 36 minutes during the 2012-13 season. Going into the offseason, retaining his services was among the top priorities for GM Flip Saunders and the Wolves’ front office. A month later, Pekovic remains unsigned. Though both sides have yet to agree on the financial aspects of a new deal, Saunders remains hopefully
Damian Lillard, last season’s Rookie of the Year, led the NBA in minutes played. To put that into perspective, over the last five seasons, only two rookies – O.J. Mayo and Derrick Rose in 2008-2009 – even placed in the top 15 in minutes played. That comes out to three rookies among 75 players, a minuscule 4 percent. It is beyond a tremendous burden to put on a rookie, much less one who is handling the ball. That burden extended to the
Professional basketball may not be coming back to Seattle this year, but that doesn’t mean Kevin Durant can’t still pay his former city tribute. Durant participated in Jamal Crawford’s Summer Pro-Am in Seattle this weekend, and while his presence was bittersweet, he was given a warm welcome. [Read more…]
Damian Lillard quickly became a standout player in the NBA after his breakout rookie season in Portland last year, but the Blazers’ second-year guard is offering some advice to young players that may be the ‘shot happy’ type. Young players… That place so much value on “gettin buckets” , how valuable R U when you’re on a team that doesn’t need U to “get buckets” — Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) August 11, 2013 The reigning Rookie of the Year can back up his tweet
Miami Heat All-Star LeBron James has been known to be very generous and always talks about his days at Akron, especially at his high school St. Vincent-St. Mary. This time, the Akron-bred NBA superstar gave back to his high school football team, for which he was also an All-State wide receiver. James unveiled St. Vincent-St. Mary’s new football uniforms, which were created by Nike and LeBron himself. The new uniforms are called the new LeBron X Nike, exclusive uniforms to only