This is the time of year where everyone and their mothers offer up a series of fearless prognostications about the upcoming NBA season. Here’s what I can tell you about my skills at predicting the future. If I was really any good at it, I wouldn’t be wasting it on the NBA season. And neither would anyone else. I am not reading tea leaves, interpreting tarot cards, gazing into crystal balls, holding seances, poring over analytics or buying classified information on the
In today’s news, the Pacers finally signed Paul George to a much-anticipated contract extension. Meanwhile, Raymond Felton and the Trail Blazers continued their very public media feud. [Read more…]
When are folks going to stop picking on Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti and Clay Bennett for trading James Harden? Not any time soon around here. Exhibit A is this outstanding column by Chris Bernucca, and Exhibit B will be seen nearly every week in my Power Rankings. Perhaps sometime in the next 5-10 years, we’ll let it go. But to break up a championship-caliber team and end up with nothing but Jeremy Lamb in return is borderline nauseating. Let’s face it: If
When news hit that Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu pledged to cut as much as 10 inches of his hair for a noteworthy charity, Portland Trail Blazers forward Dorell Wright took notice. His son, Devin—as pictured in his tweet, seems to favor Polamalu (and his hair). [Read more…]
The quarterfinal round of EuroBasket ’13 began Wednesday. With only six available spaces for the 2014 World Cup, seven of the remaining eight teams are battling it out to make it to the Spain next year. [Read more…]
The hit NBA video game franchise from Take-Two Interactive’s 2K Sports is soon to hit the shelves. NBA 2K14 will be available for purchase for both current and next-gen Sony and Microsoft based consoles as well as PC on October 1, 2013. As usual, players are beginning to get curious about their NBA 2K player ratings. A few players have already had their ratings publicized, two of them have spoken out about theirs. [Read more…]
The 2012-13 season was not a kind one to the Portland Trail Blazers. Forget the NBA Rookie of the Year Award given unanimously for only the fourth time in history to Damian Lillard. Forget, too, the second straight All-Star nod for LaMarcus Aldridge. Also forget that Aldridge, Lillard, Nicolas Batum and Wesley Matthews comprised the top four-man lineup in the league. Portland finished the campaign on a franchise-worst 13-game losing streak and wasn’t competitive in a game for more than a month. This season is shaping
With transactions reduced from a torrent to a trickle, the NBA is now truly in its offseason. Yes, there’s still a few prominent names out there – Lamar Odom, Corey Maggette and Tyrus Thomas among them – but no one who is going to crash our list of the top 10 free agent signings. [Read more…]