The relationship between Shaquille O’Neal and Dwight Howard runs hot and cold, and to even describe it as lukewarm would be a bit of a stretch. Remember, part of the reason Howard wanted to be traded to the Nets over the Lakers was because he didn’t want to follow in Shaq’s footprints, and he doesn’t want to play second fiddle to anyone, even if it is Kobe Bryant. But in the months since the trade deadline passed, Howard now feels the Lakers
LOS ANGELES — I didn’t set out to major in Kobe Bryant, having long since graduated when he showed up here at 17. Things just led that way. I covered his father, Joe, whom he called Jellybean, as a 76ers rookie in the 1970s. I knew the family from Baker League games, where I met Joe’s gregarious father, Big Joe. After not having seen Joe for decades, I ran into him at the 1995 Adidas camp at Fairleigh Dickinson where his
Dwight Howard is truly having a season to forget. Most seem to be calling it a “Dwightmare”, fittingly. Sadly, most of it is due to off-court issues. Throughout his career, he was a drama-free, fun and charismatic superstar adored by most around him. Since the end of last season, however, he has become one of the more unlikable players in the NBA. He has become a walking daytime soap opera due to his much-documented indecision of where he would like to play. During the process, he
Really? Two Bernucca Lists in a row without a correct answer? C’mon, Sheridan Hoops readers, you’re better than that. Yes, Edition 16 was a tough one, and sooner or later, we were going to produce one of these lists that stumped our readership. And reader Andrew was very close on Edition 17, which ran last week. However, we have to question his sense of NBA history. The correct answer was “Players who have averaged 25 points and 13 rebounds in the same season.” We
When we first came up with the idea of the Bernucca List – or, rather, stole it from the late, great Spy magazine – we thought it would be a fun and challenging exercise for NBA fans visiting Sheridan Hoops. We believed each weekly list would carry at least a portion of the day for our site. We expected our readers to eventually come up with the right answer. However, we did not expect them to offer the right answer within
MIAMI – OK, he did it again. LeBron James, the talented and tormented Miami Heat forward, declined to take a late-game shot Friday at Utah. He saw a double-team coming and passed to forward Udonis Haslem, who missed a jumper. The Heat lost, 99-98. You’d be tempted to think it was the All-Star game all over again. It wasn’t. This wasn’t some made-for-TV pickup game. It was a regular-season game. It mattered. Now, the LeBron debate can continue. “At the end of the
In a major upset, global sensation Jeremy Lin was added to the player pool for the Rising Stars Challenge at All-Star Weekend. Lin, the second-year point guard of the New York Knicks, was a late addition to the pool, as was Miami Heat rookie guard Norris Cole. TNT analysts Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal served as GMs and chose from a pool of 10 sophomores and 10 rookies. Here are there picks (O’Neal had the first pick): TEAM SHAQ Blake Griffin Greg Monroe Markieff Morris Ricky Rubio Jeremy Lin Kemba
Last week’s winner was reader Doug, who was first to correctly answer that The Bernucca List was active coaches who have lost their only trips to the NBA Finals. The list was actually one coach longer at the start of the season, but Paul Westphal (1993 with Phoenix) was fired by Sacramento. This week’s edition is below. See if you can correctly identify the list with all of its parameters. First correct answer gets a mention in next week’s list.