Buy Low: Mo Williams is emotional. We know this from his heartbroken comments after LeBron James left Cleveland. Now that he’s in Los Angeles playing with the Clippers (read: with Blake Griffin), the skies look a lot sunnier for Williams, who looks primed for a mini-comeback during the remainder of the season. We’ve seen how revitalizing playing with Griffin was for Baron Davis – expect the same magic to happen for Williams. Read More »

Last March, Bruce Pearl was on top of the coaching world. He had taken his Tennessee Volunteers within one point of the Final Four as a six-seed which was the culmination of one of the most impressive coaching jobs in recent memory.

Pearl’s 2009-10 team was incredibly talented, and expected to contend for the SEC title with seniors Tyler Smith and Wayne Chism leading the way. Things were going along just fine for the 14th-ranked Vols until everything changed on Jan. 1. Read More »

Few things in life are as certain as death, taxes and the L.A. Clippers’ misfortunes. So excuse me when I say with the most sincerity that a kid from Edmond, Oklahoma, has effectively taken that last tidbit of certainty, cupped its face to his nether regions and slam dunked all over it. I know this, because Blake Griffin showed me so. Read More »

Part of this certainly has to do with losing to a patchwork, first-time-playing-together, no-superstar Nuggets team on national TV last night, but there was clearly something larger at play. There were reports all day yesterday that the Celtics‘ vets were “livid” over the monster Kendrick Perkins trade, and now we have some visual evidence of the distress from the Celtics’ locker room after last night’s game in Denver.

Here are two videos we came across on CelticsLife.com, one of Paul Pierce and one of KG, that show two guys who aren’t necessarily “livid,” but upset, and most of all, confused by the trade. I mean, Pierce looks like he’s about to cry:

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Thanks to the homie Trey Kerby of The Basketball Jones, watch Chris Bosh take a dive that would make Vlade Divac proud. I mean, when you shoot 1-for-18 from the floor for the game, you gotta do whatever it takes to try and help your team win.

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The minutes leading up to the 3:00pm EST trade deadline Thursday didn’t disappoint. There was a flurry of last-minute swaps around the NBA, a league whose GMs appear to have caught some kind of bloodlust for transactions akin to the fever teenage girls have for Bieber. This means that there’s a whole lot to digest today. Let’s wade through the aftermath and assess the effects of the last-minute trading frenzy for fantasy basketball owners. Read More »

It seems like interior defense is picking up in the second half of the season. In 48 games with the Knicks this season, Danilo Gallinari registered 18 blocks. Last night in his Nuggets debut he had three. Check out this grimy one at the rim on Glen “Big Baby” Davis.

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Beast of the Night: LeBron James showed Chicago the talents he took elsewhere by posting 29 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two steals and one block. He shot 57 percent (12-21) from the field, 83 percent (5-6) from the free-throw line and had two turnovers. Despite what the real-life MVP race (and Chris Bosh) says, James was the best fantasy player for at least one night. Read More »

Not a bad way to start off the morning…

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On the night after another wild NBA trade deadline — before which almost 50 players were traded — Chicago looked like the big winner for not doing a damn thing. Trailing Miami by 11 in the third quarter, the Bulls may have been starting to regret not pulling off a deal for somebody like J.R. Smith or O.J. Mayo. Instead, Derrick Rose brought them storming back and the Bulls handed the Heat another loss to an elite team … Chicago was up three with 1:30 to go in the fourth as Rose (26 points) and LeBron James (29 points, 10 rebounds) matched up head-to-head. Read More »