CP3
Like the older fellas at a pickup game stepping back onto the floor after a prolonged rest, the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t get loose quickly enough. After being outscored 29-17 in the third quarter of game one, the Spurs looked like they could have used a couple extra warm-up laps coming out of the locker […]

LeBron (photo. Mannion)
Before Game 6 of the Cavs/Wizards series got out of hand, there was a play in the second half where Delonte West was leading a 3-on-2 break with Wally Szczerbiak and LeBron filling the lanes. Seeing the potential for what could happen, both Washington defenders focused their attention on LeBron, surrendering a wide […]

Paul Pierce
Even though the Celtics’ game seven dismemberment ranks right up there in the pantheon of the most lopsided end-of-series blowouts, Boston still hasn’t explicitly answered the most important question for their success moving into round two: Who is going to step up and take a game into his own hands?
In all fairness, […]

As early and mid-season favorites like Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, Brandon Roy and LeBron James eventually fell off the MVP radar (for the most part), the ‘07-08 race became a two-man discussion: Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul.
Here are the numbers:
* Bryant — 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 1.8 steals per game. Second in the […]

Starting tomorrow and continuing through the next 11 weeks, the NBA is kicking off its first-ever “NBA Nation” tour, which is pretty much an eight-city traveling circus of basketball stuff for fans to get into. The first stop is Denver, followed by Atlanta, L.A., San Francisco, D.C., New York, Philly and Dallas. Along the way, […]

Will Iguodala get the same payday as J-Smoove?
While other marquis guys in their contract year have seized their time on the national stage of the playoffs to make a case for their future paychecks, Andre Iguodala hasn’t even come close to his regular production. His numbers during this six-game series are significantly down from his […]

After Caron Butler took over (again) and basically won last night’s Cavs/Wizards game in Cleveland all by himself, his Wizards teammates waited for Butler in the locker room chanting “TOUGH JUICE !” over and over again, until their hero to get back to the locker room.
Somewhere, we can picture Gil talking himself into re-building the […]

Joe Johnson
It’s not like Joe Johnson was guarding Kevin Garnett. After Joe Jeezy picked up his second foul steamrolling through Leon Powe less than eight minutes into the game, Mike Woodson put a seatbelt on him on the bench. Johnson warmed pine for more than nine minutes, and by the time that he came back […]

Who’s getting the calls?
It’s been established that the Spurs aren’t the darlings of anyone in the NBA’s high offices. They don’t make for good TV ratings. Most fans you ask think their style is boring. Most can’t stand Manu Ginobili’s flopping, Tim Duncan’s acting, and Tony Parker’s … whatever it is people just don’t like […]

Word just came down a few minutes ago that Avery Johnson has been fired as the Mavericks head coach.
Knee-jerk reaction by Mark Cuban? Looks like it. How often do you see a coach fired after a 51-win season and losing a playoff series in which they didn’t have home court advantage? How often do you […]

T-Mac on Dime #27
The Rockets seem to have reclaimed the spirit of their 22-0 run. They’re getting contributions from absolutely everybody - the Houston bench outscored the Jazz’s 18-0 in the first half, and rattled off the first nine points of the second half to give the starters a comfy-womfy 14-point lead. This is the […]

All due respect to what Steve Nash has been for the Suns in the past, but last night wasn’t exactly his best work. Watching Nash commit multiple turnovers and brick shots down the stretch, some longtime Phoenix fans might have even been pining for the good ol’ days of this man: Kevin Johnson.

Josh Smith
The CEO of the S-W-A-T Josh Smith has made himself more money in his last two games than he has at any point in his life. He reintroduced himself to America in game three of this series as more than the Slam Dunk champion everyone remembers.
In fact, he looked like a left-handed LeBron […]

‘Melo
Denver fought tooth and nail for that last playoff spot only to suffer the only sweep of the eight series around the League. But it wasn’t for a lack of effort last night. Early in the game, ‘Melo whizzed to the tin off of his post-spin move and missed a bunny off of front iron. […]