Photo. Marc Morrison
Two-thirds of Thursday’s NBA schedule saw superstars trying to carry their teams: one got the job done and one didn’t. In Portland, the game was close until the last couple of minutes of the third quarter, when the Rockets went on an 11-0 run sparked by T-Mac and Bobby Jackson. Having a Sacramento […]

Ben Gordon (photo. Stephen Hill)
Is it really possible that this comic tragedy of season could culminate in a playoff berth for the Bulls? Things have been so crazy around this team that someone needs to write a book (if the beat writers are unavailable, we nominate Joakim Noah), and yet here it is six weeks […]

Photo. Chenoa Maxwell
If we know our readers, last night’s late League action got no burn on your TV. We’re going to guess that most of you were watching (and then mourning) the series finale of The Wire. Luckily the game of the day was the afternoon showdown between the Suns and the Spurs. Are these […]

M.D.E. (Photo. Chenoa Maxwell)
Suns/Celtics had just as much pre-game buzz and the same playoff atmosphere as Suns/Lakers did the other day, except this one wasn’t as run-and-gun. The Suns jumped on Boston early to build a big halftime lead, and although the C’s kept things more at their pace (neither team cracked 90) and made […]

Although Bulls vs. Blazers — real life, not the suuuuper slooow-mo video game — turned into a match game between Ben Gordon and Brandon Roy for most of crunch time, the eventual heroes/goats ended up being the unlikely Jarrett Jack and Joe Smith. In double-OT, Jack got the go-ahead bucket when he converted a three-point […]

Lamar’s chillin’ for L.A.’s next game.
(Photo. Tim Tadder)
No NBA games on the schedule yesterday, since everyone knows New Year’s Day belongs to college football. To kick off 2008, though, we’ve got a brand-new NBA Hit List power ranking for you. Not much has changed at the bottom — Al Jefferson and Zach Randolph’s squads are […]

Can’t win ‘em all (Photo. Gary Land)
The ‘72 Dolphins have to keep the champagne on ice for another week, but some team somewhere (maybe the ‘76 Indiana Hoosiers?) was poppin’ bottles last night after the Celtics lost in Orlando … Props to Dwight Howard for enduring the Hack-a-Beast tactics (10-for-20 at the stripe) to finish […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
Just when you thought the Cavs were better than mediocre, reality stepped in. More accurately, the Mavs stepped on Cleveland’s neck. LeBron didn’t even take a shot for most of the first quarter, yet Cleveland stayed in the game partly due to his passing. On one play ‘Bron had it on the block […]