Who’s bad? (Photo. G. Land)
This time one year ago, Heat/Wolves at least would have been worth watching for the superstar factor: Shaq, D-Wade, Garnett. This year it was basically a battle for Worst Team in the League, and Miami lost (or won, depending on how you look at it). Rock bottom came with about two […]

First Kobe, now Rasheed. Word out of Detroit is that Rasheed Wallace has dropped 25 pounds since the end of the season — so much that Joe Dumars has been calling him “Slim Jim.” Thinking back, ‘Sheed did seem kinda slow last year, but we figured it was just age/ankle problems. And not saying Wallace […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
“Are you f***ing serious?!?”
That was the general reaction over here when we heard the news out of Portland that Greg Oden will most likely miss the entire ‘07-08 season after having microfracture surgery on his right knee — and it was the same reaction we got from everyone who called wanting to know […]

We start off Smack today on a tragic note. Over the holiday weekend, the search for Jameer Nelson’s father, Floyd “Pete” Nelson, ended when the 57-year-old’s body was pulled from the Delaware River. Mr. Nelson had gone missing last week, when co-workers at the tugboat company where he worked last saw him walking on a […]

Enough to get the Lakers past Round 1?
And you thought the Kevin Garnett trade was the last big move of the offseason? Don’t bank on it yet. We hadn’t heard anything from or about Jermaine O’Neal since a few J.O.-to-Jersey trade rumors died down around Draft time, but yesterday Jermaine was back in the headlines. […]

Knowing full-well that teams who blow a chance to close a series in Game 6 almost always lose that ensuing Game 7 (we’re looking at you, Houston), the Warriors had to win last night. They did just that, and it was much easier than we ever would have predicted. It was a thorough, out-and-out piecing […]