Dirk came through; Nash didn’t
We said it a couple days ago in our NBA Hit List player ranking: “These next two games is where we’ll see what kind of leader (Steve) Nash is. Right now you can’t tell if this is his team or Shaq’s.” So what happened in last night’s Suns/Spurs game? Nash had […]

Kobe Bryant (photo. Chris Sembrot)
Kobe took another step toward locking up his first MVP, as the Lakers grabbed sole possession of first place in the West by blowing out the Spurs. Keeping that top spot is another thing: L.A. has a home date with Sacramento left on the schedule, while the Hornets have the Clippers […]

Deron Williams (photo. Monte Isom)
Of all the Chris Paul vs. Deron Williams head-to-heads we have seen and will see over the years, last night’s won’t exactly go down in history. The Jazz got the win — which has kind of been the norm in the series so far — clinching the Northwest Division and proving […]

Ray Allen (Photo. Jordan Brand)
There’s really no point in watching a Spurs game until the fourth quarter, is there? No matter how bad Tim Duncan and Co. might have played in the first 36 minutes, those last 12 is when they’ll hit that “Champions” switch and either win or fall just short. Yesterday in Boston […]

Photo. Mannion
How would the Lakers adjust to life without Andrew Bynum? Playing a Sonics team against which he usually drops plenteous buckets, Kobe Bryant decided to go into Tony Montana mode (“Who put this $*** together? Me, that’s who!”) and had his eyes locked onto the rim — on his first 10 touches he shot […]

Photo. Monte Isom
Players never want to admit it, but the Mavericks’ 20-piecing of the Warriors last night meant something to Dallas. Now they’re 2-0 against the team that took their Jell-O pudding cup at lunchtime last spring, and the Mavs reminded everyone that they’re gonna be around when the games start to really matter … […]

Photo. Mannion
Maybe the Cavs can contend for a ‘chip after all. If they play defense like they did in Dallas last night and get offensive contributions from a couple of guys other than LeBron ( Big Z and Larry Hughes stepped up), they can at least play with anyone, just like last year, and keep […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
Just like we expected, the Cavs looked like a real NBA team once LeBron stepped back onto the court last night. Coming off the bench against the Pacers (”One and done,” he called it afterwards. “I will not be coming off the bench anymore.”), ‘Bron put up 17 points and 5 assists in […]

Zach and Eddy’s nightmare… (Photo. Monte Isom)
Have you seen the new Rambo trailer? Sly Stallone is going ballistic throughout the whole thing, using ridiculously oversized weapons to take out the bad guys — there are times when he’s literally making it rain meat, and we don’t mean the kind you’d get at McDonald’s. At Madison […]

Photo. Monte Isom
The TNT studio crew called it correctly (if not ad nauseam) before tip: Mavs/Warriors was a statement game. For Dallas, and for Dirk Nowitzki especially, showing they weren’t intimidated/rattled/punked by the team that took ‘em out last year was the key. For Golden State, they just needed to get a win and avoid […]

Still waiting for Franchise…
(Photo. Gary Land)
Just one game on the NBA schedule yesterday, a back-and-forth contest between the Rockets and Mavs that had a little playoff atmosphere going. With no one outside of the Big Two putting in work for Houston and with Dallas’ home-court advantage, it was one of those games where T-Mac would’ve […]