Carmelo Anthony (photo. Mannion)
They looked good for a half, but the Mavs eventually folded under Denver’s hailstorm of buckets and dropped another game to a playoff-contending team. (They’re 0-9 against above-.500 squads since the Jason Kidd deal.) You don’t want to harp on Dirk’s absence, especially when Josh Howard scored 30 and the Kidd-Terry-Stackhouse backcourt […]

Richard Jefferson (photo. Zandy Mangold)
No one really thought the Nets were gonna be the ones to snap the Rockets’ win streak, but the potential was at least there for a competitive game, what with Jersey’s size advantage up front and the dual threat of Vince and Richard Jefferson. Didn’t happen. T-Mac put up an easy […]

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 […]

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 […]

Trevor Ariza (Photo. Lynette Estair)
Popular sentiment following the NBA’s latest batch of Christmas Day games is that the Lakers are now a legit contender. Are they really? For now, we’d have to say so. The Lakers have the best player on the planet in Kobe. They have arguably the best coach in the game in […]

T.J. Ford (Photo. Eriberto Oriol)
Celtics/Raptors looked like an easy Boston win for three quarters, but turned entertaining down the stretch mostly due to T.J. Ford KILLING the C’s backcourt. Ford’s driving layup tied it up with 27 seconds left, and on the next possession, Paul Pierce missed a jumper before the buzzer. (The Celtics didn’t […]

Photo. Marc Morrison
Oubliette — “A form of dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. To exit an oubliette was nearly impossible without outside help. The word comes from the French oublier, ‘to forget,’ as it was used for those prisoners the captors wished to forget. Most prisoners were left to […]

The more we look at the Ricky Davis/Antoine Walker trade, we have to wonder: What did Ricky do so wrong to make Minnesota want to dump him for ‘Toine — who might get bought out and never even play for them — and 1.5 big men? (The 0.5 is for the half season Wayne Simien […]

Ricky Davis (Photo. Gary Land)
You think Ricky Davis isn’t gonna take a ton of shots this year? Between KG being gone, a team full of young T’wolves who will naturally defer to a veteran, the high likelihood that Minnesota will be trying to shoot their way back into a lot of games, and the fact […]

Shawn Marion won’t be going anywhere if the rest of the Suns can help it. Doing the anti-Deron Williams, Steve Nash told the East Valley Tribune, “We have a great team, we’re very close to winning a championship and we want everyone on board. All his teammates love him.” The paper said Nash, several other […]

The fallout of the KG trade is already starting to bite Minnesota. Juwan Howard, who hasn’t even played a game yet for the Wolves, is reportedly asking to be traded already. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, when Howard came to the team in the trade for Mike James, he was excited to play with Garnett, […]

Ricky’s gonna get his. Now who’s with him?
We were watching NBA TV yesterday when all of a sudden they broke into a “special presentation” and went out to a press conference set-up in Minnesota. Since we hadn’t heard any T’wolves-related news at that point, we had no idea what was about to happen — at […]

Guess who scored 50?
Funny how Kobe Bryant scoring 50 points in a game seems almost routine now — he dropped 50 again on the Sonics last night, his 10th Curtis Jackson of the season — but then you look it up and see that Wilt Chamberlain did it 45 times in ‘61-62, then another 30 […]