Awwwwdaaaamn!
Here’s the problem with the Cavs: While their #1 is one of the five best players in the world and has playing better than anyone anywhere for the last month or so, 2-through-12 they’ve got a collection of talent that’s subpar at best. Hence the .500 record for most of this season, and hence the […]

Topic of Tuesday conversation
(Photo. Jonathan Mannion)
It’s like Christmas Eve around here, today being is the day before Opening Day. Pretty light schedule tomorrow: Spurs vs. Blazers, Lakers vs. Rockets, and Warriors vs. Jazz. The first two are on national TV, so if you don’t have League Pass, don’t worry. And not only is the Utah […]

Play whatever “danger is coming” music you prefer, because the news that dropped yesterday could be very bad for the NBA. Turns out the FBI has been investigating one of the League’s veteran refs for allegedly betting on games as part of a big-time gambling ring that might even involve the Mafia and making calls […]

There was a time when having T-Mac, Yao and Steve Francis on the same squad meant you had an instant contender on your hands (or at least a team hyped up as one). With Francis agreeing to a deal with the Rockets yesterday, though, now it’s just a decent guard who’s past his prime joining […]

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Who’s had a worse offseason than the Heat? First they lost Jason Kapono to Toronto. Then there were some very public swings-and-misses with Mo Williams and Grant Hill (not to mention Steve Blake). And the Heat didn’t even get a chance to make a run at Rashard Lewis, but it turns out there’s […]

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Three years ago, Steve Francis was giving the Kobe/Shaq Lakers triple-doubles in the playoffs and was probably one of the 15 or 20 best players in the entire League. Now he’s taking Chris Webber-ish “please just go away” buyouts and his free agency is less of a story than Darko being on […]

We’re sure some hater will get on LeBron for not taking the game-winning shot against Milwaukee last night, even if his decision to hit a cutting Anderson Varaejo with a dime at the rim gave the Cavs the win. We were surprised ‘Bron simply trusted AV enough to make the catch; the dude’s hands are […]

Dwight and the Magic ain’t done yet…
Maybe we were a little early sticking a fork in Orlando like we did in yesterday’s Smack. True, they’ve lost 7 of their last 8, but Dwight Howard (25 pts, 10 rebs) and crew were hanging in there with the Mavericks in Dallas yesterday; the game was tied with […]