Damian Lillard And Who Else Benefits From Ebb And Flow Of MPG
Phenom point guard Damian Lillard led the league in minutes played last season. At 3,167, he played a whole game, 48 minutes, more than runner-up Kevin Durant. That’s a major workload but perhaps a little exaggerated as Luol Deng and Kobe Bryant, the two players who averaged more minutes per game than the ROY, sat […]
Little Big Man: Allen Iverson Retires A HOF Pound-For-Pounder
Fin. Allen Iverson has decided to officially retire from basketball. Confronted with the sunset of his career perhaps no other tidbit sums it up as well as the following. Little big man Iverson remains the shortest and lightest player to ever win an MVP. He gave up a whole three inches and twenty-five pounds to […]
Andre Drummond Vs. Anthony Davis In 2013-14
Some of the most cherished memories of the NBA are those associated with two greats pitted against each other in a do-or-die ballet of brains, brawn and bball. Not all got quite the stage Dr. J and Kareem did―even if they were over the hill and gassed from just picking up a basketball―but most of […]
The Anti-Small-Ball Movement Intensifies In Memphis
A look at last season’s NBA Final Four shows that small-ball might be given too much credit. Memphis, though praised most loudly during the playoffs for playing “big” through its bigs, wasn’t alone in subscribing to an anti-small-ball sentiment. Along with Indiana, and to a lesser degree, the Spurs, the Grizzlies decided to buck a […]
Kobe Bryant: The Worst Team He’s Ever Played On
Kobe Bryant’s rookie year ended in defeat for the 1996 Los Angeles Lakers. After a closely matched series with the Portland Trail Blazers—even if the 3-1 game tally doesn’t reveal it—the 96′ L.A. team went up against the Stockton-Malone-led Utah Jazz, and got creamed. As all NBA diehards know, the Lakers franchise tends to recover […]
Timberwolves Uphold Western Conference Peking Order; Re-Sign Nikola Pekovic
Like Nikola Pekovic‘s game, the Timberwolves’ signing of the Montenegrin big man is appropriately sound and robust. Coming off his best NBA year (though not when viewed under a per-36 minutes microscope—more on that later), Pekovic knew he could hold out for a long-term deal even in a changing market. As reported by USA Today, and […]
Charting The NBA’s Most Bankable Backup Point Guards
With good shooting guards as rare as a Carmelo Anthony pass, and the center position dying a slow death, the point guard spot is the league’s deepest position. As NBA Free Agency has shown, candidates like Mo Williams and Beno Udrih fell a rotation behind where they typically would be. Williams behind rookie sensation Damian Lillard […]
NBA Free Agency: Recap Of Latest Moves And Woes Addressed
At this part of the off-season, NBA Free Agency is like that baddie that won’t die in a horror film. No matter how badly you want it to go away, because anyone semi-interesting has already been swooped up, it just presses onward to an ugly finale. Alas, moves are still being made by teams across […]