NBA MVP and Beyond: 2013’s Surefire, Darkhorse, and Untapped Award Winners
With more than 80 days left before the 2013-14 NBA season kicks off, it might be too early to be picking winners of awards that won’t be decided until Spring. But it’s well documented that NBA fanatics have the patience of Joey Crawford. Plus, the mother hen known as NBA.com has already opened up the […]
The Best 25 Games From NBA’s 2013-14 National TV Schedule
The schedule for all 142 games the league will air nationally is here for the perusal of all NBA-hungry eyes. Just a glance at the first few matchups for the 2013-14 season shows that the NBA‘s marketing office has been busy predicting ratings-grabbers. Heavy on talent, rivalries, legacies, and big markets, the national TV schedule […]
Are The Knicks Forcing Carmelo Anthony To Walk Next Summer?
Madison Square Garden, home of New York’s darling Knicks, was recently given a notice to vacate the premises. It has 10 years to find a new stomping ground in a highly congested, landlord-controlled New York market. At 29, during his peak years, as last year’s leading scorer, and early on in 2012-13 a leading candidate […]
NBA Off-Season Power Rankings vs Other Sports Outlets
A month after the NBA Free Agency opened its doors to market, the rosters of all 30 teams are pretty much as they will be come the season opener. There are still some semi-interesting pieces out there that can help a championship-contending team, but, for the most part, teams will have to make due with […]
Pistons Sign Brandon Jennings; Why He’ll Bankrupt The Team As Explained By Stats
What’s worse than Brandon Jennings’ shot selection? Having to go through almost a month of free agency with no blips in your team offers radar after you’ve projected yourself as a $12 million-per-year point guard. Even worse: the realization that you might have to return to a team you’ve grown to abhor, in a place […]
NBA Free Agency News And Player Movement Developments
Those that thought the NBA topography was as set as stone, A) don’t understand the ever-changing nature of organic surfaces, and B) should start to see team offices as their own species of shark: if they don’t keep swimming forward through a mantle of emerging talent, available franchise cogs, and backdoor deals, they drown. Or, […]
Team USA Basketball: Scrimmage Recap, Boxscore and Crystal Ball Predictions
It’s not a good time to be a young lawyer in the ole U.S. of A. but when it comes to rising basketball stars, the future couldn’t be brighter. Team USA had an internal scrimmage yesterday that had the country’s best up-and-comers vying for a spot on Coach K’s (Mike Krzyzewski ) 2014 World Cup […]
NBA Sophomore Class: Players Due For a Jump Next Season
Coming into this new season, a lot of the NBA’s attention will be on the incoming class, the Rooks, and the pandemonium will mostly drown out the laurels of the Sophomore Class (unless you’re Anthony Davis). But the second year in an NBA player’s career is an important juncture. Players are no longer the butt […]