2013 NBA All-Stars: Battle Of The Studs and Duds
The first returns of the 2013 NBA All-Star ballot are in. Many expected and familiar faces lead the pack, with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James securing the most votes for each of their conferences. The NBA’s newest approach to the balloting―removing the “center” position, and relegating players to either a frontcourt or backcourt class―seems to […]
30,000 Points From Nowhere: Is Kobe Bryant Hurting The Lakers?
And then there were five. Kobe Bean Bryant has scaled the 30,000 career points mountain; Kareem, Wilt, The Mailman, and His Airness now have studded company. He is the youngest, but yet the slowest, to reach the coveted mark, needing a whole three seasons more than Jordan to do it. Still, it certainly adds to […]
2 Diamonds In The Rough Western Conference
League-wide the debate over who is its best point guard usually involves the names Chris Paul, Deron Williams, at times Rajon Rondo, and when he was around to change lanes faster than Jason Statham, Derrick Rose. When limiting the ranking to the Western Conference, you have CP3, Tony Parker, and Westbrook dominating the conversation. But two […]
Howard Has To Win Back “Best Center” Honors
With the announcement that the league has modified the All-Star ballot by removing “center” as a voting option, many would think that height is no longer a factor in the NBA. Accommodating to an area of hybrid-positional players, supposedly as best evidenced by last year’s Miami Heat championship run, the league now gives fans the […]
The Case For Jamal Crawford
While the 2012-2013 NBA season is still in its infantile stage, people have already taken to making their cocksure predictions. Something that up to this point hasn’t served the Lakers fans (or the Knicks doubters) well. Predictions are usually just whims based off of loyalties or passions and rarely take into account analysis and careful […]
Winter Court Jerseys Are An NBA Winner
There have been some hideous team jerseys over the years. Just do a quick Google image search of the ‘74 Cavs road jersey, the rainbow patterned 1985-1993 Nuggets home wear, and the horrendous Toronto Raptors camouflage set to make your eyes sting. If fans should ever burn jerseys it should be for an offensive color […]
Brooklyn Nets’ New Pornstar…err…Mascot
The Brooklyn Nets took what essentially could have been a problem-stricken move to the New York borough and made it as silky smooth as Jay-Z’s delivery. But the man with 99 problems didn’t account for a big one. After making their season debut at the Barclays Centers, and after a brief introduction from their All […]