How Quickly They Forget: Why Tracy McGrady Deserves HOF Praise
Held up against the mountainous accomplishments of greats like Jordan, West, Bryant and Drexler, shooting guard Tracy McGrady’s own success looks pale. Even when compared to the resume of contemporary Allen Iverson, his own looks hole-ridden. But how quickly they forget. McGrady never got past the first round of the playoffs (until he became a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]