Losers: Los Angeles Lakers Maybe it’s unfair to put the Lakers here, after all they’ve been without three of their best players, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Julius Randle, for long stretches due to injuries. However, the Lakers still remain…
Winner: Detroit Pistons While some trade deadline deals are made with only the current season in mind (rentals!), this year’s deadline featured many players (Michael Carter-Williams, Enes Kanter and Isaiah Thomas) who’ll be integral parts of their new team’s future…
The latest edition of “Who He Play For?” Only this time it’s “Who Did He Play For?”
Winner: Miami Heat The Heat may have just won trade of the century, or at least the deadline. Miami took advantage of the unbalanced point guard situation in Miami and pried Goran Dragic (and his brother Zoran) from the Suns.…
The Milwaukee Bucks had been stuck somewhere between the end of the lottery and the middle of the league for the longest time. Up until last season weren’t truly bad enough to get into the upper echelons of the lottery…
The NBA trade deadline has always played second fiddle to Major League Baseball’s trade deadline. While it will always trump the NFL’s generally underwhelming trade deadline, it lived up to the annual precedence set by baseball with a bevy of…
5 Five—number of turnovers in 14 minutes played for Raptors reserve guard Grevis Vazquez. He had seven turnovers all season entering the game. 27 27—number of points scored by Bulls big man Pau Gasol, a new season high. Gasol also…
This is going to be short for me. I have pieces to write about more important things. I am not the outgoing NBA commissioner’s biggest fan. I have called him biased and questioned his podium presence. (Which, if you’re commissioner,…
Do you live in Cleveland? How about some other market? Or are you just a normal, sympathetic sports fan? If so, you probably hate the Miami Heat!!! It would make sense to me if you lived in Cleveland or Toronto…
Probably should read “dumb struck” instead of “thunder struck” after the season. Why didn’t our beloved Oklahoma City Raiders (sorry) Thunder go deep in the NBA playoffs? Why didn’t we win all the games we were supposed to? I’m not…