What a great first round. We, the humble fans of the NBA, have been given some great contests filled with buzzer beaters and last second heroics. The first round rattled off without much of a hitch as the favored teams have won as expected. The only outcome which remains to be... Link
Though I enjoyed it very much, the slam dunk contest was a joke. The problems have been written about all over the place, so instead I'll offer a solution. Each of the four contestants get four dunks. The first three rounds are limited to three attempts per dunk with... Link
Well I’m glad the NBA (David Stern) came to its senses and invited Gilbert Arenas to play in Houston this weekend after all. Too bad Gil had to go and finish the first half of the season with a 4-for-22 effort and 6 turnovers at Dallas. Ouch.So we have... Link
Mike Monroe of THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS writes "The Spurs have a rule when they play at home and don't have a travel schedule to keep: If you don't get at least 15 minutes in the game, you have to put in 15 minutes on one of the... Link
Well, the rich keep getting richer, huh? Fresh off another NBA Championship, the Spurs have lost Tony Massenberg, Mike Wilks, Glenn Robinson, and Sean Marks, and replaced them with Fabricio Oberto, Nick Van Exel, and Michael Finley. Rough life, huh? Anyhow, these are the defending champs, so there’s plenty... Link
Yahoo! Sports - NBA - Reports: Knicks sign center Jerome James The New York Knicks and free-agent center Jerome James agreed to a five-year deal, according to several media reports. -foot-1 veteran who averaged 4.9 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.39 blocks per game in a career-high 80 starts for... Link
I watched the game just like everyone else, and yes I would agree that the Suns lost because they couldn't stop anyone in the final minutes. However that's just scratching the surface of their problem. I've been told time and time again that comparing bench scoring is overrated because... Link
Manu Ginobili scored 30 points in 34 minutes and Nazr Mohammed added 14 rebounds - 12 in the first half - as the San Antonio Spurs clinched the Southwest Division title Tuesday night with a 95-89 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. It's the fourth division title in the... Link
I apologize for my last "whatever it was - it wasn't a column" thing I posted earlier today. In many aspects of life, inaction is better than doing something half-assed. And make no mistake, I would have spent another hour on last night's "post" to bring it up to... Link
The Knicks beat the Spurs last night in their first meeting since their trade deadline deal, so Malik Rose had the last laugh - at least for the time being.... Link
Typically i don't think it's right to post an entire entry this way, but in this case i'm making an exception, since this letter would be freely available to any Raptors fan who signed up to be an "insider" on the www.raptors.com website. I also looked for a link... Link
The Suns were the trendsetters. The Warriors followed suit. And now it looks like the Hawks are the latest. (You could even argue that by playing P.J. Brown at center when Jamaal Magloire went out, the Hornets were the second team to do it.) Yes, we soon might have... Link
1. Double Team Assists (DTA) Shaq gets the ball in the low post, so the opposition sends an extra player to defend him. O'Neal passes it out to Wade who is met by a rotating defender. Wade passes it to a wide open Eddie Jones, who drains the jumper... Link
One of the statistics I have been looking at a lot lately has been the on court off court defensive stats at the 82 games site. Many believe figuring out who are good defenders and who are not is almost impossible. I think its difficult, but not impossible. I... Link
According to my stat page, the Knicks have the 6th worst defense in the league. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has followed them this year, as they have failed to stop teams from scoring night after night. Even in yesterday's 113-105 victory over the Blazers, Portland... Link
Team Chemistry ... and why it often doesn't matter when it comes to fantasy basketball. In the latest episode of "As The Kobe Turns" ("Kobes of our Lives"? "General Kobe"?) Kobe Bryant is now crying about how Karl Malone was hitting on his wife. Meanwhile, he refers to his... Link
[Today's entry comes to us from KnickerBlogger.Net's Head Scout David Crockett, Ph.D who attended the Knicks/Bobcats game in person. He is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of South Carolina, and can be reached at dcrockett17@yahoo.com.] Anyway, not having looked at the box score or other numbers... Link
If you haven't read Part I already, then you might want to do so now. The main reason the Knicks can afford losing Kurt Thomas is because Mike Sweetney (18.1, 17.1, -6.2) is ready to play PF full time. I'm not the only one who feels this way. Back... Link
How did the Knicks win last night? The easy answer was a heave-ho off the glass from what seemed like 40 feet. What Jamal Crawford described after the game as the biggest shot of his career, gave the Knicks their first road win of the 2005 season. New York didn't... Link
