The Sun Belt Conference is wrapping up its regular season schedule right about now, so there are only a few more opportunities for the teams of this league to either impress the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee or to get prepared to take the Sun Belt Championship-and thus earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. […]
While Tim Duncan rightly gets the fanfare for making the San Antonio Spurs the league’s most consistently dominant team over the last decade, guard Manu Ginobili has often been what has separated the Spurs from the rest of the league. With his contract set to expire at the end of the season, the Spurs seemed […]
Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy has never been one to hold back his opinions. This time, his target seems to be the playoff schedule, which has substantial gaps between games. Instead, Van Gundy would favor a schedule in which games are played back-to-back, with gaps only added for travel. For Van Gundy, this […]
Chicago Bulls Vice President John Paxson should be used to seeing the expressions on the faces of his players after they were handed a crushing defeat by LeBron James and the Cavaliers in Cleveland. He used to see the same look on the faces of players all the time when he used to play alongside […]
While the fanfare rightly will center on LeBron James this postseason, Shaquille O’Neal will likely play a prominent role in the playoffs and could win his fifth NBA title in the process. Though Shaq is already in elite company in terms of the all-time great big men, he also has a fairly unique opportunity to […]
No one would have blamed Grant Hill if he had thrown in the towel years ago. After taking the league by storm in the late ’90s, Hill faced ruinous ankle injuries that threatened to end his career. Following a horrific stint with the Orlando Magic, in which he hardly played, Hill eventually landed in Phoenix, […]
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was on my feet, leaning heavily to one side, trying to urge Gordon Hayward’s half-court heave into the hoop with every ounce of body language I had in me. I let out an audible “Oh!” as the shot nearly banked in, then slumped into my couch […]
(1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Oklahoma City Thunder: My best guess to how this series unfolds is that the Thunder come out in game one and get rocked due to youthful jitters in their first playoff game. I think they’ll steal Game 2 by outhustling the Lakers and will end up taking the series […]
(1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Oklahoma City Thunder: My best guess to how this series unfolds is that the Thunder come out in game one and get rocked due to youthful jitters in their first playoff game. I think they’ll steal Game 2 by outhustling the Lakers and will end up taking the series […]
Everyone knows that the Chicago Bulls are in a precarious position in the first round against the Cleveland Cavaliers. No one is likely to give them a shot at winning the series. Many don’t even expect them to win a game. But as arduous as the series is likely to be for the Bulls, their
