Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant announced plans on Tuesday for China’s first NBA basketball school, a development the 18-time All-Star says will improve the game in the country. The NBA Basketball School-Mission Hills Haikou will be open to male and female players from junior up to professional level after its completion in 2019 and […]
Despite averaging just 3.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 11.5 minutes, Duke freshman forward Harry Giles will enter the NBA Draft and plans to stay in it, the school announced on Tuesday. The 6-foot-10 Giles had knee surgery before the season began, which prevented him from playing in the Blue Devils’ first 11 games and slowed […]
Silver: Owners must address issue of resting players Fans and the NBA’s television partners are voicing displeasure at teams’ practice of resting star players, and commissioner Adam Silver responded Monday by sending a memo to team owners in which called the sitting of marquee players “an extremely significant issue for our league.” A copy of […]
The Memphis Grizzlies signed guard/forward Wayne Selden Jr. for a remainder of the season to a multi-year contract and waived guard Toney Douglas, the team announced Saturday. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Selden was a member of Memphis’ training camp roster last fall before joining the Grizzlies’ NBA Development League affiliate, the Iowa Energy. He appeared in […]
Would the colorful antics of the father stop me from adding the super-talented son to my basketball team? It wouldn’t bother me if I needed a potential all-star-level point guard and UCLA freshman Lonzo Ball was still on the board when I got on the clock. Still, if a team is going to use a […]
The time is now upon us! The big time matchup is on the horizon between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors. This is the matchup which seemed to be pretty much inevitable all season. All NBA fans worldwide will get to see a rematch of the 2015 NBA Finals which the Golden State […]
This isn’t new. Every single day, radio personalities, television sports talk hosts and newspaper pundits roll out of bed and have to come up with something to talk about. If there isn’t controversy, it’s hard to be interesting. And thus, we constantly are assaulted by questions about sports that don’t matter. So, I’ve created a […]
Ask any coach which specific talents they could use more of on their teams and getting pure shooters is always something in scarce supply. Even in the NBA, where players are far superior in their shooting touch, the number of pure shooters – guys who can be counted on to ‘almost never miss’ when left […]
LeBron James is an enigma. LeBron and I are the same age and we grew up in the same area. NORTHEAST OHIO. We graduated the same year of high school, 2003. I went to Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio and LeBron attended St. Vincent St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. I […]
You have to love the internet. Actually, no, you don’t. You don’t have to love it. Or, at least, you don’t have to love everyone on social media. Time for another round of “Mean Tweets” on Jimmy Kimmel, and just in time for the NBA Finals.