Every time a sports season ends, many coaches whose teams underachieved lose their jobs. It’s just part of the game. Coaches are hired to be fired in most cases. The NBA season is over for most teams so now is a good time to look at the vacant jobs and speculate on who may take [...]
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It is a bit early to project the draft order for the upcoming NBA draft. First, we don’t know which players will come out early and which won’t. Unlike football, every player in college basketball is eligible to enter the draft at the end of the season. So predicting who will and who won’t is [...]
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As the NBA regular season winds down, we know there will be coaching change made. There are every year. So let’s take a look at ones who likely won’t be back for the start of next season: Doug Collins, Philadelphia 76ers- The Sixers were a playoff team a year ago. They won’t be this year. [...]
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The Los Angeles Clippers appear to once again be a contender now that their stars are back in the lineup. They closed their eight game road trip, which saw them lose games to the Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons and Toronto Raptors, at 4-4. That may not been what they were hoping for when they looked [...]
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The Los Angeles Clippers welcomed Chris Paul. Blake Griffin and Chauncey Billups back to the lineup of Friday against the Miami Heat. But it was hardly noticeable as Lebron James scored 30 points on only 11 shot attempts from the floor and Dwayne Wade chipped in 20 points to blow the Clippers out 111-89. The [...]
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The Los Angeles Clippers played without Chris Paul again on Monday and to make matters worse, they also had to scratch Blake Griffin with a sore hamstring. That was more than they could overcome as they lost again 98-90 to the Washington Wizards. The Clippers have now dropped three in a row and seven of [...]
Continue ReadingThe Oklahoma City Thunder improved their NBA best record to 32-8 with the career high scoring night from their superstar Kevin Durant who scored 52 in the game. He had nine of the Thunder’s 12 points in the overtime period. His running mate Russell Westbrook had 31 points as well as they survived a late [...]
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This Los Angeles Clippers/Los Angeles Lakers is just good TV. You have the Lakers, who were supposed to walk away with the whole thing this year with their new superstar studded lineup of Dwight Howard, Steve Nash, Pau Gasol, Ron Artest and perhaps the game’s best player in Kobe Bryant. The Lakers have all the [...]
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The Los Angeles Lakers have lost three in a row now and four of the last five. Steve Nash is playing. Dwight Howard is playing. There are no more excuses. Yet the Lakers are still not getting it done. It is time to start doubting whether this “super-team” is even going to make the playoffs, [...]
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Last year at this time the NBA season was just getting started. Because of a labor dispute between the owners and players, the regular season began on Christmas. There were many, and some still agree, the Christmas would be a good time to start every NBA season. Many feel 82 games is too many. College [...]
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