The NBA 2013-14 season is just over one week away. Training camps and preseason action is fizzling out as the nature and likely story lines of the upcoming season become more obvious. The Southeast division will once again be all about the Miami Heat and their attempt to reach a fourth consecutive NBA finals and…
Introducing This Season’s New NBA Head Coaches
13 of the NBA’s teams will start the 2013-14 season with a new head coach. That has become a pretty standard story line in professional sports, which is a results business. Of those 13 new coaches, nine of them will be coaching in the NBA for the very first time. It’s time to introduce Michael…
What Do Josh Smith and Al Jefferson Signings Mean?
All of the front court 2013 NBA free agent attention was focused upon Dwight Howard and where he will end up. However, two other major free agent front court pieces were also available summer in former Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith and former Utah Jazz forward Al Jefferson have also made up their minds in…
NBA Head Coaching Changes: Who Will End Up Where?
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…
2013 NBA Mock Draft : The Cellar Dwellers
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…
What NBA Coaches are on the Hot Seat?
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.…
NBA Regular Season Too Long?
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…