Rick Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals fell to John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats in the national semifinals Saturday. It was a gallant effort by the Cardinals, but in the end the Wildcats’ enormous talent was just too much to overcome. Kentucky has been without a doubt the best team in college basketball in 2012, boasting six potential NBA … [Read more…]
Mike Woodson has a reputation as a good coach around the NBA. He was a solid head coach in Atlanta where he took over a team that won 13 games in his first season in 2004-05, but he was able to turn around the Hawks and had them making three straight playoff appearances by the … [Read more…]
KCAL 9 sports reporter Jim Hill broke the news on Tuesday night that the Guggenheim Baseball Management (GBM) group headed by NBA legend Magic Johnson and his business partners former Atlanta Braves executive Stan Kasten, Mark Walter from The Guggenheim Foundation, and Golden State Warriors minority owner Peter Guber have won the bidding war to … [Read more…]
Golden State Warriors fans are extremely passionate and very knowledgeable when it comes to pure basketball acumen, but their strong devotion to their beloved franchise took an ugly turn on Monday. On a night the organization honored all-time great Chris Mullin by retiring his jersey No. 17, one of only six numbers hanging in the … [Read more…]
So, the trade deadline came and went. The Lakers didn’t make the big move everyone thought they might do in shipping Pau Gasol out and tinkering with the lineup that won them two NBA titles. But, they made a very wise and shrewd move in picking up Ramon Sessions (along with Christian Eyenga) from the … [Read more…]
Despite winning four championships and running one of the model franchises in the NBA, the San Antonio Spurs remain the league’s most underappreciated commodity. This season they’re treating the strike-shortened 66-game schedule like a long business trip. But despite their bland and boring approach nobody should sleep on the Spurs and their All-Star point guard … [Read more…]
The biggest news of the NBA trading deadline didn’t come from Orlando. In fact, the much talked about Orlando deal didn’t happen as All-Star center Dwight Howard finally put down his flip-flops and decided to stick with the Magic for at least one more season. With the Dwight Howard sweepstakes on hold until next … [Read more…]
A month ago the New York Knicks were riding a seven-game winning streak and the entire basketball world was going absolutely bananas over Jeremy Lin. Fast forward to March 12 and the Knicks are now on a steep downward spiral like roller-coaster on Magic Mountain. The Knicks are mired in a six-game slump, losers of … [Read more…]
Many consider 6-foot-11 DeAndre Jordan the most athletic center in the NBA, and he certainly proved it against the Boston Celtics. The Clippers’ big man has more than 90 blocked shots this season, but his most spectacular one came Monday night when he grabbed – yes, grabbed – Rajon Rondo’s shot on its way up. … [Read more…]
There are certain images that are deeply embedded in the history of the NBA. There’s the famous photo of Red Auerbach smoking a cigar on the sidelines in the Boston Garden as the Celtics are about to win the championship. The great decade of the 1980s was defined by the picture of Magic Johnson and … [Read more…]