It wasn’t suppose to end this way for CSKA Moscow, a team that boasts NBA starters Andrei Kirilenko and Nenad Krstic and European star Milos Teodosic and could compete in the NBA. CSKA led for most of Sunday’s Euroleague Final in Istanbul, Turkey. But one dramatic comeback by Olympiakos Piraeus foiled CSKA’s championship aspirations. Trailing … [Read more…]
George Karl summed up Saturday’s thrilling Game 7 playoff battle between the Lakers and Nuggets at Staples Center. The Denver coach said the Lakers’ size proved to be too much for the Nuggets’ speed. Size over speed. That was the difference between the Lakers advancing to the next round and the Nuggets going home. And … [Read more…]
The Los Angeles Clippers are obviously not the same team that went up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series against the Memphis Grizzlies. Their two best players, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, have been slowed by injuries and it has affected the entire complexion of the series. Paul has an injured hip flexor and sore groin, … [Read more…]
Ty Lawson set the tone for Game 6. He made his first four shots and never stopped getting buckets. The Denver point guard said he got some advice from his shooting coach, and it worked. He made 13 of his 18 shots from the field, including 5-for-6 from 3-point range, to lead the underdog Nuggets … [Read more…]
The Memphis Grizzlies are on the brink of elimination in the playoffs because they simply have no answer for L.A. Clippers All-Star point guard Chris Paul. From the start of the series to Game 4, CP3 has been the best player on the court. He willed his team to a 21-point comeback in the fourth … [Read more…]
Andrew Bynum’s mouth may have cost the Lakers a victory in Game 5. Prior to Los Angeles’ potential close-out game against the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers All-Star center said close-out games are “actually kinda easy” because teams “tend to fold in you come out and play hard in the beginning.” Well, well, well. Guess who … [Read more…]
Baron Davis is an old basketball warrior, and sometimes they don’t know when to quit. Well, on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks guard may have played his last game in the NBA but it’s probably not the way Boom Dizzle wanted to go out. With 5:15 left in the third … [Read more…]
For the Utah Jazz to beat the San Antonio Spurs in their best-of-seven series, they almost have to play a perfect game. But pitching a perfect game is probably not a realistic goal at this point goal for team who is still learning how to win on a consistent basis. But one thing this Jazz … [Read more…]
Ever since LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined forces with Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010, the pecking order — in most basketball experts’ eyes — was always Wade first, James second, and Bosh third. Now that LeBron has a full season under his belt as a member of the … [Read more…]
Lost in Orlando’s 97-74 blowout loss to Indiana in Game 2 Wednesday was the excellent play of Magic forward Glen Davis. The man known as Big Baby held down the fort Stan Van Gundy’s Dwight Howard-less crew with team-leading 22 points, including an impressive spin move on the baseline for a short jumper that got … [Read more…]