The more you know: the Bulls own a traded player exception
Thanks to Bulls Beat (#38) for alerting me (sorry if this is old news to some, skip and grumble) to a pretty important fact when considering the Bulls options this offseason: a $5.2m trade exception resulting from the Wallace/Hughes crapswap. How? You can read about it, courtesy of "Tommy…
May 15, 2008, 10:45 PM ET from Blog a Bull
Game Day Open Thread: Game 6 - Hornets @ Spurs
Alright, so we've got Game 6 in San Antonio tonight. The Spurs need the win to stay alive and force a deciding Game 7 on Monday. Victory for the Hornets would put us in the Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history. Tyson Chandler and David West are apparently healthy enough to…
May 15, 2008, 9:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
After Game 5, Kobe Bryant’s back no worse for wear
Here was what Kobe Bryant had to say after playing 41:03 of Game 5 (and then taking a long time afterward to lie on the training-room table for treatment on his sore back): “I feel OK. It feels really, really tight right now.” “I knew I wasn’t 100 percent healthy, so I…
May 15, 2008, 8:15 PM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Mitch Kupchak: second-best in the NBA
LOS ANGELES — Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak finished second to Boston’s Danny Ainge in the NBA’s Executive of the Year balloting of league executives, conducted by Sporting News. Ainge got 18 of the 47 votes cast; Kupchak got 14 votes, followed by New Orleans’ Jeff Bower, who got 12.
May 15, 2008, 7:45 PM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Random Jazz fan: “We kicked your …”
EL SEGUNDO — Win or lose, this will be the Lakers’ last trip to Salt Lake City for awhile, which is just fine to them. Phil Jackson complained about the noise level there in advance of the team’s Game 6 trip: “I’m almost pretty sure it’s over the safety…
May 15, 2008, 7:30 PM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Chauncey Billups is (finally) ready to play
Chauncey Billups will be on the court for the start of the Eastern Conference Finals, whenever that may be. From Joanne Gerstner of the Detroit News: Billups, who has missed nearly three playoff games with a strained right hamstring, said Thursday he’s ready to play again. Billups practiced…
May 15, 2008, 7:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Lindsey Hunter’s advice to Rip Hamilton
This is kind of funny. From Krista Jahnke of the Detroit Free Press: Hunter said after the game that Hamilton’s shot selection can anger him. “Hopefully he’ll be settled down a little more (in the next round),” Hunter said. “I’m telling him, ‘You’re…
May 15, 2008, 7:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
OPEN THREAD: Day 14 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
Sheed ain't never done nothin wrong "And that's why the chicken crossed the road" Looks like a blind barber cut Sam D's hair The second round is almost here! Philly's gone fishing after getting blasted last night. I guess Detroit can turn it on whenever they want to against…
May 15, 2008, 6:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
OPEN THREAD: Day 13 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
The 1st round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs is almost over and aside from the title bouts of Al Horford vs Paul Pierce, Deshawn Stevenson (Fear the Untrimmed Beard ) vs Mr. Overrated, and the not so super Soulja Boy vs The Most Overrated Rapper Alive, I'd have to say it's been a…
May 15, 2008, 5:45 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Offseason Q&A: Tim Kawakami (San Jose Mercury) Part 3 of 4
Onto part 3 of our Q&A with Tim where we talk about last summer's dream, Bring KG to the Bay! J-U-M-P. ********** Golden State of Mind: More so than any other member of the media you know all about the Warriors pursuit of Kevin Garnett last summer. KG just…
May 15, 2008, 5:30 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
OPEN THREAD: Day 12 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 11 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs Houston is a little tougher than people thought they would be. I've been dead wrong. I thought they'd just cancel the series after game 3 and not humiliate the Rockets anymore. But the Rockets are showing some life. Dikembe played extremely well…
May 15, 2008, 5:15 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
OPEN THREAD: Day 27 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
HIGHLIGHTS: Day 26 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs Gimme a J! Gimme a U! Gimme a M! Gimme a P! What's that spell? Over in the East we've got the Pistons heading to their 6th straight Eastern Conference Finals (on a side note- where are all those clueless critics who called for Joe…
May 15, 2008, 5:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Hornets-Spurs: More Blowouts than a Hair Salon
So far, everyone appears to be stumped as to why the Hornets-Spurs series has been an excercise in blowouts. Greg Popovich certainly has no answer for it according to his post-game comments from game 5.Being prone to thinking about the Hornets, especially when I'm feeling…
May 15, 2008, 4:30 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Hornets-Spurs: Thursday News Wrap
Game 6 goes down this evening in San Antonio, with the Spurs needing a win to avoid elimination at the hands of our Hornets. Here's the usual bunch of notes, quotes and anecdotes from around the web... Let's start it off with updates on the injuries to Tyson Chandler and David West.…
May 15, 2008, 4:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Integrity, and a laudable body of work
I plan to write more extensively about this in tomorrow's Observer, but here's a quick impression of Bernie Bickerstaff's tenure with the Bobcats: He's a man of exceptional integrity and candor. And the Bobcats will be worse for his absence...
May 15, 2008, 1:00 PM ET from Bobcats: Inside the NBA by Rick Bonnell
Tapscott would be perfect in Atlanta
The Atlanta Hawks need a general manager, and I have their man: Ed Tapscott. No finder’s fee necessary, guys, I just want one of the smartest guys in basketball back in a prominent position in the NBA. Tapscott was the...
May 15, 2008, 12:45 AM ET from Bobcats: Inside the NBA by Rick Bonnell
Ah… The Bittersweet Taste of Ambivalence
As you are no doubt aware by now, the Knicks have hired former Phoenix Suns head coach Mike D’Antoni to be their new head coach (4 years/$6 million per). Opinions are flying in from pundits, bloggers, fans, and onlookers. Opinions, it should come as no surprise, cover the spectrum. Some are…
May 15, 2008, 08:00 AM ET from KnickerBlogger.Net
D’Antoni to be Knicks New Coach
Mike D’Antoni has agreed to become the new coach of the New York Knicks. Four years for $24 million. Wow. I think Mark Jackson is probably a better choice, if only because D’Antoni, like Brown, seems better suited for a team that’s already good, but D’Antoni will certainly bring an…
May 15, 2008, 07:45 AM ET from KnickerBlogger.Net
Dumars talks about the playoffs, Stuckey and Tay’s block
As I’m sure many of you have already seen, Joe Dumars sat down with Keith Langlois for a rather lengthy Q&A for Pistons.com on Wednesday morning. Every time he does this I want to quote the entire article on DBB, but instead I’m just going to pick a handful of highlights and urge…
May 15, 2008, 07:30 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
NBA News and Notes for May 3rd
* Wow, the Celtics and the Hawks are heading for a Game 7! The Celtics will almost certainly win this Game 7, but the sheer fact that they are going to a Game 7 is stunning to me, and must be quite surprising/depressing for all Celtics fans (it is too bad that Simmons’ next column [...]
May 15, 2008, 07:30 AM ET from KnickerBlogger.Net
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