Lenny will not be color guy for Fox next year
I have confirmed that Lenny called FSN earlier today and informed them that because of his demotion, he will no longer be the team's color analyst. No word on who his replacement is, but if I am Kevin Calabro I am feeling a little like Elizabeth Taylor with husbands.
June 07, 2007, 10:45 PM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Transcript of Presti news conference
This is long, but this is the transcript of today's news conference. Clay Bennett: Thank you all for being here today. It’s an important day, an exciting day for all of us here at the Sonics. After a thorough process, where Lenny and I had the ability to cultivate a broad group of candidates…
June 07, 2007, 10:00 PM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Post Sam Presti news conference
A couple thoughts about the news conference: First, I thought Sam Presti handled himself pretty well for a guy who is only 30 years old. You could see that he was nervous, but I thought he was articulate and focused. Secondly, I would have liked to see more substance from the news conference. It…
June 07, 2007, 8:45 PM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Will You Be Watching?
Ever since the Warriors and Suns got knocked out of the playoffs, I haven't watched much of the NBA playoffs because none of the teams and matchups were of much interest to me. I know I'm not the only one. Many people tuned out once the teams with high interest were bounced. The Spurs and Jazz…
June 07, 2007, 4:15 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Hype the Beard
The other night I rolled through to the first ever Ballhype meetup in San Mateo. I have to say that among the thousands of great folks in attendance, the fellas from Fear the Beard- "The East Bay Culture Blog with a High Basketball IQ"- really stood out. I always thought…
June 07, 2007, 4:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Mickael Gelabale and Johan Petro left off French national team
I just caught this story today, but Gelabale and Petro both have been left off the French national team, something that both they and the Sonics were banking on for further development for them this summer. I am cut-and-pasting the story. Have to ask at today's press conference for Sam Presti what…
June 07, 2007, 4:00 PM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Rumor: Warriors and Bulls Want Yi
Earlier today Chad Ford dropped version 3.0 of his mock draft on ESPN.com (stay tuned for the 2nd Edition of We're Mocking You). In his mock draft Yi Jianlian of The Movement fame is slotted to go to the nuclear disaster that is the Boston Celtics with the #5 pick. BUT Ford sees the Golden…
June 07, 2007, 3:45 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Dwight Howard Endorses The Movement
The man child that is Dwight Howard is in many ways Baby Shaq. He's an absolute beast on the glass and throws it down like Shaq in his Orlando days where the backboard was simply at his mercy. Last season Howard was good for nearly 18 points a game and a shade over 12 rodmans a game. He…
June 07, 2007, 3:30 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Does David Stern Know Where the Warriors Play?
Although I've been very critical of NBA Commissioner David Stern's recent moves and think it's time for him to retire, there's no question that he's a brilliant man who has done many wonderful things for the league during his tenure. Having said that, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed…
June 07, 2007, 3:15 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Rasheed Wallace to the Knicks?
The offseason has barely started and there’s already been a ton of trade rumors, most of which I haven’t really addressed here. In addition to the Zach Randolph stuff (which I don’t put much weight in), there’s now this: the New York Daily News reports that Isiah Thomas…
June 07, 2007, 3:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Witness the Return of the NBA Season
Just before Conference Finals began I declared the NBA season over. Well thankfully I was only half right. The Western Conference finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz was incredibly painful featuring such lowlights as the Jazz fans overtaking the Pistons' fans as the…
June 07, 2007, 3:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
On blowing up the team
Henry Abbott emailed me asking my thoughts about the Pistons’ future, specifically whether Joe Dumars might actually break up the team’s core by pulling off a major trade. My answer? Maybe. Okay, it was a little more detailed than that: Short answer: I don’t know if he will, but I…
June 07, 2007, 2:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Rumor: Sarunas Jasikevicius for Bob Sura
It looks like the Warriors are are working on a little contract dump a la Derek Fisher to the Utah Jazz last summer. According to Frank Hughes of The News Tribune: They [Houston Rockets] also are attempting to send the expiring contract of retired guard Bob Sura to the Golden State…
June 07, 2007, 2:45 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
There's a bee on your hat
I've been trying real hard lately to be nicer to people. Really, I have. I've even started to feel bad for calling Ron Boone a dumbass for not giving Chris Paul his ROY vote last year. (And that's not just because Deron Williams had a superior sophomore season).But then somebody like…
June 07, 2007, 2:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
HOT OR NOT - Throwback T-shirts?
Is this throwback worthy? Is this edition of "Hot or Not?", we take a trip down memory lane to the bball days of the mid 90s where basketball shorts finally dipped to the knee, shimmer gear had become the equivalent to rayon as far as hot new fabric of basketball clothing, and a new…
June 07, 2007, 2:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
TBJ on the NBA Finals
Did you swear off reading any NBA Finals previews? That’s fine … but what about listening to previews? Tas Melas, J.E. Skeets and SI.com’s Kelly Dwyer break down the Cavs-Spurs matchup on (the always outstanding) The Basketball Jones podcast.
June 07, 2007, 07:45 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Will You Be Watching?
Ever since the Warriors and Suns got knocked out of the playoffs, I haven't watched much of the NBA playoffs because none of the teams and matchups were of much interest to me. I know I'm not the only one. Many people tuned out once the teams with high interest were bounced. The Spurs and Jazz…
June 07, 2007, 07:15 AM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Spurs in five
I'm in San Antonio now to track the NBA Finals for however long that the Cavs can keep it up. I dare say that I'm easily expecting to be home in time to play softball for my Wednesday night team on June 20 (Game 7 would be June 21). The team is already peeved that it had to go without its shortstop…
June 07, 2007, 05:45 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Mid-week link dump
Carnival of the NBA #44, which leads with a messed-up comic. (And speaking of the Carnival: I swear, going forward, I'm going to do more to maintain a schedule for it.) In that similar spirit of blog solidarity, I've updated my blogroll on the right side of the page.…
June 07, 2007, 02:00 AM ET from Blog a Bull
The no excuses team won
Say what you will about the Cavs and their offense, Lord knows I've said and written a lot about it, but they are a world class defensive team and have one of the most talented players the game has ever...
June 07, 2007, 00:30 AM ET from Cavaliers Blog by Brian Windhorst
LeBron will always have this one
No matter what happens for the rest of this conference final series, and the possibilities are endless in either direction, there were some memories made in the Cavs win in Game 3. You can count on seeing LeBron James' dunk...
June 07, 2007, 00:15 AM ET from Cavaliers Blog by Brian Windhorst
The last one is the toughest one
Things have changed quite a bit and quite fast in this series. Now, it must be said, the Cavs are the favorite. At the moment, they are indeed now the de facto No. 1 seed with homecourt advantage to advance...
June 07, 2007, 00:00 AM ET from Cavaliers Blog by Brian Windhorst
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