LeBron on the Palace crowd
LeBron James, on whether the “overrated” chants affected him in DC on Thursday: “I’ve played in more hostile environments than this crowd. I’ve been in the Eastern Conference finals in Detroit. You know, so that’s a lot more hostile than a crowd saying overrated.…
April 25, 2008, 10:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Larry Brown wants a job
Larry Brown, officially unemployed and on the prowl for an NBA coaching job.
April 25, 2008, 10:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
As McDyess goes, so go the Pistons
In today’s Free Press, Krista Jahnke notes how Antonio McDyess is prone to letting his success or failure snowball over the course of a game: “He needs to hit early shots to get into a rhythm,” coach Flip Saunders said. Tayshaun Prince said teammates engage in armchair psychology…
April 25, 2008, 10:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Curry a candidate for Bulls job?
Chris McCosky advises not putting too much stock in the “Michael Curry to the Bulls” rumors just yet, but adds “make no mistake about it, Curry is going to be a head coach in this league some day, some day soon. It’s no secret that Curry is being groomed for that role right…
April 25, 2008, 10:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
HP’s NBA Bloggers Season Awards
Hardwood Paroxysm posted the results of their NBA Bloggers Season Awards — congrats to all the winners, especially Need4Sheed, who swept the Readers and Bloggers vote for best Central Division and best Eastern Conference blog.
April 25, 2008, 10:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Take two: Pistons try to pull even with Sixers
(Anyone object if we hit the reset button and start over? What, that’s not allowed? Damn it. If only the NBA were a video game.) The Pistons and Sixers will square off in Game 2 tonight. Flip Saunders called it a must-win, but Chauncey Billups disagrees. Is that some of the team’s…
April 25, 2008, 9:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
League of Extraordinary Bad Boys champ
Several readers and I participated in a fantasy hoops league this year, the League of Extraordinary Bad Boys (though, to be honest I was “that guy” who forgot to update his roster for most of the year). Giving credit where credit is due, DBB readers Tiny and JackDutch tied for the…
April 25, 2008, 9:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Zeke’s next move
Now that he’s been relieved of head coaching duties by the Knicks, what’s Isiah Thomas’ next career move? NBA Comix has the odds.
April 25, 2008, 9:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Maxiell 1st when it comes to 7th
Jason Maxiell may have finished 9th in Sixth Man of the Year Award voting, but that’s because guys who should be starting like Manu Ginobili, Leonardo Barbosa and Jason Terry dominated the voting. A bunch of bloggers voted on the Seventh Man of the Year to recognize true spark plugs off the…
April 25, 2008, 9:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Cross your fingers, but Chauncey’s banged up
From Dana Gauruder’s blog for the Oakland Press: The last thing the Pistons need after losing Game 1 is an injury to one of their regulars. That’s why it was alarming to see Chauncey Billups walking slowly and flexing his right knee after practice. According to Billups and Flip…
April 25, 2008, 9:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Remembering Terry Mills
As I’m sure most of you know, the Detroit Free Press has been running old Mitch Albom columns. Today’s piece (and I use “today” loosely — it originally ran on October 1, 1992) is a reaction to the Pistons signing Terry Mills. I guess I forgot how controversial his…
April 25, 2008, 9:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Pistons are in Philly for Game 3
Andre Iguodala has shot just 5-for-24 from the field and averaged half of his 19.9 points per game in the first two games of the season, but I’m convinced that at some point before this series is over he’ll have his breakout game. Tayshaun Prince is ready for the challenge: Prince…
April 25, 2008, 9:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Josh Howard is old news
Just to put this whole Josh Howard stuff in context, realize that this “story” actually broke a good 12 months ago.
April 25, 2008, 9:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
In defense of young legs
I realize this horse I’m beating has long since moved to the great pasture in the sky, but here’s another take from Henry Abbott of TrueHoop: Studies have shown that, in general, if you want to win now, you play veterans. They know the game best, they play the right way, they have the…
April 25, 2008, 9:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Mo Cheeks testy after Game 2 loss
From the Philadelphia Inquirer (via Full-Court Press): The NBA announced today that 76ers head coach Maurice Cheeks has been fined $25,000 for verbal abuse of the officials and for not leaving the court and going directly to the lockerroom at the conclusion of Wednesday’s 105-88 loss to the…
April 25, 2008, 9:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Game Day Open Thread: Game 3 - Hornets @ Mavericks
Thirteen consecutive losses in Dallas. No wins in the big D since January of 1998.The Hornets are well aware of those facts as they move to Texas for Game 3 of their Playoff showdown with the Mavericks. New Orleans has dominated the Mavs and built a 2-0 series lead at home, but can they continue…
April 25, 2008, 8:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Lakers hang on to lead, 89-79
The Lakers let a 10-point halftime lead slip away, but managed to regain the momentum to lead, 89-79, after three quarters. Nuggets, who trailed, 59-49 at intermission, scored 11 consecutive points to take a 68-67 lead with 5:18 left in the third quarter. The game went back and forth until the…
April 25, 2008, 7:30 PM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Ronny Turiaf better, albeit 11 pounds lighter
EL SEGUNDO — Expect Phil Jackson to tighten up his rotation Saturday, as he usually does in big road games, so there won’t be as many minutes for the second-teamers (Luke Walton over Vladimir Radmanovic, excepted). But Ronny Turiaf should be able take his usual turn as the backup center…
April 25, 2008, 7:15 PM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Jerry Stackhouse should shut the hell up
In case you missed it, here are the comments Jerry Stackhouse made during his radio show on Wednesday..."Chris [Paul] is such a great guy, I think he's been able to kind of deal with Byron Scott. I don't think Byron Scott is the best coach. I don't think he's the best guy to…
April 25, 2008, 5:30 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Hornets-Mavericks: Friday news wrap
Game 3 of Hornets-Mavs tips tonight at 7p.m. Central in Dallas. Here's the latest news, opinions and talk from around the web. To start, here's what Jerry Stackhouse had to say on the radio on Wednesday..."Chris [Paul] is such a great guy, I think he's been able to kind of deal…
April 25, 2008, 5:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
OPEN THREAD: Day 7 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
He scored more than 1 point in the 4th! Hurray! I wouldn't say TMac "took over" in the 4th yesterday but he did have one nice little burst of good play as he hit 2 jumpers, 3 free throws, had a key block and rebound. Outside of that 3 minute span it was the same 'ol do nothing Tmac.…
April 25, 2008, 5:15 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
More emails revealed in case against Sonics
The city of Seattle released more emails that seem to suggest the NBA may have suspected the Sonics breached its good faith agreement with former Sonics owner Howard Schultz. Here's my story from today. Here's the city's filing in New York City. And here is the NBA's response. And here are the…
April 25, 2008, 11:45 AM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Bring me your screamers, your scowl-ers, your bulging-forehead-vein-ers
I shouldn't amend my rule of never taking Jay Mariotti seriously, let alone his dark apprentice, but Greg Couch's sentiment about some of the coaching candidates has been repeated several places: If you throw away some pants because they don't look good on you, do you replace them by…
April 25, 2008, 11:30 AM ET from Blog a Bull
Flip Saunders: “The game should be fun”
From Ryan Pretzer on Pistons.com: And that’s why Wallace’s own coach, Flip Saunders, has a similar view of Wallace’s court behavior. “He’s caught some criticism from people from the last game, but I thought he had a great game,” Saunders said. “That’s his personality. The game…
April 25, 2008, 09:30 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Tracking Rasheed’s wisdom
Speaking of Rasheed Wallace quotes, you might want to bookmark this page on Google News, which tracks the most popular quotes by Rasheed that appear in news articles indexed by Google. (Hard to explain, easy to understand when you see it.) Consider it an always-updated version of DBB’s Sheed…
April 25, 2008, 09:15 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Obama: Hillary couldn’t even make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference
I know Barack Obama loves his basketball, but I still cracked up to see his campaign using NBA analogies while cracking on Hillary Clinton: “Behind in delegates and sporting a 14-30 primary record (not good enough even to make the playoffs in the NBA Eastern Conference), the Clinton campaign…
April 25, 2008, 09:00 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
LeBron on the Palace crowd
LeBron James, on whether the “overrated” chants affected him in DC on Thursday: “I’ve played in more hostile environments than this crowd. I’ve been in the Eastern Conference finals in Detroit. You know, so that’s a lot more hostile than a crowd saying overrated.…
April 25, 2008, 08:45 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Larry Brown wants a job
Larry Brown, officially unemployed and on the prowl for an NBA coaching job.
April 25, 2008, 08:15 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
As McDyess goes, so go the Pistons
DBB reader joejoejoe looked up the numbers and found some interesting stats for Antonio McDyess: The Pistons are 24-14 when McDyess shoots less than 50% from the field. The Pistons are 13-6 when McDyess shoots from 50-59% from the field. The Pistons are 20-1 when McDyess shoots 60% or more from the…
April 25, 2008, 08:15 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is BOOMing!
Q: What's the next best thing to watching Baron Davis blow up the spot and throw up that W in the playoffs at the Roaracle? A: Checking out Boom Dizzle's interview with John Cho aka Harold over on BD's NBA.com blog Setting the Screen! PART I: John Cho "Escapes from…
April 25, 2008, 07:00 AM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Technical Difficulties
Apologies for the site being down (and up and down) over the past day or so. Hopefully the worst of it is over. (no, the SBNation crack technical staff is not on booze. Nor on crack. They have a hard and pretty thankless job, no IT professional wants their clients to be whiny sports…
April 25, 2008, 02:30 AM ET from Blog a Bull
OPEN THREAD: Day 6 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
Well due to maintenence on the site (sorry about that!) the predictions I made earlier today are tainted. So let's just sit back, pop a cold one, and enjoy some good ol' fashioned NBA Playoff Ball eh? Go on. It's almost Friday!
April 25, 2008, 02:00 AM ET from Golden State Of Mind
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