NBA rule is well-intended but flawed
I don't know if O.J. Mayo did take tens of thousands in gifts from the representative of an agent. I do know this: The accusations ESPN made about the former Southern Cal freshman are plausible. They'd be plausible for any...
May 13, 2008, 10:15 PM ET from Bobcats: Inside the NBA by Rick Bonnell
Game Day Open Thread: Game 5 - Spurs @ Hornets
Here we go, folks.The Hornets will host the Spurs tonight for a pivotal Game 5. Win, and we have two shots to take the series. Lose, and there's a good chance there will be no more games at the Arena this season. So make no mistake: this one is big.Stuff to know... Game Time: 8:30pm Central.TV:…
May 13, 2008, 10:00 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Stuckey is 2nd Team All-Rookie
The NBA revealed it’s All-Rookie teams today, and Rodney Stuckey earned a spot on the second team, though he did receive five first-place votes. All in all, being included among the league’s top 10 rookies is a pretty nice accomplishment for a guy drafted 15th overall, especially when…
May 13, 2008, 9:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Pistons, Magic, elimination game
Enough said. I’m at the game for FanHouse — leave your thoughts in the comments.
May 13, 2008, 9:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
OPEN THREAD: Day 25 of the 2k8 NBA Playoffs
Wow. Talk about fighting the good fight here. If the Celtics aren’t worried, they should be. Not being able to win on the road is a serious serious problem. For a team that had no problem establishing such dominance in the regular season, they seem to be clinging on the edge with their…
May 13, 2008, 9:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Durant earns another honor (and Green, too)
This was announced by the NBA today: Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant and Seattle Sonics teammate Jeff Green headlined the NBA All-Rookie team announced Tuesday. Atlanta’s Al Horford was the only unanimous choice with 58 votes, followed by Durant with 57 in balloting by the league’s…
May 13, 2008, 7:45 PM ET from Sonics Insider by Frank Hughes
Rip Hamilton climbs the leader board
A. Sherrod Blakely points out that Rip Hamilton is on the verge of an impressive milestone: becoming the team’s all-time leading scorer in the playoffs. Making the record all that more improbable is the fact he has been able to do it in just six postseasons. He needs just 10 points to tie…
May 13, 2008, 7:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Update on Chauncey’s hamstring
Chris McCosky has an update on Chauncey Billups’ hamstring: “Speaking of Billups, he continues to make good progress with the hammy. He will test it again in the morning. The Pistons are listing him as questionable. It’s down to whether or not Billups feels comfortable and…
May 13, 2008, 7:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
No reaction to Jameer Nelson’s guarantee
No one on the Pistons seems to be taking offense from Jameer Nelson’s “guarantee.” From Krista Jahnke of the Free Press: “I’ve heard from people that I guaranteed a win, but what am I supposed to do — guarantee a loss? We’ve got to win the game,’’ Nelson said.…
May 13, 2008, 6:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Pictures don’t lie: Pistons caught (another) break
Ben Q Rock of Third Quarter Collapse does a great frame by frame breakdown of referee Mike Callahan’s “cold feet” calling a blocking foul on Jason Maxiell in the final seconds of Saturday’s one-point win for the Pistons. I don’t know if anyone ever wants to see a…
May 13, 2008, 6:45 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
McDyess and Howard tumble
Antonio McDyess explains how he ended up tumbling to the floor with Dwight Howard in Game 4: “I threw him to the ground. Get it right,” quipped McDyess. “I felt that he was trying to bully me, so I saw him trying to throw me down. So I said, ‘I’m not falling by myself.…
May 13, 2008, 6:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Bird vs. Laimbeer
Watching Bill Laimbeer and Larry Bird go at it never gets old. (via TBL)
May 13, 2008, 6:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
In defense of Flip
Kelly Dwyer pens a rather solid defense of Flip Saunders (not that he needs much defending these days). (via LB in the comments)
May 13, 2008, 6:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Jameer has a little Rasheed in him
From Florida Today: Not even a devastating loss, one in which the Magic squandered a 15-point lead and missed a golden opportunity to beat Detroit without All-Star point guard Chauncey Billups could shake the confidence of the 6-foot Nelson. “You know what, we’re going to make some…
May 13, 2008, 6:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Rashard has a little Chauncey in him
Rashard Lewis speaking after Saturday’s 90-89 loss: “We had our chance and let it slip away. For some reason, I feel we’re still the better team,” Magic forward Rashard Lewis said. “We just made too many mistakes at the end. “It was our mistakes, nothing they…
May 13, 2008, 6:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
There are no dumb questions
Random silliness, courtesy of Elie Seckbach.
May 13, 2008, 6:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Pistons/Magic tensions spill into the media room
From Chris McCosky’s blog Friday afternoon: So I go on this talk radio show down here Thursday afternoon. I thought they wanted a Chauncey Billups update. But no, this guy — I don’t remember his name — says, “Now that the Magic have control of the series…”…
May 13, 2008, 6:00 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Dumars: Billups will “try to give it a go tonight”
DBB reader Q-Dog emailed me a little bit ago to inform me that Joe Dumars was a guest on Chad Ford’s NBA Dish podcast on ESPN today: I just finished listening to ESPN’s “NBA Dish” podcast. Joe Dumars was the featured guest and Chad Ford asked him about Chauncey. He said, “…he went…
May 13, 2008, 5:46 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Tay is 2nd Team All-Defense
Tayshaun Prince was named to the All-Defense Second Team today. In the “receiving votes” section, Chauncey Billups earned five first-place votes; Rasheed Wallace, three.
May 13, 2008, 5:46 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Who’s the odd man out in Game 4?
Word on the street is that Chauncey Billups will be a game-time decision. Even if he plays, I think we can count on seeing Juan Dixon and/or Lindsey Hunter active, but at whose expense? Will Jarvis Hayes be wearing a suit on the sidelines? Will Flip Saunders’ Amir-on-Shard experiment be…
May 13, 2008, 5:30 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Stuckey is 2nd Team All-Rookie
The NBA revealed it’s All-Rookie teams today, and Rodney Stuckey earned a spot on the second team, though he did receive five first-place votes. All in all, being included among the league’s top 10 rookies is a pretty nice accomplishment for a guy drafted 15th overall, especially when…
May 13, 2008, 5:15 PM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Hornets-Spurs: Tuesday News Wrap
Big-massive-huge Game 5 between the Hornets and Spurs goes down at the New Orleans Arena this evening. Here's a billion links before the madness consumes us...From Chris Colston in USA Today...The team that wins Game 5 in a best-of-seven that was tied 2-2 has gone on to win 118 of 141 series…
May 13, 2008, 4:15 PM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
New at the GSoM Store 2.0!
Boy am I late with this one. It's actually been posted up on the store for a little over a month now, I just didn't really have a chance to plug it here on GSoM. The great news is that there's new merchandise for sale at the GSoM store…
May 13, 2008, 2:00 PM ET from Golden State Of Mind
Hornets-Spurs Game 5: What to look for
1) Defensive adjustmentsWhat worked so well in games 1 and 2 - the double on Tim Duncan - is no longer working, and tonight I expect Byron to try a different sort of defense. The Spurs countered the double by playing Tim and Manu on the same side of the floor, having Tony deliver, clear and…
May 13, 2008, 12:30 AM ET from Hornets247.com Blog
Game 5 scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Pacific time
The Celtics’ Game 3 loss in Cleveland ensures there will be a Game 5 in that series to be played Wednesday night before Game 5 in the Jazz-Lakers series … so TNT will have a doubleheader that night with the Lakers’ game at Staples Center starting at 7:30 p.m.
May 13, 2008, 07:15 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Crossing the line?
This is just weird. If that were from an amateur blog, I’d probably applaud the creativity. But the Orlando Sentinel? I don’t know, it just seems like newspapers should do a better job of maintaining their mirage of objectivity, something they’ve repeatedly failed at doing this…
May 13, 2008, 07:00 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
“Hoosiers” in Utah
EL SEGUNDO — Hard to view the tall and long Lakers, winners of 14 of 15 games and 10 consecutive, as the tiny underdog going to Salt Lake, but that’s how much is being made of Utah’s home-court advantage. The Jazz are 39-5 at home this season (one of the losses came against the…
May 13, 2008, 07:00 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Billups and Kander’s quality time
Flip Saunders claims he’s thinking about using Amir Johnson in Game 4. From A. Sherrod Blakely: Pistons coach Flip Saunders talked some about Rashard Lewis who has given them fits throughout this series. Lewis’ play is one of the reasons why Jarvis Hayes is out of the rotation, and…
May 13, 2008, 06:45 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Game 3: Jazz 104, Lakers 99
SALT LAKE CITY — And then the NBA’s only perfect postseason team was no more. The Utah Jazz and its stellar home-court advantage collaborated for the Lakers’ first playoff loss in seven outings, with Utah power forward Carlos Boozer breaking out of his slump with 27 points and 19…
May 13, 2008, 06:45 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Rip Hamilton climbs the leader board
A. Sherrod Blakely points out that Rip Hamilton is on the verge of an impressive milestone: Richard Hamilton is on the verge of becoming the franchise’s all-time leading scorer in the playoffs. Making the record all that more improbable is the fact he has been able to do it in just six…
May 13, 2008, 06:30 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
Lakers defeat Jazz, 120-110, in Game 2
By JANIS CARR The Orange County Register LOS ANGELES On a night when the NBA celebrated Kobe Bryant’s magnificence, the other Lakers starters shined right along side him in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. Three other Lakers scored in double figures to go with Bryant’s game-high 34…
May 13, 2008, 06:30 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Game 6 scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Pacific time
The Celtics’ ongoing inability to win on the road in the playoffs has ensured the Lakers another late start time for TV on Friday night in Utah: The Lakers-Jazz game on ESPN will start at 7:30 p.m. (Pacific time) after the Celtics-Cavaliers. Phil Jackson said the other day that it seemed the…
May 13, 2008, 06:15 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Lakers continue to dominate Jazz, 93-83
LOS ANGELES Utah guard Ronnie Brewer, a second-year player out of Arkansas, wants to make a name for his self. He wants to be known as a great defender. This, however, was not how it’s done. Brewer repeatedly got burned by Bryant in the third quarter, at one point, trailed several feet behind as…
May 13, 2008, 06:15 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Some late-season props for Lamar Odom
SALT LAKE CITY — Somewhat lost under the wave of Kobe Bryant MVP hysteria and the impacts of Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum before that has been a pretty fine season from one Lamar Odom, who turned it up in a major way the second half of the season once his surgically repaired shoulder got…
May 13, 2008, 06:00 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Pau Gasol was grinding, and Lamar Odom did a “sack dance”
Sorry for the hiatus, but my laptop rendered itself completely useless late Saturday night in Utah, leaving me to write and file my story about the Lakers’ overtime loss via my PDA, which I tried to view as an interesting challenge. Anyway, after a productive jaunt into the office today to…
May 13, 2008, 05:45 AM ET from Lakers: Locker Talk by Kevin Ding
Horny
What if Jeff Hornacek became the new coach of the Suns... with a staff of specialists... 3 HOF caliber veterans, an MVP candidate and hungry young players who don't defend... and the elite medical staff. He'd be scrutinized but hey he might be able to inspire some decent clutch performances. I like…
May 13, 2008, 05:30 AM ET from The Rising Suns
Reinsdorf speaks, manages to make it sound even worse
Kudos to KC for scoring this interview with the chairman: "I'm disappointed in [D'Antoni]," Reinsdorf said. "I don't know what else we could've done. He chose to go to New York knowing there was a good chance we would make him an offer. If he had really wanted to be in…
May 13, 2008, 03:00 AM ET from Blog a Bull
Update on Chauncey’s hamstring
Chris McCosky has an update on Chauncey Billups’ hamstring: “Speaking of Billups, he continues to make good progress with the hammy. He will test it again in the morning. The Pistons are listing him as questionable. It’s down to whether or not Billups feels comfortable and…
May 13, 2008, 00:15 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
No reaction to Jameer Nelson’s guarantee
No one on the Pistons seems to be taking offense from Jameer Nelson’s “guarantee.” From Krista Jahnke of the Free Press: “I’ve heard from people that I guaranteed a win, but what am I supposed to do — guarantee a loss? We’ve got to win the game,’’ Nelson said.…
May 13, 2008, 00:00 AM ET from Detroit Bad Boys
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