The Sacramento Kings have been mired in a playoff drought but made real progress last season. Is this the year they finally make the leap back to relevance? 33, 38, 17, 25, 24, 22, 28, 28, 29, 33, 32, 27, 39. This is not a LOST-esque sequence of numbers that holds some opaque, secret meaning.
Month: July 2019
ESPN’s series of 30 for 30 documentaries are required viewing for sports fans, but what are the very best films that have been released to this point? Sports fans love stories. Whether they’re anecdotes, contained mythology, detailed accounts or something that combines those three, there’s nothing that gets lovers of sport quite as enthralled as
Jeremy Lin feels like the NBA has given up on him. Could unconscious bias be part of the equation? How would we know if it was? After scholars discovered that ancient texts from all over the world reference every color but blue — there’s literally no mention of blue anywhere but Egypt until modern times
The Nuggets have been steadily improving for the past four seasons, culminating in 54 wins and a No. 2 seed last season. And they’re just getting started. Michael Malone has been the head coach of the Nuggets for four seasons. Over that time, they’ve shown steady improvement with each passing season, raising their win total,
The Portland Trail Blazers have agreed to a hefty three-year extension with CJ McCollum. For better or worse, it ensures the status quo for a franchise trying to get over the hump. General manager Neil Olshey has rarely shied away from ponying up the dough for his own players, and the Portland Trail Blazers’ latest
The Indiana Pacers have decided to go against the grain, putting two centers in their starting lineup. What will it take for their two-big lineup to work? The looming longterm question for the Indiana Pacers last year was whether Myles Turner and Domantas Sabonis, both young centers and among the team’s best prospects, could work
CLEVELAND, CA – JUN 8: JR Smith #5 of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots the ball against the Golden State Warriors in Game Four of the 2018 NBA Finals won 108-85 by the Golden State Warriors over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Quicken Loans Arena on June 6, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User
Now that most of the NBA free agency frenzy has died down, where do all 30 teams line up in for power rankings? Leading up to free agency, many expected it to be crazy and it didn’t disappoint. With shocking moves happening all over the league, it’s clear that the NBA has arrived at a
With the onslaught of free agency now finished and the biggest names signed, it’s time to assess what teams came out ahead and which fell flat. The onset of free agency might as well be a national holiday. Excitement mounts as rumors roil through NBA Twitter and anonymous sources pop up everywhere like dandelions in
Tyus Jones wasn’t a flashy signing but his youth, steady play and the value his contract provides could make him a huge steal for the Grizzlies. One of the big offseason questions for the Timberwolves was whether the team would retain Tyus Jones. The Grizzlies signed Jones to an offer sheet on Sunday night and
As D’Angelo Russell heads to the Golden State Warriors, he will put the dynasty by the Bay to the test as it attempts to find a new identity. In the summer of 2013, the Warriors — then the league’s upstart darling rather than a troubled dynasty — promised they would be players in free agency
Free agency is barely over, but it’s not too soon to look ahead at the ramifications this July could have on some of the NBA’s best players moving forward. NBA free agency is like that first boy-girl party in middle school when everyone goes into it hoping to get seven minutes in heaven but most
Breaking down the players who turned heads and improved their future NBA Draft stock at the FIBA U19 World Championships last week. The 2019 NBA Draft just ended, but the 2020 and 2021 NBA Draft scouting calendar is already underway, with the 2019 FIBA U19 World Championships taking place last week in Greece. The tournament
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George’s movement to L.A. was years in the making. Now the Clippers may have the piece to tip the scales in their direction. Kawhi Leonard has a habit of tipping scales of the NBA. He did so in 2014 as the skeleton key and LeBron James irritant of the Spurs’ last
The Oklahoma City Thunder may be ready to move Russell Westbrook, and these five teams could get a deal done. In concert with Kawhi Leonard deciding to sign with them, the Los Angeles Clippers have also acquired Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder. That necessarily led to immediate questions about Russell Westbrook’s future with
TORONTO, ONTARIO – JUNE 02: DeMarcus Cousins #0 of the Golden State Warriors reacts against the Toronto Raptors in the second half during Game Two of the 2019 NBA Finals at Scotiabank Arena on June 02, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this
He was meticulous about it, but in the end Kawhi Leonard will sign with the Los Angeles Clippers. The wait is over. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Kawhi Leonard has told the other teams in the running that he will sign with the Los Angeles Clippers. Those runners-up were, of course, the Toronto Raptors and
The battle for Kawhi Leonard is now being fought in the rap arena as rap legend Snoop Dogg is now recruiting Leonard to join his beloved Lakers. The battler for Kawhi Leonard has moved into the rap arena. Not long after it was reported that rap superstar and Toronto Raptors Ambassador Drake was going all
The Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes are heating up, and the Toronto Raptors are sending in Canada’s biggest asset to recruit him — Drake. The Toronto Raptors are feeling the heat in the Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes, and now, the team may have to send in the country’s biggest asset to convince King Kawhi to stay in Toronto.
While watching Game 2 of the Finals at home in Atlanta, Jaron Blossomgame got a kick out of Raptors coach Nick Nurse’s box-and-one defense against Steph Curry “I like stuff like that, to be honest,” he says with a laugh. “When you’re in the NBA Finals, you don’t see that stuff very often. But I