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PHOENIX, PHAVORITES Ascension to an NBA throne used to feel like a left-to-right video game you had to finish without use of warp zones. You took lumps from any number of Buck, Sixer, Celtic or Piston teams before the NBA let you lose your first Finals, let alone
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Baseball means a lot to me, I know everything there is to know about my favorite club. And that’s it. I could not name 20 percent of last year’s MLB All-Star team and can not recognize ten percent of it via photograph. I have not watched a
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KEVIN DURANT Eventually he’ll be as potent as ever, just hope the Nets understand what Kevin Durant is up against. Durant’s thinking about a championship, about acclimation, about settling scores. The Nets have to remember what happens when Durant plays through something he shouldn’t. Take your time
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Or we will send Himself after you. THE TAKE FOUL The NBA made it an “extra” foul to stop a fast break via intentional grab 15-years ago, yet for whatever reason the league adds stupid nuance to the violation. After a whistle the refs halt action to stand under
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Pamphlets, for those who need them. DETROIT PISTONS THE BAD NEWS Nothing ran clever, the Pistons didn’t sneak up on anyone, Troy Weaver didn’t pull something amazing for Jerami Grant, we’re all still just sort of here. Worst net rating in the NBA. Kelly “Lunch Lady” Olynyk
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Best of the trade deadline0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Blow Pop flavors, ranked.) Thank the Nets and Sixers for not being precious. Buncha babies before the trade deadline, afraid to hand the the other one a division title, a Finals berth, a championship. Isn’t that what they
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The Pacers are 19-36, seven games out of the play-in tourney. Ayo Dosunmu dunked them right into the trade deadline. HOLY SH*T. AYO DOSUNMU. — Bulls Talk (@NBCSBulls) 2:22 AM ∙ Feb 5, 2022 Not Myles Turner. Or Domantas Sabonis, who returned Sunday to post nine points, 11
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Trade deadline headlines0:00/2001× (Kukočast: Bulls win, everything’s fine.) The Sixers want to trade now, for James Harden, whose left leg and right hand don’t work. With the NBA trade deadline just days away on Feb. 10, the 76ers are expected to pursue Harden in the coming
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Because I can’t help it. I will never be Doug Moe. WORRIED WE WASTED A YEAR OF EMBIID He’s in the best shape of his career at age 27, playing only 32.8 minutes a game. The Sixers smartly sat him 11 contests so far this season, nursing
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Frank Vogel fights for his job twice a day: Over the past week and a half, Lakers management has told the coaching staff to coach Westbrook as the coaches see fit, even if that means pulling him from a game, as Vogel did for the final 3 minutes, 52 seconds