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Bye Byron Scott
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So for all the underachieving the Hornets have done early this season, Jeff Bower has assumed the head coaching duties by firing coach Byron Scott. Scott was the head coach of the Hornets for 5 years and his best season came when the Hornets ended the regular season with a 56-26 record...
With injuries mounting in backcourt, Wizards sign Boykins
9 days ago by
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The Washington Wizards have signed free-agent guard Earl Boykins after a series of injuries at that position and waived center Paul Davis.
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The NY Knicks Team Irate Me
19 days ago by
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As usual the New York Knicks lost its first three games of the regular season. Yet we can say close games, but big margins.
Heading into the season the front office didn’t really make a lot of moves during the offseason. Count ‘em, they re-signed David Lee and Nate Robinson...
Refs No Longer Allowed to Leave a Tip
19 days ago by
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Sorry, locker room attendants. Your days of receiving tips from the zebras are now a thing of the past: “The new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and National Basketball Referees Association prohibits referees from paying tips or compensation of any kind to locker...
Hawks’ Josh Smith becomes youngest to reach 900 blocks
19 days ago by
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Josh Smith is the youngest player in NBA history to block 900 shots.
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Bball Nonsense: A few days of Lakers colors for the champs!
23 days ago by
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Derek Fisher led the Staples Center crowd in a 3-2-1 countdown to the unveiling of the banner commemorating the Los Angeles Lakers' 15th championship. Then the Lakers beat the Clippers.
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Blake Griffin’s NBA Debut Delayed 6 Weeks
24 days ago by
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by Marcel Mutoni
Tonight was supposed to mark the beginning of a new era in LA Clippers basketball history. One filled with hope and reasonable amounts of success on the court. Instead, before even a single shot has been taken this season, the team is already behind the Eight Ball...
Season opens with record-tying 83 international players
24 days ago by
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The start of the 2009-10 NBA season will mark 83 international players from 36 countries and territories on official rosters (active and inactive), matching the record of international players on opening night rosters (2006-07). Twenty-seven of the 30 teams have at least one international...
Nique’s Advice for Elton Brand
25 days ago by
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The Human Highlight Film knows something about what Elton is going through at the moment: “Wilkins is one of the few – only – NBA stars to suffer a ruptured Achilles’ tendon and come back to play at his previous level. ‘I was 31 when I got hurt,’ he recalled. ...
Antoine Walker Good Ole’ Days
26 days ago by
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Antoine Walker, one of my favorite players during the early millennium is now facing a BIG problem w/c includes a really big debt. Walker, now is really deep in financial troubles. Boston globe reported the former NBA star have well over 1 million dollars in debt. Reading the post...
Finally the Regular Referees Are Back
28 days ago by
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Finally the NBA and regular referees have reached an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement that would put back the referees to officiating this coming NBA season, Reuters reported.
“We are looking forward to our regular referees ratifying the agreement that we reached...
NBA Teams Making Final Cuts
29 days ago by
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by Ryne Nelson
Although it might be nice, teams can’t go into the season with 20 players on the roster. That’s why we’re seeing plenty of cutting and trimming going on this week. Rather than posting every press release, we compiled everything we’ve heard since Monday into the...
McHale Replaces Gary Payton on NBA TV
29 days ago by
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Some may say that replacing Gary Payton ruins the ‘best studio show ever.’ But we’re looking forward to it! Why? Because, as the Star Tribune’s Judd Zulgad puts it, “This should mean McHale and Charles Barkley will able to have an opportunity to match wits at times.”
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Big Al Out Indefinitely
29 days ago by
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Kevin Love is undergoing surgery, and Al Jefferson is out with an Achilles’ tendon. So quickly the Wolves frontcourt fell: “In a surprising development Monday, Al Jefferson did not practice because of a sore Achilles’ tendon that caused him to play less than six minutes in the...
Stephen Jackson, Love Him Or Hate Him?
October 17, 2009 by
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The recent drama in the NBA is about Stephen Jackson. Just in case you’ve been living under the rock, Stephen Jackson has been fined and suspended by his team for conduct detrimental. He was then removed as a team captain and the drama goes on.
It can be remembered that Jackson...
Rasheed: 72 Wins? No Problem
October 12, 2009 by
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by Marcel Mutoni
When the Boston Celtics signed Rasheed Wallace this summer, they knew they were getting more than just one of the best basketball players of his generation. There was also the larger than life personality. One known for his temper as much as his habit for attempting...
Andre Miller Unhappy With Bench Role
October 12, 2009 by
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Andre doesn’t mince words, and has made things a tad uncomfortable in Portland: “Miller, who is battling with Steve Blake for the team’s starting point guard position, also said he felt wronged by the local media. According to Miller, a one-sided, quick-to-judgment portrait has...
D’Antoni Puts Knicks’ Fate in Robinson’s Hands
October 09, 2009 by
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by Marcel Mutoni
Nate Robinson only knows how to play basketball one way: with manic, sometimes totally out of control energy. It’s what makes him unique, and one of the reasons he’s been able to make a name (and a living) for himself in the NBA.
His coach, though, believes Robinson...
Jerebko, Magloire Suspended
October 09, 2009 by
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According to an NBA press release, Sweeden’s first NBA player, Jonas Jerebko, has been suspended for fighting during his first preseason game against Miami. The Pistons rookie and Jamaal Magloire — who also will miss the season opener — were ejected after throwing punches in...
Kevin Garnett says he’s back!
October 06, 2009 by
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Despite troubling visual evidence suggesting otherwise, Garnett and the Celtics insist that the big fella’s knee is perfectly healthy: “I don’t have any knee problems. I don’t have any knee problems. I’m not trying to get in depth with my injury and all that but the things...
The Return of Manu Ginobili
October 06, 2009 by
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If the reports from San Antonio are to be believed, then expect a lot of yelling from Charles Barkley this season: “By the time Sunday’s game simulation concluded, Ginobili had thrilled about 7,600 basketball-starved witnesses with plays that best can be described as Argentine...
The Talented Mavs Team
October 04, 2009 by
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Looking back in the previous 5+ years Dallas has always proved one thing, they can spend. Backed by billionaire Mark Cuban, the Mavericks always strive to make an improvement every year and this year is no different despite the sour economy. They’ve added several players that...
Andrew Bynum is Dropping Kareem
October 03, 2009 by
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by Marcel Mutoni
Andrew Bynum no longer needs Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s tutelage. Well, he thinks he doesn’t, anyway.
The young fella — who has been billed as the key to the Lakers’ future since the day he arrived in SoCal — thinks he’s gotten all that he can from the greatest...
Nellie Agrees With Monta on Backcourt
October 01, 2009 by
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Ellis’s comments on Media Day may have come as a shock to a lot of people, but not his coach: “Coach Don Nelson talked to Ellis about his previous comments, and they agreed that teams with big shooting guards will make an Ellis-Curry backcourt improbable. Ellis ‘didn’t say...
New-look Magic begin camp with lofty goals
September 30, 2009 by
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Orlando general manager Otis Smith only had to look at the Eastern Conference championship banner that hangs above the team’s practice facility if had any regrets about overhauling a roster that got the Magic to the NBA finals last season.
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