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Joe Torre once said a good manager can add maybe five wins to a team’s total over 162 games, but a bad manager can torpedo an entire season. Last night’s 133-120 Knicks’ win over the Memphis Grizzlies offered two rebuttals to Torre’s take, via a coach whose approach could net his team far more than […]
Things keep progressing positively for LeBron James as he prepares for his return to the basketball court. LeBron will now reportedly be practicing with the South Bay Lakers. There appear to be no restrictions on James, as this practice also includes 5-on-5 action. LeBron has yet to make his season debut with the Lakers. He […]
Here’s the latest evidence that the Dallas Mavericks (3-8) need to chuck the two-timeline nonsense out the window and focus on the team’s young core of players. Amid all the torment and injury struggle, all the insincere win-now rhetoric and the roster construction favoring tall men with long arms, one of the only effective offensive […]
Will the Knicks ever lose a game again? Will New Yorkers ever watch their team drop one inside MSG? We don’t know about that, but we surely heard the protagonist of yet another home win talk a bunch in the past few hours. Mike Brown On Ja Morant and the Grizzlies: “[The Grizzlies are] really […]
The NBA has announced a change to February’s All-Star format, pitting the best from the US against the world’s top international talent. In the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players (known as the World team) will compete in a round-robin tournament featuring four 12-minute games. The […]
The Portland Trail Blazers look to regain their swagger versus the New Orleans Pelicans on the third game of a five-game road trip. The team rolls into the Crescent City, licking its wounds after dropping two winnable games against the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic. This Pelicans team is banged up and trying to find […]
Another tough loss that could very easily been a win with better execution at the end. Sixers fans are terrible. They trash their team and everyone on it. They were hating on Oubre and wanting him out of the game before he hit that last shot and then suddenly he is clutch. I agree with the comment that the announcers just didn't talk about the game. I really hate that about national games. There is no play by play. Just talking about every...
Desperate to snap a three-game skid, the Chicago Bulls will face the same team that kicked off their 5-0 start. A 4-game road stretch starts tonight in Detroit. ⏰ 6 pm CT 📺 @CHSN__ 📻 @670TheScore 💻 https://t.co/0Gl3hZ96l1 pic.twitter.com/7uGafKmFeV — Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) November 12, 2025 While the final score was 115-111, Chicago was in complete control for the majority of that opening night game. They were up by as much as 23 points and outperformed the Pistons...
When the Mavericks announced the firing of General Manager Nico Harrison, it felt as if a storm cloud had finally cleared over the Dallas Mavericks. This came after an utterly miserable 9 months following the Luka trade, filled with anger and resentment. But now we can move forward as Mavericks fans, and begin to look […]
In last night’s 102-100 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Celtics reached clutch minutes for a seventh time this season, tied for the fourth most 5-under-5 situations in the league. Of their five clutch losses, two of which have now come at the hands of the Sixers with their three matchups decided by a total […]
On Monday, ESPN’s Bobby Marks highlighted 12 potential free agents who’ve gotten off to a hot start in the 2025-26 season as his “Contract-Year All-Stars.” He excluded players who’ve previously made an All-Star or All-NBA team, which automatically disqualified the likes of LeBron James, James Harden and Trae Young. That opened the door for two […]
New York, Cleveland, and Orlando. Those three teams, in varying orders, were who many thought would be at the top of the Eastern Conference come playoff time. About 12% into the regular season, New York, which enters tonight second in the conference, has held up their end of the bargain. Cleveland, who has dealt with […]
The shot, a three-pointer from the right wing, looked like nine of the first 10 VJ Edgecombe attempted Tuesday night. Which is to say, it appeared to have no shot at all. “It hit back rim,” the Sixers’ rookie said. “I was like, ‘Ahhh.’” Then the ball bounced high in the air. “I was like, ‘OK, maybe […]
Trotsky. Ceaușescu. Khrushchev. Sadat. Gorbachev. Hussein. Gaddafi. And now, Harrison. Figureheads come and figureheads go, am I right, comrades? But the Great Eagle, immutable, clean and bright, continues to soar overhead. We here at the Great Adelsonian Politburo, and in particular those of us in the upper echelon of the Mavericks State Media Apparatus, wish […]
In a preview before Friday night’s NBA Cup game, the 7-4 Milwaukee Bucks head to the Spectrum Center to take on Rookie of the Year candidate Kon Knueppel and the 3-7 Charlotte Hornets. The Bucks have shown a tendency to play to their opponent’s level—good and bad—so tonight’s game is a chance to right that […]
Rather than ride the momentum of a second straight road win, the Celtics left Philadelphia reflecting on a missed opportunity on Tuesday night. Hours before tip-off, word broke that 76ers star Joel Embiid would sit out Philadelphia’s rivalry matchup with Boston due to right knee soreness, giving the Celtics an immediate advantage. But instead of […]
For nearly three quarters in Chicago on Monday, Victor Wembanyama looked ordinary – well, at least for his extraordinary standards. The 7-foot-5 forward moved carefully, probing but never truly penetrating the Chicago Bulls’ defense. He came into the game on a slump, averaging just around 17 points per game over the previous three games. His […]
The Denver Nuggets – on the second night of a back-to-back – head into Los Angeles to face the Clippers tonight. Denver took the… The post Preview: Nuggets head into LA on no rest to face the Clippers appeared first on Denver Stiffs .
Cooper Flagg has had an interesting few days. First, he had a breakout game at Milwaukee on Monday. Then, Tuesday morning, the Dallas Mavericks fired GM Nico Harrison. After that, Flagg’s mother, Kelly, posted some comments after the firing that were misconstrued (she clarified what she meant). And he also has his first NBA injury. […]
After a promising rookie season, Justin Edwards came back and had a bad summer league. He had a bad preseason as well — so much so that he was essentially out of the rotation by the time the regular season started, despite two forwards in Paul George and Trendon Watford not being healthy for opening […]
With a chunk of the season complete, it’s time to take stock of a pair of assets for this upcoming offseason. The Hawks sit at 6-5 despite losing Trae Young in the fifth game of the season due to a knee sprain. It will take time to write the story of this season on the […]
The Mavericks were 1-3 this past week, and remain in 14th place in the West. The lone win came against Washington (111-105), while the three losses came in Memphis (118-104) and at home to New Orleans (101-99) and Milwaukee (116-113). Cooper Flagg, for the first time in his young career, led the team in scoring […]
In another offbeat Spurs video, the team was asked which mode of travel they’d utilize to go fromSan Antonio to Austin if a car was not an option. Horse seems to be the go-to answer. But helicopter makes a lot of sense. Loved that Luke Kornet was thinking of building a canoe and using a […]
When digesting a season like the Utah Jazz are beginning to embark upon, it’s important to take the moments bite by bite, rather than in one giant mouthful. Utah will not win many games this year — that’s a given, and a point that’s been beaten to death at this point — and the remedy […]
Allen Iverson made an appearance on the Stephen A. Smith show last month, and Smith asked the former Philadelphia 76ers superstar which current NBA players he would’ve played with if he could. After naming Shaquille O’Neal, Joel Embiid, and Nikola Jokic, Iverson made a pick that shocked Smith, but will delight Dallas Mavericks fans. “Luka,” […]