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Now that Halloween is upon us, and the Blazers embark on their first Emirates NBA Cup tournament game of the young 2025-26 season, let’s take a moment to have some fun with a little mashup of the two. If the Blazers were movie monsters, who would they be? Here are my answers. Share yours in the […]
The preseason seems like a long time ago now, doesn’t it? Except that we’re only just over a week into the NBA season. Things didn’t go as well as Celtics fans might have hoped, with the team dropping their first 3 games before winning the next two. So for this week’s survey, I figured I’d […]
Earlier this week we ran a poll asking Portland Trail Blazers fans if they thought Interim Head Coach Tiago Splitter brought their club a better chance to win than suspended former coach Chauncy Billups did. Readers and subscribers responded nationally and, at the end of the day, a whopping 89% of respondents thought that Splitter […]
Most U.S. professional sports are designed for teams to lose on purpose during bridge years in order to get a better chance at a young prospect. It’s more worrisome for the NBA — a league that’s under scrutiny for it’s lack of integrity. That’s not mentioning how the new CBA essentially forces teams to build […]
The Premier League returns this weekend, with the standout fixture once again the London derby between Chelsea and Spurs, a clash that always promises high-intensity, attacking football. Meanwhile, all eyes will be on Liverpool, eager to bounce back from consecutive defeats and prove they still have what it takes to defend their Premier League crown. […]
The Denver Nuggets are rolling. After dropping their opening night game against the Golden State Warriors, the Nuggets have now… The post Preview: the Denver Nuggets, looking for their fourth win in a row, face the Portland Trail Blazers appeared first on Denver Stiffs .
With the season well underway it’s time for our continuous temperature check. While we know game-in and game-out the feelings of how the Mavericks look and feel, this is our chance to zoom out. To scan the larger landscape and see where Dallas rises or falls among the league as a whole. The NBA Power […]
Los Angeles Lakers’ big man Maxi Kleber has been sidelined for the regular season with an oblique strain and is set to be re-evaluated within the next week. The setback is the third in a string of injuries for the German international, who missed over three months last season with a foot fracture and then […]
The Houston Rockets’ most glaring need thus far has been at the guard spot. They’ve struggled mightily to bring the ball up the court. They also don’t really have anyone who can run pick-and-roll action. Well, they do, but he’s out for the foreseeable future in Fred VanVleet. On nights against teams like the Brooklyn […]
The Knicks will play the on-pace-for-82-wins Bulls in Chicago to kick off their NBA Cup run toward the first mini-title in franchise history this evening. New York will host the same Unstoppabulls (we’ll see about that after tonight) on Sunday in the second leg of a home-and-home affair versus the Windy City Boys. Here’s the […]
The Nuggets come into Portland on a three game heater of a winning streak. Over the offseason, the team added Cam Johnson, Bruce Brown, Tim Hardaway Jr., and Jonas Valanciunas to a team that took the 2025 Champions Oklahoma City Thunder to a game seven in the second round of last year’s playoffs. This newly […]
Hey, all. Come on in. Kick your feet up and get comfortable. I’m glad you could make it. It’s time for the first edition of a recurring series where I’ll break down what I’m seeing on Celtics film. That can range from new tactics to performances I enjoyed to, well, anything I want to include. […]
The Quentin Grimes situation certainly had the makings of getting ugly this past summer. Negotiations between Grimes and the Sixers didn’t seem to get very close, although that doesn’t mean either side was necessarily at fault. Grimes was reportedly asking for approximately $25 million per season in a multi-year deal on the restricted free agent […]
The San Jose Sharks picked up right where the team left off a few nights ago against the Los Angeles Kings, jumping on the New Jersey Devils early and often. The result was a 5-2 regulation win; the Sharks’ first regulation win of the season. The Sharks attacked the Devils with speed, triggering a quick strike from William Eklund that beat Jake Allen five-hole in the first minute of last night’s game. EKY ON THE BREAKAWAY 🚨 pic.twitter.com/OcIv1zxslG — Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSh...
When Ziaire Williams fell on his back in the Brooklyn Nets loss to the San Antonio Spurs, it looked bad. He did not return and post-game, Jordi Fernandez noted that the fall was a rough one and indeed, the 24-year-old didn’t play in the next two games vs. the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks, out […]
A few days after an awkward but undeniably emotional suite encounter on Opening Night, the Dallas Mavericks announced that they would retire Mark Aguirre’s jersey this January. Number 24 is finally going to the rafters. Back in June, I wrote a piece titled Symmetry in the Rafters which made the quiet case for why this […]
The severely shorthanded Lakers team that went 1-5 in the preseason cautiously stepped its way into the regular season only to become just as banged up, but have somehow found much different results by going 3-2 in their first five contests. Prepared to be down LeBron James, the team has already also had Luka Dončić, […]
Earl Weaver died the year that I turned 25. That he died aboard a Caribbean cruise was a source of some amusement for those who’d known him. Though I can no longer find the quote, I recall at least one former player somberly jesting that it was the relaxation that killed the man so uniformly […]
It was a spooky night at Fiserv Forum, with Giannis Antetokounmpo being declared out 45 minutes before tip-off for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Golden State Warriors. Despite that scare, the Bucks got the treat of their fourth win of the season by a score of 120-110, thanks to a career day from Ryan Rollins. […]
The Raptors continue their road trip, heading north from Texas to Ohio, where they’ll get their first look at this season’s Cleveland Cavaliers squad. The two teams will kick off the third annual NBA Cup in the Rocket Arena, competing for first blood in the tournament, and the first steps to the pile of cash […]
Xabi Alonso spoke to the media ahead of Real Madrid’s match against Valencia on Saturday. He was asked about the whole Vinicius Jr situation, which, to Alonso, was resolved. He said: “We had a meeting with everyone on Wednesday, and Vinicius was impeccable. He spoke sincerely, from the heart, and was very good. For me, […]
After a pretty pitiful showing on the national stage in Boston, the Cleveland Cavaliers will look to right the ship as they face the Toronto Raptors in the first Group Play matchup for the NBA Cup. Who: Cleveland Cavaliers (3-2) vs Toronto Raptors (1-4) Where: Rocket Arena – Cleveland, OH When: Friday October 31 at 7:30pm […]
Barcelona lost Pedri to injury this week as Hansi Flick’s side saw another key player sidelined for several weeks. According to Diario AS, Pedri’s injury has left Barcelona “stunned and dismayed” and has set off “alarm bells” at the club as their ongoing injury crisis continues. The report adds that “the anger at the club […]
It wasn’t just another game. This was the second game of the season for both the Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakers, but the first night of NBA on Prime Video. It was a prime time matchup on opening weekend featuring a 2025 NBA playoff rematch. The Los Angeles faithful were out in full force, […]
The San Antonio Spurs denied the Miami Heat a fourth-quarter comeback and are now 5-0 for the first time in franchise history. Anyone who heard Victor Wembanyama at the press conference after the Toronto Raptors win, probably knew deep down that he would deliver, but it took 12 lead changes and four ties to get […]