Category: Sport

This is the potential that made LaMelo Ball the No. 3 pick in the draft. He looked more comfortable than we have seen all season, scoring 22 points on 7-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-5 from three, plus he had eight rebounds and five assists in Dallas Wednesday night. Ball scored more points in this game than […]

Mavericks forward James Johnson holds mythical status within the NBA for his black belt in karate, 20-0 kickboxing record and extensive MMA experience. Cody Martin and Caleb Martin still wanted a piece of him. Late in the Hornets’ rout of the Mavericks yesterday, Johnson cleared out Cody with an unnecessarily strong shoulder/push. When Cody confronted […]

James Harden asking the Rockets to trade him has obviously generated massive attention. But NBA trade requests are far more common than many people realize. Start at the end of the bench. Many deep reserves believe they’d have a bigger role on another team. But don’t stop there. Plenty of players wind up in a […]

T.J. Warren‘s scoring binge made him one of the bubble’s biggest stars. Can the Pacers forward sustain that production over a larger sample? Unfortunately, it’s tough to tell because Warren has been hobbled by plantar fasciitis and now a stress fracture. Pacers release: The Indiana Pacers announced Thursday that T.J. Warren will undergo surgery to […]

After Gregg Popovich was ejected Wednesday night, Becky Hammon became the first woman to be an active head coach in an NBA game. It was a historic moment noticed outside NBA circles. Inside NBA circles it was noticed as well, including inside the Spurs locker room (quotes via Dave McMenamin of ESPN). DeMar DeRozan: “Becky […]

With 25.6 seconds left in the game Tuesday night and the Raptors down five to the 76ers, Pascal Siakam intentionally fouled Tobias Harris to stop the clock. That was a frustrated Siakam’s sixth foul of the night — he had picked up five fouls in seven minutes of the fourth quarter — and he was […]

Otto Porter scored 28 points, Zach LaVine added 22 and the Chicago Bulls, playing without four players who were in the NBA health and safety protocol, beat the winless Washington Wizards 133-130 on Thursday. The Bulls played without Lauri Markkanen, their second-leading scorer and top rebounder, as well as forward Chandler Hutchison and guards Ryan […]