LB is doing a nice job in Charlotte.

Pity their contract situation is pretty fucked.

I've been surprised that Diaw has been as effective as he has without Nash.

It was D'Antoni's system that made him(and the other Suns players) successful, not Nash.

He's without D'Antoni' system and still doing quite well. :)

I just remember him in Atlanta... timid as hell, not much to speak of.

The busy day for Sparty continues with Eric Snow's retirement.

I too am surprised by Diaw's play - maybe LB and Jordan kicked his ass?

The guy has a great all-round game and could be a fucking amazing complimentary player if he was on a better team.

But the dude is more expensive than Hilary Duff's panties on e-bay.

Shaq to the Mavs?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Suicide-lines-Does-Shaq-want-to-be-a-Maverick-?urn=nba,153607

Might convinve Kidd to stay cheap. Cuban would have some heavy taxes next year but might have a legit shot to make a title run provided people can stay healthy

Kidd, Terry, Howard, Dirk, Shaq

5 years ago, that's a scary lineup.

Apparently, Shaun Livingston signed a longterm deal with the Thunder. Low Risk high reward move. The Thunder have a really young core that could do some damage, esp if they land Blake Griffin.

I love when Mutombo goes third person.


Dikembe Mutumbo, 42 years old and one of the NBA's all-time good guys, started for the Rockets tonight with Yao Ming out. Mutumbo finished with 15 rebounds, 10 points and four blocks -- all of which were followed by his signature finger-wave to the crowd.

One of the blocks came against Anthony Randolph to start the second half, and the 19-year-old rookie was NOT happy that his dunk was rejected. He got the ball back, went right at Mutumbo ... got whistled for an offensive foul ... and pulled by Nellie.

My old colleague, Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, passed along this fantastic quote from Mutumbo:

"We need NBA Classics to show more of the Mutombo games so some of the youngest guys can learn. Everybody is trying me. I don't know why. That young boy tried so hard. ... He kept telling me, 'I'm going to get you before the day's over.' It's too bad. He tried, but he didn't get a chance to dunk on Dikembe Mutombo. He's not going to be able tell his grandkids, 'I got Dikembe with one.'"

You can't teach height, but you -can- teach righteous ego. :)

Deke must love it that these young kids today are fucking hopeless.

I remember before a playoff series Mutombo actually claimed Jordan had never dunked on him. What do you think happened? Jordan got him.

Chris Paul is just amazing -- 31-17-9 against Dallas today, made Kidd his bitch.

And now is the time for all good green teams to get outscored badly early in the game, en route to a devastating loss at the hands of #1.

Ben Wallace might be done for the season (incl playoffs).

Anybody hear anything on Turkeyglue yet?

Boston Celtics' Ray Allen suspended for elbowing Anderson Varejao
Celtics guard Ray Allen was suspended one game without pay for elbowing Cavaliers forward Anderson Varejao in the groin on Sunday, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson announced on Tuesday.

by ESPN.com news services

I bet if he wanted to, Allen could get enough $ from NBA fans around the league to cover his lost pay for this.

There were only three games last night and it's looking like all three of them will be replayed as first round matchups.

Heat|Hawks, Sixers|Celtics, Jazz|Lakers

Glad we blew our chance at the 6 or 7 seed:

Garnett could miss playoffs (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4073024)

Wow.

It Happened.

It Happened really is great.

Anyone wonder if Garnett's body has been denying injuries his entire career because his will to win was so strong and now that he has won his body is think "bout fucking time" and giving out on him?

Yeah, me neither.

Anyone wonder if Garnett's body has been denying injuries his entire career because his will to win was so strong and now that he has won his body is think "bout fucking time" and giving out on him?

Yeah, me neither.

Nope, I haven't wondered that.

But I'm sure Bill Simmons will be writing his next 789287 word Celtics article on just that.

Garnett might miss playoffs:
Danny Ainge has a heart attack.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4075078

Shaq thinks he's getting traded to the Hornets for Chandler this summer.

That worked for the Suns ... wait.

If this is true, there's gotta be a 3rd party involved.
I can't believe the Suns take on Chandler's salary.

We're the 3rd team and we get ...

Joe Smith is a rapper?

"Joe Beast"?

Cavaliers' Brown honored as NBA coach of year (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4083787)

I threw up a lil when I saw that. His team is winning, but it has very little to do with him, imo.

Yeah you're going to tell me that somehow, in his fourth year (or whatever year it is), he went from being a below average coach to somehow figuring out how to be the best coach in the NBA?

You don't think it has something to do with the signing of another high-powered scorer and LeBron stepping up his game to the next level?




Let's give Wally the Sixth-Man Award while we're at it. I'm sure he's the reason they won 20-something more games than last year.

I never thought he was below average. I think he's smart enough to know that the only thing he has to coach is defense when he has Lebron. Which is good for him because I don't think he can coach offense. Unfortunately, that puts him right about average in the league, maybe a little higher. I think I could find 15 coaches I would rather not have over him.

His offensive coaching philosophy can be summed up in Mola's clipboard caption with Popp..."Pass to Tim" Brown's "Pass to LBJ"

Really, is that such a bad strategy to have?

I seem to recall "pass to Bird or Magic" as a really effective strategy for a couple teams in the 80s.

"Let Zeke decide" worked pretty well for Chuck.

I don't think we can compare the Celtics of the 80s and the Lakers of the 80s to the Cavs of 2009. I hate LeBron with a passion, but he is single handedly taking that team to the Finals this year. It requires no coaching expertise to give the ball to LeBron, and when he has four guys on him, give it to Mo. That isnt' exactly a well thought out strategy.

I can name at least five other coaches who definitely deserved the award over him.

Oh, he's not the best coach in the league, but then the COY seldom is.

I don't think we can compare the Celtics of the 80s and the Lakers of the 80s to the Cavs of 2009. I hate LeBron with a passion, but he is single handedly taking that team to the Finals this year. It requires no coaching expertise to give the ball to LeBron, and when he has four guys on him, give it to Mo. That isnt' exactly a well thought out strategy.

I can name at least five other coaches who definitely deserved the award over him.

I agree. Last time I checked the Cavs don't have Worthy, Kareem, Parish, Ainge or McHale on their team.

The Cavs are more like MJ's Bulls (more complementary players than anything).

Yeah, I like it when they give COY to the guy that does more with less.

That's big reason why, IMO, that a lot of the COY winners end up getting fired soon thereafter, it's such a fine line.

Adelman and SVG cam in 2nd and 3rd in the voting.

I liked the job that guys like Woodson, McMillan, DiLeo, DelNegro (and how about George freaking Karl) did than those three.

Howard named defensive player of year (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AiDmPwc5up3gTCvn5GBQhzI5nYcB?slug=ap-defensiveplayerofyear&prov=ap&type=lgns)

I fuckin hate the NBA right now. We suck, Brown COTY, Howard DPOTY, Cleveland has a shot to win it all, we suck, the 2nd best team in the East is Boston, and on and on and on.

I'm frickin pulling for the Bulls right now for Chrissake. WTF is going on?

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/04/21/dpoy.20090421/index.html

Grant Hill and Hedo got a DPOY vote? Turiaf got two?

Hedo helped our defense on that Tayshaun block.

Flip officially in DC or something

The fact that Hedo got a vote is a clear indication that this is not the NBA your Dad watched, it's not the NBA you grew up watching and it's not the NBA we watched 3 years ago.

It's fucking ballet!

How the flying fuck can that no D playing pussy get a vote? What a fucking joke. That guy has never EVER fucking played D EVER!

Fuck this league.

The trend is OFFENSE?

Do what we did the last time Stern tried this shit - we smacked the fuck out of people and hammered people into the ground. The whole league flipped. D became the way to play - running and gunning was for shitty Lotto teams and rookie punks that couldn't mess with Mahorn, Lamb, Rodman, Spider and Budda.

You remember that Joe? Weren't you there? Time to step the fuck up and make this team tough again. Pussy motherfuckers and their jumpshots. We need some hardcore beasts that don't just play D - they wanna smash fuckers and they ENJOY IT!!!!!

Like if Max does smash Lebron he's gotta stand over Lebron's prone body and talk the biggest bunch of trash any bench player has ever fucking spewed at "King James" (may God strike you down you disrespectful fuck).

When the golden boy gets up in Max's chest the Mad Man needs to push that cunt in the face and raise his big fucking fist. Max should shout "Come on you punk ass pussy bitch. I'll fucking kill you live on Global Television. Your boys can witness your fucking funeral, man"

Let's see how Lebron would respond to that shit. Go get Lil Mo - we'll get Kwame. Kwame can eat that fucker. Get Back, it's The Fat Kwame Brown. Go get Ben? You really think that old man is gonna fucking do anything in The Palace - with Sheed in the building?

Shit, Ben wouldn't even throw a towel this time.

Fuck this league, fuck the Cavs.

Let's Go Portland and Chicago? WTF

Fuck them cunts too

Time for Joe to do his fucking job and get some fucking hardcases in here to take ownership of this team and do what needs to be done. You might not like it but you all KNOW it needs to happen.

Report: Bulls' Rose named NBA's top rookie (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4088433)

^ I agree wit dat

Breaking News: Apparently the Pistons made the playoffs. No word as to if they have decided actually play in any of the playoff games.

They are fashionably late

Bucher was on ESPNNEWS this afternoon and he said that Derrick Rose is the best NBA rookie since Magic Johnson. If that isn't bold enough for ya, he said if he had to choose one PG right now, he'd take Rose over CP3.

afaict, he's always composed. He'll be not-so-fun to watch as a Piston fan in the coming years, iykwim.

So apparently Jayson Williams had a little bit of the suicidy thing going on and got tasered.