08-09 NBA Season Officially Underway
08-09 NBA Season Offici...
Last night, the 2008-2009 NBA regular season officially kicked off in Boston, as the Celtics hosted LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Just prior to the 8:00 pm ET tip-off, the defending champion Celtics raised the franchise’s 17th banner and collected their long sought...
30 Teams In 30 Days: Cleveland Cavaliers
30 Teams In 30 Days: Cl...
2007-2008 In Review Record: 45-37 Eastern Conference Seed: 4 Playoff Results: Lost to BOS in Eastern Conference Semifinals (4-3) Summer Of 2008 Key Additions: Maurice Williams (via trade), J.J. Hickson (via draft), Tarence Kinsey (via free agency), Lorenzen Wright (via free agency). Key...
Ranking the NBA’s 50 Best Players
Ranking the NBA’s...
With the Olympics coming to a close and training camp for NBA teams about a month away, NBA news is at a crawl. Nearly all of the big free agents have signed months ago, most of the big trades are out of the way and whatever other drama is pretty much settled. At this point teams...
Team-by-Team Most Improved Player Predictions
Team-by-Team Most Impro...
The NBA issues a single Most Improved Player of the Year award following each NBA season, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t clusters growing youngsters around the league. In most cases, each and every roster will have one guy that makes the coaches say “wow,...
USA Wins Gold
USA Wins Gold...
The United States is back on top of the basketball world, as the US men’s basketball team earned the gold medal for the first time since 2000 with a 118-107 victory over Spain early Sunday morning. After an eight-year drought, The Redeem Team has accomplished its goal. Spain...
USA, Spain to Fight For Gold
USA, Spain to Fight For...
Throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympic basketball games, the United States’ outings have, for the most part, had virtually the same story: a competitive first quarter, but the US controls the game from mid-to-late second quarter and on. In today’s Semifinals matchup vs....
Team USA Advances to Semifinals
Team USA Advances to Se...
Team USA Basketball opened up medal round play early Wednesday morning, as they squared off with Quarterfinal matchup Australia. The United States played down to Australia’s game plan throughout the first quarter. After the United States got off to a fast 15-6 start, Australia...
Team USA: Why It’s Lost and Why It’ll Win This Year
Team USA: Why It’...
Finally! After eight years of mediocre play by the American basketball teams, the USA is poised to win a major international competition. The 2008 US men’s senior national team, nicknamed the “Redeem Team,” has created quite a bit of attention around itself for not having...
To the Medal Rounds We Go
To the Medal Rounds We ...
Alright, enough of this funny business. The United States men’s basketball team has had enough of this nonsense; it’s time for medal round play. On Monday morning, they got their wish, as they wrapped up their Group B schedule against Germany with yet another blowout...
Mo Williams to Cleveland In Three-Team Deal
Mo Williams to Clevelan...
The Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Oklahoma City have completed a three-team, six-player deal, headlined by guard Maurice Williams heading to Cleveland. Cleveland, Incoming: Maurice Williams (from MIL) Cleveland, Outgoing: Damon Jones (to MIL), Joe Smith (to OKC) Milwaukee,...

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