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Your team has won six games. You play in the biggest media market in the world. You have contributed to making your team frontpage news due to offcourt issues. What do you do? Blame the fans!!! At least Yao has it right and continues to dump on his team for being soft. Looked that way [...]

Point Guard Problems
Ridiculous, isn’t it? Jason Kidd, arguably one of the 5 best point guards to ever play the game and 1 or 1a playing today, is unhappy. This is made even more remarkable because Kidd has been touted as the guy who doesn’t take any of this “trade me!” guff from his team mates, [...]

Finally…finally….the Knicks sexual harassment case is settled. I didn’t know that the victim is now working in Buffalo. Good luck to her. This comes the day after another event that should make all who follow the NBA look up more excuses to make to non-fans. Getting harder and harder to do that. All this negativity, [...]

Maybe it’s a little early in the season to start a diet of crow, but the Celtics sucked so much spark out of me last night, I got a little bird hungry.
I was of the opinion, when the season started, and after the Raps played Boston so tight in the pre-season, and in the overtime [...]

Wow…says here that Jerry Sloan has been coaching the Jazz longer than most RealGM posters have been alive. Truly amazing. Of course, Billy King will never have that longevity as a GM.
Going back further in time, Oscar Robertson averaged a triple double. Hollinger looks at the possibility that Kidd or James could do it.
I love [...]

So, two starters and a prime bench player are injured. What is a coach supposed to do? If you are Sam Mitchell, you just tighten up your rotation by one and go two players deeper down the bench. When you do that, two of your bench players outscore everybody but one of your opponents and [...]

…and they are not named Bargnani or Delfino. Despite the career highs those two recorded, something else caught my eye.
One of them was TJ Ford and the other was Sam’s pattern of calling time-outs.
This is not the first and it will not be the last time this season when someone wonders when (or if) TJ [...]