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NBA Predictions: Carmelo Anthony’s New Team & 20 Other Bold Predictions for 2011
December 27th, 2010
As we get ready to jump into 2011, the NBA sits about six months away from a potential doomsday scenario, also known as a lockout. In other words, enjoy the NBA action while you can, folks. While the NBA world recovers from the Miami Heat plastering the Los Angeles Lakers ...
NBA Award Watch: Chris Paul, Dwight Howard and 10 Early-Season MVP Favorites
November 18th, 2010
Three weeks into the NBA season, we’ve already got a clear-cut MVP favorite in Chris Paul. That much is clear. Paul wasted no time this year reminding everyone that all the talk about Deron Williams usurping him as best PG in the NBA during last year’s playoffs may have been just ...
NBA Power Rankings: Kevin Love and the 10 Best Rebounders in the League
November 14th, 2010
On Friday night, Kevin Love became the first NBA player in 28 years to score 30-plus points and gather 30-plus rebounds in the same game, with his 31-point, 31-rebound effort against the New York Knicks. The last player to come up with a 30-30 night? Moses Malone, all the ...
Jerry Stackhouse On His Way To Miami Heat?: Why Miami Would Be Wise To Sign Him
October 22nd, 2010
The Miami Heat worked out guard Jerry Stackhouse on Thursday, as they're "looking into adding another veteran," according to ESPN's Chris Broussard.While Stackhouse may be a shell of his former superstar self, the Heat may be onto something here.What Stackhouse can provide is another body to add to a team's depth, ...
NBA Preseason Power Rankings: B/R NBA Featured Columnists Edition
October 21st, 2010
With the 2010-11 NBA season tipping off less than a week from now, we at Bleacher Report gathered together a number of our NBA featured columnists for what will soon become a weekly feature: Featured Columnist Power Rankings. Each writer—we had 11 this week, both team-based and national—submitted a simple ...
NBA Power Rankings: The 10 Best Active NBA Players without a Championship
October 19th, 2010
Kobe Bryant may be able to polish his five NBA championship rings in his spare time, but plenty of NBA superstars still don't have any championship jewelry for their fingers. It's certainly not for lack of effort—guys like LeBron James, Jason Kidd and Dirk Nowitzki have seen the NBA Finals, ...
LeBron James, the NBA’s Jesse Jackson: Why LBJ Was Wrong To Play the Race Card
September 30th, 2010
In an interview that aired on CNN Wednesday night, CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien asked LeBron James if race played a factor in the massive backlash he received this summer after The Decision.
"I think so at times," James said. "It's always, you know, a race factor."
James is doing an awfully good ...
Carmelo Anthony: Should the Philadelphia 76ers Trade for Him Minus an Extension?
September 29th, 2010
With talks of the reported four-team trade to send Carmelo Anthony to the Nets now disintegrating, it appears that the market for Melo is wide open once again. There are few certainties with the Melo situation, but here's one: If he's still reluctant to stay in Denver long-term by the ...
Calling Sherlock Holmes: Why Is David Kahn Always Mocked By Media?
September 23rd, 2010
If you ask some Minnesota Timberwolves fans, one of the greatest mysteries in the NBA is the media's seemingly strange and sick fascination with making fun of the T'Wolves general manager, the one and only David Kahn. ESPN's Bill Simmons may be leading the charge of the Sportswriters-Against-Kahn movement, but many (myself ...
Can Andre Iguodala Translate His Team USA Performance to the Philadelphia 76ers?
September 13th, 2010
Out of all the surprises with Team USA this summer, the sight of Andre Iguodala as Team USA's go-to defensive stopper had to be one of the most shocking to casual Sixers fans. Iggy's been an above-average on-ball stopper for Philly for years, but no one was ready to compare ...