Race Against Time
The NBA’s overlong moratorium on signings and trades has been lifted. That means all those swaps and new deals we were talking about over the past week-and-a-half can be approved by the league office....
View ArticleInside Basketball
On Sunday afternoon, Dan Gilbert went to Miami. Or rather, his plane did. Sound and fury followed. An AP reporter staked out a runway. Zydrunas Ilgauskas was, then was not (because he wasn’t on the...
View ArticleThe Virtue of The Decision
Think about the first week of the most bizarre free agency period in recent NBA history. Think about how long it’s dragged out, how we’re seven days into what is normally a feeding frenzy with only a...
View ArticleThe Clock Is Ticking
With the clock moving quickly and Pat Riley’s options starting to dwindle, there’s an increasing possibility of LeBron James exploring ways to take his talents elsewhere, even back to Cleveland. LeBron...
View ArticleHot Pursuit
Daryl Morey is gambling for a third consecutive summer. On Wednesday, the Houston Rockets sent Omer Asik to New Orleans for what’s likely going to be a mid-round pick in the 2015 draft. This both was...
View ArticleLeBron Opts Out, Miami Wins
LeBron James will be an unrestricted free agent come July 1 and that is mostly good news … for the Heat. Come again? Well, understand that by escaping the final two years on his contract, LeBron gives...
View ArticleThe Unpredictable NBA Offseason
Championships are supposed to provide clarity. They don’t always do this — last year, the Spurs and Heat were about 50-50, with a couple bounces of the ball separating them — but this year’s NBA Finals...
View ArticleThe Mind-Expanding Finals
Any pursuit people care about has various belief systems, one of which you consciously or unconsciously adopt. You are a certain type of lawyer, film critic, hair stylist or comic book enthusiast. You...
View ArticleThe Best Man
What can you say about Kevin Durant, who killed it before he won the MVP trophy and then upstaged himself right after he accepted it on Tuesday? “He deserves it.” That was a quick concession speech by...
View ArticleAll By Himself
Carmelo Anthony is profane. He strong-armed his way to the Garden. He plays a brazen style of hero ball. He’s a cowardly provocateur. He’s got a big painting of himself in his living room. When Jeremy...
View ArticleThe Duncan Strategy
Dwyane Wade missed Miami’s 102-91 victory over the Knicks on Sunday afternoon with a hamstring injury that has sidelined him for the past six games. The Heat didn’t need him, because LeBron scored 38...
View ArticleRunning Out Of Time
When you have $48.5 million invested in Kobe Bryant’s declining years, why gamble that on what amounts to a declining season? It wouldn’t make any sense, and so, in the least surprising news of the...
View ArticleThe Superstar Wage
The NBA’s best players are underpaid. By how much depends on what sort of metrics you’re using. Kurt Badenhausen at Forbes estimated in February of last year that LeBron James would make between $40...
View ArticleLeBron, Here and Now
A year shy of 30, LeBron James is evidently as comfortable as he has ever been. Some of this is no doubt the effect of a shift in his public persona. You’ll notice, if you cull through Youtube, that...
View ArticleA Toxic Situation
The Cavaliers should stop wondering if they’re going to get LeBron James this summer and start worrying about Kyrie Irving leaving two summers from now. Such is the chaotic life in Cleveland, where the...
View ArticleLeBron’s Next Decision
In case you haven’t heard the news, LeBron James is capable of joining the Clippers in the offseason, and the Clippers would be interested in acquiring the best player in the league if he wants to...
View ArticleStar Turn
Being a professional athlete requires access to a kind of positive thinking that’s hard for regular folk to fathom. It takes, not just healthy self-belief, but something like religious fervor to...
View ArticleLeBron’s Homecoming
You can argue against the validity of the feeling, but that doesn’t deny its existence: A lot of Cavs fans still ache over LeBron James’ departure. Everyone’s personal emotional agitation is different....
View ArticleThe NBA’s Must-See TV
It speaks to the power of Kobe Bryant, or maybe the sympathy of the schedule-makers, that the Lakers are still considered Christmas Day-worthy here in these uncertain times for the tinsel franchise....
View ArticleThe Lakers’ Backup Plan
They’re a storied franchise, and a proud one too, with 16 championships and four statues standing outside of the arena. The Lakers aren’t too familiar with failure, and when it happens, they recover...
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