High hopes. That’s what we’ve got right now. If you missed Thursday evening’s pressers with the league and players, there was a theme: Friday is important. Both David Stern and Billy Hunter signaled towards
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Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images I wrote about the red herring that is competitive balance last week. And then Tom Haberstroh came along and did it way, way better. Thanks to the rookie scale that keeps
Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images The NBA wants you to believe something. We’re fighting for the little man. We’re sticking up for the small market team that can’t fend for itself. That’s what Deputy Commissioner Adam
Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images If you had trouble buying the tickets you wanted Monday to the Kevin Durant-Blake Griffin charity basketball game, you weren’t the only one. Ticketmaster issues — surprise! — made ticket sales
Ronald Martinez/NBAE/Getty Images Sixth overall. Kevin Durant, according to 91 voters for ESPN.com, is the sixth overall best player in the NBA. Not bad. I was one of the 91 that voted on a
Ronald Martinez/NBAE/Getty Images In ESPN.com’s massive player ranking project, Russell Westbrook has been put 15th among all active NBA players. That’s pretty darn good. Especially considering he only completed his third season and is
David Stern was on WFAN with Mike Francesca this afternoon and he laid it on heavy, smearing Billy Hunter, talking doom and gloom and even awkwardly saying “I despair” when asked if there was
Headlines
- Serge Ibaka named first team All-Defense
- Report: KD reaches settlement in ‘Durantula’ lawsuit
- Derek Fisher fined $5,000 for flopping
- Durant finishes runner-up to LeBron for MVP
- Thunder-Grizzlies second round schedule released
- Report: LeBron to be named 2012-13 MVP
- Kevin Durant on Royce White: ‘Who is that?’
Just like that, labor negotiations fall apart again
Welp, I was wrong about that. I should’ve known that these two sides were too stubborn to actually get a deal done. Can’t believe I fell for it. (Actually, I can, because I’m dying