Sheridan’s MVP Rankings: Dec. 4 Edition — Paul George Back at No. 1
There are moments in life when we become one with our sofa. We get comfortable, we sink deeper and deeper into the plush fabric, we cover ourself with a blanket or two and we try to set the record for popcorn consumption. (I worked in a cinema when I was 16, and my popcorn skills […]- Fantasy Spin: Thursday, Decemeber 5, 2013
- SH Blog: Kidd says he won’t miss Lawrence, Kobe not ruled out for Sunday
- Tweet of the Night: Steve Kerr praises Portland, takes jab at status of both New York teams
- 10 Fast Facts from Last Night’s Games — Korver Ties NBA Record, Drummond Dominates Again, Spurs-Timberwolves Postponed
- Tweet of the Day: Antoine Walker Amazed By NBA Standings
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- Sprung: Amid coaching chaos, Nets only imagine what could have been with Shaw
- SH Blog: Inside the Knicks’ clubhouse turmoil; Kidd re-assigns top assistant Frank
- Most Improved Rankings — Eric Bledsoe reclaims top spot
- Sprung: Anatomy of the New York Knicks’ Losing Streak
- Bernucca: Is LeBron Better than Jordan? Read This Before Answering
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- SH Blog: Melo misses J-Kidd; Kobe to return Friday vs. Kings?
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Fantasy Spin: Thursday, Decemeber 5, 2013
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One of the great things about fantasy basketball is that you don’t have to worry about the weather. in baseball, rainout can wreak havoc on your lineups; in football, bad weather can limit scoring. But in basketball, the weather is not a factor; we don’t have to worry about games being cancelled… whoops. That rarest of events, an NBA game cancelled right as it was scheduled to start, threw a wrench into the works. Anyone who had Spurs or Timberwolves in their lineups was dealt a heavy blow in daily fantasy leagues. The other games went off without issue. The highlight of the night was the Blazers claiming “best team in basketball” rights for the moment with a victory over the undoubtedly tired Thunder. Thursday night sees a light schedule of three games. Here is today’s Fantasy Spin.
SH Blog: Kidd says he won’t miss Lawrence, Kobe not ruled out for Sunday
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STORY OF THE DAY:
When Jason Kidd demoted Lawrence Frank from the assistant coach position, it was assumed that there was a rift between them. While that’s all but true, it appears there was tension between the two the moment Frank agreed to join the team. Tim Bontemps and Fred Kerber of New York Post detailed what went wrong from the jump:
One league source told The Post the Kidd-Lawrence union began on rocky footing. After Kidd’s very public courtship of Frank, when the former head coach called to accept the job, he began laying out plans for the team. Frank suggested film sessions immediately.
“I think Jason was like, ‘Whoa, slow down,’ ” the source said. “He had other things to do on summer weekends.”
Multiple reports said Frank took issue with the fact he — as the most experienced assistant on the staff and the only one with NBA head coaching experience — wasn’t tapped to coach the Nets in the opening two games of the season while Kidd served a two-game suspension for pleading guilty to driving while impaired during the summer of 2012.
Tweet of the Night: Steve Kerr praises Portland, takes jab at status of both New York teams
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Believe it or not, a quarter of the NBA season has already come and gone. What have we learned so far through the first 20 games of the season?
Time flies, the Portland Trail Blazers are for real, critical injuries can derail any team, and the Eastern Conference may never have been worse.
After another impressive 111-104 home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, the Blazers are a conference-best 16-3 – something no expert or fortune teller could have predicted coming into the season. They are easily one of the biggest surprises of the season, but it’s also worth noting that their schedule has been awfully friendly as well. Through their first 10 road games, only two of them – Golden State Warriors and Denver Nuggets – currently have a winning record. It’s something to keep in mind, as tough teams at home await their chance to see what these Blazers can do against better competition on the road. At home, they have had some impressive wins against Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls.
10 Fast Facts from Last Night’s Games — Korver Ties NBA Record, Drummond Dominates Again, Spurs-Timberwolves Postponed
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The 2013-14 NBA regular season is just over one month in, and the record books are already being re-written. Wednesday, December 4, 2013 was a continuation of that, as a number of different players improved upon their long-term reputations with differing feats of remarkable consistency.
Here’s everything you need to know about what transpired on December 4.
Tweet of the Day: Antoine Walker Amazed By NBA Standings
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Parity \ˈper-ə-tē\ — the quality or state of being equal or equivalent.
Parity is what most professional sports leagues strive for. Parity, or competitive balance in the case of sports, is good for business. It means games are competitive. It gives fans—of all teams—hope and reason to fill arena seats.
Unfortunately for the National Basketball Association, parity seems non-existent nearly 20 games into the 2013-14 season.
Former Boston Celtics forward Antoine Walker took notice of the disparity between the NBA conferences.
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Our friends over at SportsBlog.com have started quite the contest.
Naturally, the first thing you’ll want to know about is the prize — an all-expenses paid trip to New Orleans for All-Star Weekend, along with access to all events sponsored by the National Basketball Retired Players Association.
Sheridan’s MVP Rankings: Dec. 4 Edition — Paul George Back at No. 1
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This caption doesn’t exactly fit what the author is writing, but it adequately shows your typical Knicks fan. Pacers fans act oppositely.
There are moments in life when we become one with our sofa.
We get comfortable, we sink deeper and deeper into the plush fabric, we cover ourself with a blanket or two and we try to set the record for popcorn consumption. (I worked in a cinema when I was 16, and my popcorn skills are second to none. Secret: Lots of oil, and add salt before and after the kernels pop. For those in need, flush with Lipitor.)
Monday night was one such night as the Pelicans and Bulls went to three overtimes, after which I watched one of the NBA’s great rarities of the 2013-14 season — the Indiana Pacers losing a game.
This happened in Portland, where great things are happening, and it will continue throughout this week as the barnstorming Pacers (who had the league’s easiest schedule in November) have their success put to the test against four of the West’s toughest teams.
Fantasy Spin: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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The Raptors had more than a 20-point lead early in the fourth quarter and somehow managed to lose the game by nine points to the Golden State Warriors. The Thunder were all set to blow the Kings out, but Isaiah Thomas/SAC ignited a comeback and Oklahoma had to bring in the regulars to hold on to a 97-95 win. Orlando and Philadelphia battled into a second overtime before the Sixers emerged with a 126-125 victory. The stat lines for Glen Davis/ORL, Arron Afflalo/ORL, Victor Oladipo/ORL, Thaddeus Young/PHI and Michael Carter-Williams/PHI were boosted by the extra minutes played. When it was announced that Dwayne Wade/MIA would sit out, you knew the Heat were in for a tough battle. The Pistons held on to break the Heat’s 10-game winning streak. We had eight games on the card last night and we have eight more today. Here is today’s Fantasy Spin.
Sprung: Amid coaching chaos, Nets only imagine what could have been with Shaw
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Jason Kidd and Brian Shaw were the two finalists for the Brooklyn Nets coaching position during the summer.
While Kidd won out and was hired by the Nets, Shaw ended up getting his first head job in Denver with the Nuggets. So far, it sure seems like Shaw got the better end of that deal.
While Brooklyn languishes near the bottom of the Eastern Conference, Denver won its seventh straight game Tuesday, efficiently eviscerating the Nets, 111-87, on a night where turmoil and turbulence raged in the home locker room.
Before the game, Kidd announced that top assistant Lawrence Frank, who was reportedly at odds with Kidd, was demoted and reassigned to “doing daily reports.”
10 Fast Facts from Last Night’s Games — Carter-Williams and Oladipo Make NBA History in Epic Double-Overtime Game
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This one was all about the 2013 NBA draft.
Who said the 2013 NBA draft class wasn’t special?
Well, one of our guys did, but what does he know?
Tuesday, December 3 was highlighted by a number of different games that will hold a special place in league history. From a double-overtime clash that featured an NBA first to an improbable 27-point comeback, there were feats that simply cannot go unnoticed.
Here’s everything that you need to know about what transpired.
Tweet of the Night: Harrison Barnes reacts to Warriors’ comeback against the Raptors
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The Golden State Warriors (11-8) were back home at Oracle Arena after a four-game road trip, and appeared to be in for a relatively easy win against the lowly Toronto Raptors (6-11) on Tuesday.
Perhaps feeling a bit complacent, they came out flat and watched the Raptors take a surprising 36-19 lead after the first quarter. Stephen Curry had just three points after the first half, and things only got worse in the third quarter when the Warriors’ deficit ballooned to 27 points. DeMar DeRozan was simply unstoppable at times and scored a team-high 26 points. The Warriors kept fighting, though, and managed to cut the deficit to 18 points at the end of the third. From there, they took complete control of the game.
SH Blog: Inside the Knicks’ clubhouse turmoil; Kidd re-assigns top assistant Frank
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The Knicks are dominating the headlines like few 14th-place teams could.
Most Improved Rankings — Eric Bledsoe reclaims top spot
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Finding a Most Improved Player in the NBA this year is like finding a reasonable, stand-up politician in Congress.
It’s so tough to do, it’s almost sickening.
With so many teams so tremendously un-improved, there are precious few bright spots in a vast wasteland of awfulness.
Just take a look at the Eastern Conference standings. Actually….don’t do that. You can’t un-see the Eastern Conference standings. This, after-all, is a family-friendly website.
As we enter Tuesday night’s games, 12 teams in the East have losing records, which means that the only adjective that can accurately describe the conference is “crap-tastic.” Nearly everyone is worse off than they were last season.
Milwaukee is 3-13 after reaching the playoffs last year and splurging on O.J. Mayo. Cleveland is 5-12 despite bringing in Andrew Bynum and seemingly having all of the pieces to make a playoff push.
Brooklyn has tripped up (figuratively and literally) after the Pierce and Garnett trade, and the Nets have looked so bad that you could argue Billy King out-tanked Danny Ainge in a shrewd “Riggin’ for Wiggins” move — except for the fact that Brooklyn has to send its pick to Atlanta or Boston.
The Raptors, Hawks, Bobcats and Pistons all stink—yet somehow they’re all in position to make the playoffs.
And don’t even get me started on the Knicks.
Sure, the Western Conference has had its share of positive surprises. Who could have predicted Portland’s 15-3 start, or Phoenix’s Phoenix-like rise to mediocrity?
But so far this NBA season, crap is king.
And we didn’t even mention the Kings.
On to the rankings.
Fantasy Spin: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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One game I tipped to be closely fought ended up being a blowout: the Wizards outplayed the Magic from start to finish. Early in the fourth quarter, with the game not yet out of reach, Orlando threw in the towel and rested their starters in anticipation of today's matchup in Philadelphia. The Pelicans played their hearts out without Anthony Davis/NOP. They beat the Bulls on the road in triple overtime, thanks to a winning bucket by Jrue Holiday/NOP on a brilliantly designed play, and Ryan Anderson's/NOP consistent sharpshooting. The Pacers could not hold off the Trail Blazers, while the Rockets (without Chandler Parsons/HOU) fell to the Jazz. Here is today's Fantasy Spin.
Sprung: Anatomy of the New York Knicks’ Losing Streak
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The Knicks went the entire month of November without a home win and started December the same way. New York lost its ninth straight game and seventh in a row at Madison Square Garden in a tough 103-99 setback to New Orleans on Sunday night.
For a team that was supposed to be at least on the fringe of contention in the Eastern Conference, it’s almost unfathomable that the Knicks are 3-13. Coach Mike Woodson told reporters before the game that the team lacked identity and mentioned how important the three-ball was in today’s NBA.
So the Knicks took 35 3-pointers against the Pelicans. Cause and effect? Perhaps, but the team got way too three-happy in the fourth quarter and ended up missing 10 of its last 12 shots from the arc.
SH Blog: Melo has no idea how to fix the Knicks, Wade unsure of what approach to take with current contract
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Things couldn’t have gone much uglier for the New York Knicks in the first month of the season.
They lost defensive anchor Tyson Chandler to a leg injury, J.R. Smith has been awful since coming back from a 5-game suspension, Amare Stoudemire has been a shell of himself while playing limited minutes, Iman Shumpert’s name in trade rumors has been a distraction, and Andrea Bargnani is what most of us expected him to be – a scoring forward who can’t rebound or play team defense.
The end result? Tied for the second-worst record in the league at 3-13. The Knicks are officially a mess.
STORY OF THE DAY:
After another deflating loss to the New Orleans Pelicans at home, Carmelo Anthony believes his team lacks a winning mentality, from Ian Begley of ESPN New York:
“I think we’re playing to lose rather than playing to win right now,” Anthony said after the Knicks’ 103-99 loss to New Orleans on Sunday. “When you lose games the way we’ve been losing them at home, on the road, you start thinking a lot. You start playing a little tense. You start playing on your heels.”
“We just can’t seem to get it together,” Anthony said after scoring 23 points and getting 10 rebounds. “We can’t seem to figure it out.”
“I don’t know what we have to do as far as coming together as a group,” Anthony said. “I don’t know if we’ve got to sit here for hours and talk and get it all out, but we’ve got to do something.”
