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A few short days away from the NBA All-Star Weekend, yet that doesn’t stop teams from changing their look.
The Golden State Warriors made headlines Monday when they unveiled their new alternate uniforms.
Center Festus Ezeli tweeted a picture of rookie Harrison Barnes sporting the new jersey.
The Los Angeles Lakers may be in big trouble again, as they were earlier in the season.
During Tuesday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets, forward Pau Gasol went down after feeling a “pop” in his troublesome foot. The big man was concerned about the situation when it happened, and Wednesday’s MRI confirmed he had reason to worry, from Ken Berger of CBSSports:
The Lakers’ forward is expected to miss at least six weeks with a partial tear of his plantar fascia and may need surgery, a league source told CBSSports.com.One option for Gasol is rehab, which would involve an absence of 6-8 weeks. Surgery would result in Gasol missing 10-12 weeks, but would provide a better chance of a full recovery, the source said. Gasol, who said he felt a “pop” in the foot Tuesday night when he attempted to contest a shot at the rim by the Nets’ Brook Lopez, had an MRI Wednesday in Boston, where the Lakers play the Celtics Thursday night.
Having coached high school basketball for the last two seasons, I have gained a true appreciation for the quality of officiating by NBA referees.
Until this week.
This was a bad week for the league and its referees, as the NBA admitted there were blown calls that changed the outcome of two games.
NBA Players Association executive director Billy Hunter has been placed on indefinite leave, the first step in removing the embattled union chief from his position.
The news comes from both Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports and the NBC Sports Network.
Hunter has been temporarily replaced by union general counsel Ron Klempner.
NEW YORK — The best center in the NBA, statistically at least, is going to the All-Star Game after all.
Brook Lopez was chosen Wednesday by commissioner David Stern to replace the injured Rajon Rondo in the league’s showcase event on Feb. 17. The news came just hours before Lopez and the Nets were set to play the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat at the Barclays Center.
Lopez is averaging 18.6 points and shooting 52.3 percent from the field for Brooklyn, which currently sits in fourth place in the Eastern Conference and is ranked ninth in the latest edition of Mark Heisler’s NBA Power Rankings, which ran on this site earlier today.
He also is averaging a career-high 2.18 blocks per game, ranking him fourth in the NBA behind Larry Sanders of Milwaukee, Roy Hibbert of Indiana and Dwight Howard of the Los Angeles Lakers.
