The Great Eight: NBA Comebacks From 3-1 Deficits

Leave a comment

noahBruised and bloodied, the Chicago Bulls have no chance of overcoming a 3-1 deficit against LeBron James and the Miami Heat, right?

Right?

Well, don’t be so sure. Some pretty good players have been on the wrong end of 3-1 comebacks in the playoffs. Guys like Kobe Bryant. Patrick Ewing. Julius Erving. Charles Barkley. George Gervin. Jerry West. And Wilt Chamberlain.

And Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant and New York’s Carmelo Anthony don’t have enough help to overcome a 3-1 deficit and win their respective series, right?

Right?

Read more

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Filed Under: Playoffs, Video Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

SH Blog: Pierce Done In Boston? Curry Stars On And Off The Court; LeBron Open About 2010 “Phantom” Injury

Leave a comment

Paul PierceNothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

And for Paul Pierce, leader of the “old man’s pick-up game,” that adage will define his career as one of the greatest Boston Celtics in its storied history.

This is not to begin mourning the death of his Celtics life, but to understand what it all meant if reports today from Greg Dickerson are true. 

Read more

Pages: 1 2 3

Filed Under: Baroff, Blog, NBA, News Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

There Were No Mirrors in Dwyane Wade’s Hotel Room in Chicago

1 Comment

Or he lost his luggage and had to borrow a pair of pants from Nate Robinson.

fashion clothes

Perhaps Wade feels the need to fill the postseason haute couture void created by the season-ending injury to Russell Westbrook, who usually sets the tone for this sort of thing.

Unless Wade is headed to a wedding reception on the beach, “fashion” in the NBA has officially reached a new low. (Hat tip to Deadspin, among many.)

 

Filed Under: News, Photo, Playoffs Tagged With: , , , , ,

Ladewski: Heat are Easy to Hate — Especially in Chicago

1 Comment

LebronCHICAGO — Just when I had forgotten how much the Detroit Pistons were disliked back in their Bad Boys days, the Miami Heat awoke the echoes again. Or more accurately, the Chicago Bulls and their fans did it for them.

Every time the name LeBron James was announced, the rowdies can’t hold their boos. Every time he touched the ball, it was more of the same. There were enough hard pushes and shoves, well-placed elbows and venomous talk to reach at least 8.5 on the Laimbeer Scale, I’d say.

The Bulls players aren’t big fans,  either.

“I hate those motherlovers,” one of them grumbled out loud the other day. “They got a roster full of All-Stars, but they ain’t nothin’ but a bunch of . . .”

Insert imagination here.

Read more
Filed Under: Columns, Playoffs Tagged With: , ,

Tweet of the Day: Media response to the NBA All-Defensive Teams

Leave a comment

Monday brings with it two crucial second round Game 4s—with games between Miami and Chicago as well as Oklahoma City and Memphis—and the NBA announcing the All-Defensive Team.

Read more

Pages: 1 2

Filed Under: Tweet Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,