Archive for June, 2011

  During the NBA Draft, former Knicks head coach Jeff Van Gundy said the smartest, yet simplest thing ever. ” You want to either be really good, or really bad. You never want to be the middle in the NBA.” I agreed and disagreed at the same time. On one hand, 45 wins for 10 seasons and no title appearances could get boring for a fan base and it will always cause coaches being fired, and players being moved around. However, since 1980, only 11 teams won a NBA title. 11 teams split 31 titles? Sometimes, those 40-50 win seasons [...]

    Some of these picks were terrible, If you want to see the first fifteen picks, click here

  You know people give teams grades and count second round picks? Instead of giving out grades to teams, I figured, why not just give each 1st round pick it’s own grade? It allows us to touch upon the picks in a volume, I don’t want to talk about Malcolm Lee at 43 to Minnesota, or Jeremy Tyler at 39 to Charlotte because I don’t know if those guys truly matter in the grand scheme of the team yet. First round picks? They matter, so here’s the first fifteen picks in the NBA draft and their draft grades.

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  The 2009 NBA draft. Stephen Curry, Blake Griffin, Tyreke Evans, James Harden, Brandon Jennings and Jrue Holiday. Sounds pretty good right? We didn’t think about it at the time, but this draft was considered weak at the time. Turns out it was one of the strongest we’ve seen in a while. The 2010 draft, loaded with John Wall, Evan Turner, Greg Monroe and DeMarcus Cousins, seemed to be strong as well. With just three days left before the NBA draft, the 2011 class is being picked apart, and from the looks of it, this is supposed to be one [...]

Where do I begin? How do you say thank you, to average work? If this was a gift, it was the 75 dollar sweater that you only wear once? Yesterday, it was announced that Donnie Walsh will not return to the Knicks GM position for the 2011-2012 season. I don’t know how to feel about it, mainly because we had one winning season in three seasons. Coming in 2008, Walsh and D’Antoni were seen as saviors, but that’s hardly the case at all. In fact, you can argue they hurt the franchise more then helped the franchise. Am I crazy? [...]

Nobody was surprised when Pat Riley was named a co-recipient of the 2011 Executive of the Year Award. You could make the case that Riley signed the top three names on any GM’s list of the top-10 available free agents. You could also make the case that Riley signed two more names off the top-20 list when he snagged Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem. The real reason that Riley was able to sign more than two guys off that list was because of a trade he’d made back in February of 2009. You’d have to go even further back to [...]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the Los Angeles Lakers and owner Jerry Buss plan on retiring Shaq’s No. 34. That’s because even when the relationship between Shaq and the Lakers was at it’s most contentious, the Lakers still took the high road. Every time Shaq blasted the organization or went out of his way to diss the franchise by either declaring every one of his post-Lakers coaches or teammates as “the best he’s ever played for or with” the Lakers as an organization never took the bait. When Lamar Odom arrived in Los Angeles as part [...]