My Fansided colleague, Drew Decker, wrote a post last August on basketball website Sir Charles In Charge listing who he felt were the league’s 10 worst general managers.
While I agreed with most of his list, I took exception to a couple of names—most notably, the Milwaukee Bucks’ John Hammond.
Decker and I exchanged opinions until we agreed to disagree. My contention was based on what I perceive to be a general manager’s No. 1 priority, and that’s doing what his owner asks of him.
At the time that Hammond traded Richard Jefferson to the Spurs for [...]

As the NBA regular season begins its final full month of action, there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
While the top seeds in each conferences seem to be locked up by the Lakers and Cavaliers, the 14 other playoff seeds, as well as home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, are up in the air.
In the aftermath of the Lakers’ come-from-behind victory over the Nuggets on Sunday night, I figured now would be a good time for my latest round of Uncontested Shots.
Without further ado….
More Rumors Regarding LeBron to the Lakers
HoopsHype columnist and well-respected NBA writer/historian Roland Lazenby wrote a [...]

It’s funny how the schedule makers in every sport seem to find a way to schedule a few games each season that can’t just be explained by luck.
Don’t confuse fluke scheduling with deliberate scheduling. For example, nobody should be surprised if the Red Sox and Yankees or Cardinals and Cubs were to play each other the final week of the regular season.
What I’m talking about is the kind of scheduling we saw the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs when three of the four games were rematches of games played the Sunday before.
In the NBA, the scheduling gods don’t seem [...]

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If you missed Part I, “10 Upcoming NBA Free Agents Who May Have Hurt Their Value This Season,” you can find it here.
I’m not going to waste your time or mine in listing the cream of the crop in this summer’s free agent class since the guys who are [...]

We all know the obvious names in the NBA Free Agent Class of 2010—LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, etc.
We also know the names of the guys who have the chance to rip up their current deals and sign new ones before the expiration of the league’s current collective bargaining agreement—Amaré Stoudemire, Paul Pierce, Dirk Nowitzki, Kenyon Martin, etc.
But there are a number of soon-to-be free agents, or potential free agents, who might find the free agent market not as welcoming to them as they initially perceived it might be.
Some of these guys are free-agents-to-be, while others have [...]

If you missed Part I: The Best Offseason Moves in the NBA So Far click here.
You know the old expression that hindsight is 20/20. And while that is true most of the time, there are instances where teams in every sport try to make bold moves that they hope will pan out in spite of the fact that most people thought it was a bad move at the time.
Is anyone surprised that the Chicago Cubs traded Milton Bradley one year into a 3-year, $30 million contract he signed last year?
The only reason the Cubs were able to find a taker [...]

If there’s one thing that a lot of NBA fans are guilty of it’s what I like to call “GM Worship”. This happens when a fan thinks that every move that their team’s GM makes is brilliant.
I remember Raptors fans in the summer of 2008 who couldn’t shut up about the brilliance of Bryan Colangelo. They couldn’t have been any giddier about Hassan Adams, Roko Ukic, and Nathan Jawai.
A year later and none of the three are still members of the Raptors. Adams is playing in Serbia, Ukic was traded to the Bucks, and Jawai was traded to the Mavericks, [...]

If the last few seasons are any indication, one of the NBA’s golden eras might soon be coming to an end.
From 1992-96 the NBA experienced five of it’s greatest draft classes in terms of superstar talent and career longevity. Now that many of those stars have begun retiring, we have a large enough sample with which to gauge the average career span of the modern-day NBA superstar.
There are a number of factors which separate this particular generation from those that preceded it.
For example, the number of high school games many of those guys played was nearly twice as many as [...]

In light of Saturday night’s events, you really have to feel for Greg Oden. Fran Blinebury of NBA.com points out that by the conclusion of this season , Oden will have played in just 82 of a possible 246 games to begin his career. That’s exactly one full season of games out of three.
While I’m not trying to say that injuries to athletes who are unlikable should be cheered, the fact that Oden seems to be a great kid makes it that much more heartbreaking.
If you don’t believe me, check out Oden’s “audition” for the hosting gig at the 2008 ESPY Awards.
Looking [...]

Nobody hates it when writers and fans talk about teams winning 70 games before January more than I do.
To be perfectly honest, it really doesn’t make sense to talk about a team’s chances of winning 70 games until the All-Star break.
So before any of you call me a hypocrite just understand that this isn’t my attempt at making a case for the Lakers winning 70 games as much as it is a primer for what all of you Lakers haters and homers need to pay attention to before you start broaching the subject.
History
The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls were the only team [...]