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The most mystifying sub-.500 team in the NBA this year is surely the Milwaukee Bucks, who knocked off the Heat for the second time in little over a week on Wednesday night. (If you are mystified by the Knicks being under .500, you know less about basketball than anyone should ever admit).

Milwaukee won 105-97 on Wednesday despite [...]

It seems that the NBA hasn’t realized it yet, but its once-acclaimed dunk contest is laying on its death bed. What was once one of the sport’s top spectacles, an indication of everything that was right with the NBA, has sadly developed into a weak annual attempt of trying to keep tradition alive. Long gone are the days of Jordan and Wilkins slicing[...]

And I do not care.  Individual awards are great for baseball or contract incentives.  In Football and Basketball they mean very little to fans who care about their team winning.  The pointlessness of the Rookie of the Year award could not have better evidence than this season.  Two weeks into the year the award was Brandon [...]

It is nice to see that for what most would have considered a down month where Brandon Jennings struggled, he was still able to average 16.7 points, 6.5 assists and 3.3 rebounds for the month and win Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month.
I will take any good publicity for the Bucks in a month where [...]

There is not much more that is needed to be said about Brandon Jennings 55 point explosion against the Warriors on Saturday night.  He was on fire, his third quarter was indescribable for a fan of a team that has struggled so mightily the last few years as the Bucks.
As far as my analysis goes, [...]

Another year, another NBA Draft choke full of hilarity.
I’m not crazy about the Thabeet pick, but the Grizzlies have a young and interesting starting five. Thabeet, younger Gasol, Gay, Mayo and Conley. The Thunder also did a nice job of filling out its roster. It’ll throw out a lineup of Krstic, Green, Durant, Harden and [...]