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Fun with numbers: November trends
Note: Brian McKitish’s top 100 players are ranked for their fantasy value for the 2013-14 NBA season. Previous rank is indicated in parentheses. 1. Kevin Durant, OKC (1) 2. LeBron James, MIA (2) 3. John Wall, WSH (12) 11. Carmelo Anthony, NY (11) 12. Ty Lawson, DEN (13) 13. Kyrie Irving, CLE (10) 14. Serge […]
Continue readingEarly-season injury fallout
Note: Brian McKitish’s top 100 players are ranked for their fantasy value for the 2013-14 NBA season. Previous rank is indicated in parentheses. 1. Kevin Durant, OKC (1) 2. LeBron James, MIA (2) 3. Chris Paul, LAC (3) 4. Anthony Davis, NO (4) 5. James Harden, HOU (5) 6. Stephen Curry, GS (6) 7. Kevin […]
Continue readingPierce a buy-low due to Rondo injury
Note: Brian McKitish’s top 130 players are ranked for their fantasy value from this point forward in the 2012-13 NBA season. Previous rank is indicated in parentheses. 1. Kevin Durant, OKC (1) 2. LeBron James, MIA (2) 3. Chris Paul, LAC (3) 4. Russell Westbrook, OKC (4) 5. James Harden, HOU (6) 6. Kyrie Irving, […]
Continue readingJae Crowder, Phoenix Suns reach 3-year deal, reports say
Crowder, 30, was a key postseason contributor for the Miami Heat on their run to the NBA Finals in 2020. He became an unrestricted free agent after completing the last season of a five-year, $35 million contract he signed with the Boston Celtics in 2015. A 6-foot-6, 235-pound forward, Crowder provided strong defense off the […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers’ Rob Pelinka: Summoned vital energy via spirit of Kobe Bryant
When things were at their most difficult and trying during 100-plus days inside the NBA bubble, Rob Pelinka said he often heard Kobe Bryant’s voice in his head telling him to “stay the course” and “finish the task.” After the Los Angeles Lakers returned to the top by winning the franchise’s 17th championship Sunday night, […]
Continue readingNBA Power Rankings, way-too-early edition: Next for Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat and all 30 teams
Now what? As the league enters an offseason of more uncertainty, we’re taking a way-too-early look at where all 30 teams stand heading into the 2020-21 season. Note: These rankings are based on which teams voters (a group of more than 40 reporters, insiders and editors) think belong higher heading into next season, taking into […]
Continue readingNBA Finals: The scenes of a Lakers title celebration like no other
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Drake’s latest hit, “Laugh Now Cry Later,” was blaring in the Los Angeles Lakers’ makeshift locker room at AdventHealth Arena. And fresh off his fourth NBA championship, LeBron James needed a quieter place to talk. Drenched in Champagne, goggles strapped to his face, holding a lit cigar in one hand […]
Continue readingInside the longest, most unpredictable year in NBA history
An hour before the 2019 NBA Finals tipped off in Toronto — the first time the league’s showcase event had been played outside the United States — commissioner Adam Silver reminded those watching that basketball’s founder, James Naismith, was a Christian missionary who brought the game to China and Europe in the belief that it […]
Continue readingHow LeBron James and Jeanie Buss squashed Lakers drama
When their schedules finally aligned, on an off night in early March 2019, it wasn’t exactly an ideal time for either. James and the Lakers had just lost five in a row, the fifth being a particularly galling 120-107 loss to the Kyrie Irving-led Boston Celtics at Staples Center. The groin injury that had bothered […]
Continue readingNBA playoffs: The Miami Heat’s Duncan Robinson steps into the sunlight
But Spoelstra had come to know his young sharpshooter, Duncan Robinson, well enough to understand that a heartfelt speech about believing in yourself wasn’t going to do it. “I really wasn’t even a good high school player,” Robinson said. “I didn’t have any plays for me run in college — ever.” And Spoelstra was talking […]
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