Hey fellow hoops addict! This is a quick post to let you know I’ve created a group on Ballhype for their Playoffs Pick’em Bracket game. You can challenge me and other writers by joining the Basketball Addicts group and earn bragging rights for winning. While there isn’t a prize for winning my group, if you [...]

Every NBA pundit tells us that this season’s Western Conference teams are like no other in NBA history. With a win over the Memphis Grizzlies last night, the Denver Nuggets became the eighth team in the West to reach the 50-win mark. Golden State, the ninth-place team in the West, wound up with 48 wins, [...]

This weekend marks the start of the NBA playoffs and with it comes anticipation. Players like DeShawn Stevenson and LeBron James prepare to back up their trash talk, while coaches like Phil Jackson work furiously on their master game plans to get their teams ready for the grueling task of coming out of the their [...]

As he sat in seclusion in the depths of the TD Banknorth Garden’s locker room, Kevin Maurice Garnett found a brief moment of solitude. Having been bombarded with well wishes and champagne from jovial teammates and media members alike, Garnett needed a moment to himself to reflect on what had transpired over the last month [...]

* AOL Funhouse posted one of the best interviews with Carmelo Anthony I’ve ever watched. The interview was conducted by Miss Gossip and her style of doing interviews is quickly becoming one of my favourites. She’s well prepared when it comes to her research, doesn’t ask brutal questions and her laid back manner helps the [...]

I can readily admit that I am not a big women’s college basketball fan. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I treat women’s basketball the way Tiger Woods’ fans treat a tournament he has not entered into. I may casually glance to see who won here and there, but I [...]

Over the last week of the season you will find several teams out of contention trying to figure out who on their roster are a part of the problem or a part of the solution. With the New York Knicks experiment proving to everyone that you must rebuild, and not reload, you can expect [...]

Throughout most of the season Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have been bandied about as the main candidates to be named MVP this season. While all three players are strong candidates to win the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, over the past few weeks a new candidate has burst onto the scene.
Who is this mystery [...]

* Empty The Bench is one of my favourite sites and they proved why with their article “Quiet Heroics: The NBA’s Best Glue Players.” In the article they broke down 12 players who quietly do the dirty work that helps their respective teams win games. Empty The Bench continues to come up with some great [...]

After pulling out a much needed road win against Charlotte on Monday can the Raptors repeat their luck tonight? Raptors fans sure hope so as the team is currently in a three-way tie for fifth place and every game is huge as Toronto doesn’t want to face Detroit in the first round of the playoffs.
To [...]