For the lastest Hoops Addict Podcast I was joined by Leigh Ellis to talk about Oklahoma City improving their team with the addition of Kendrick Perkins, the mutiny currently going on in Detroit and Baron Davis being dealt to Cleveland.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder still can’t solve their Los Angeles rivals.
The young guns of Oklahoma City, primed to be the vanguard of the NBA’s next generation, were outdueled by the Western Conference’s stalwart Lakers, losing an exhausting Sunday matinee 90-87. Desperate to make the leap from nuisance to contender, the Thunder aren’t there yet.
But they’re [...]

* Rashad Mobley wonders if JaVale McGee can grow into the defensive player Tyson Chandler currently is.
* Bob Kravitz makes a passionate plea for the NBA adopting a hard cap or something similar to the Franchise tag the NFL uses. Both ideas are something I’ve been talking about for months. It appears great minds do [...]

Jason Terry chatted with HOOPSADDICT.com about the team’s strong season, the benefits of being a sixth man and how not having the team make any deadline deals helped the team.

Whether the media reports that Deron Williams played a key role in Jerry Sloan filing his retirement papers midway through the season have any factual basis or not, it was time Williams moved on from Salt Lake. And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut would say, the career of the NBA’s longest tenured coach at [...]

Nick Young chats with HOOPSADDICT.com about his new teammates and Washington’s current stretch of tough games.

While Bibby and Evans were limited in the first quarter of Saturday night’s matchup, the second half saw all three new players on the court together. Crawford was the first to score, with a jumper at the 9:07 mark in the second quarter. Bibby followed less than two minutes later with a 2-point jumper of his own off a fast break.

Grant Hill reminisced with HOOPSADDICT.com about Duke’s win over UNLV in the 1991 Final Four, the week leading up to the game and being the last player involved in that game still playing professionally.

The last time Bryan Colangelo was tasked with the type of rebuilding effort that he currently faces with the Toronto Raptors, he transformed this same Raptors franchise into an Atlantic division champion just one year after the team had secured the No. 1 over-all pick thanks to a 27-55 season. So maybe the guy knows a thing or two about developing clubs from the ground up, and should be trusted to return Toronto to its ever-fleeting tastes of postseason play.

Amidst the mayhem that comes with every trade deadline, the Houston Rockets adjusted their roster with a pair of subtle moves for the future.