If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Who needs a Chauncey Billups when you have a perfectly healthy Lindsey Hunter? Of course, I doubt the Pistons players would agree with me but when you have Rip Hamilton dropping 30-plus points and Tayshaun Prince dropping game-winners, maybe [...]

8-42, LeBron? Eight for forty-two shooting in the first two games of this series? Really? After opening the series with a blistering 2-14, King James followed that explosion up with 6-24 outing.
Could this be bad-tipping karma coming home to roost or is his (lack of) performance a combination of [...]

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While Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis were spectacularly brilliant last night, the indelible image from Game 3 of the Detroit/Orlando series is the one of Chauncey Billups falling awkwardly with this his legs in Van Damme-like split. However, in Billups’ case, the splits he was doing wasn’t purposeful and if the [...]

I’m not sure what that was last night, but I don’t think it was playoff-level basketball we were watching. I am, of course, talking about Game One of the Celtics/Cavaliers series that got off to a whimper instead of the expected bang. Oh, the game was close but it wasn’t because great basketball [...]

Because they like to stretch everything for TV scheduling purposes, there is only one NBA Playoff game tonight, but it should be a good one. Celtics/Cavs. Who ya got? King James and his fellow LeBrons or the Three-party from Beantown? Can the Celtics find a way to derail the force of [...]

The NBA Playoffs start tomorrow and for today’s IEC award, we are going to focus on the lovely ladies who make up the Eastern Conference playoff attendee cheerleaders. What the plan is, leading off with the Celtics — you know, best team and all — to present the stoppage-in-play entertainment so you can know [...]

Now that the Madness of College Basketball has come to a close (quick, tell me who won the National Championship*), we are moving on to the real deal where basketball supremacy is earned via grueling 7-game series that resemble all-out brawls. There aren’t very many Stephen Curry/hot-shooting streak upsets in the NBA playoffs because [...]

While the Western Conference is waiting until the very last day to decide their seeding arrangements, the Eastern Conference has already turned in their batting order line-up and there are some intriguing match-ups you might want to pay attention to:
Will Boston steamroll Atlanta? Not if Josh Childress has his way.
How about Detroit? Will they [...]