Posts Tagged ‘Deron Williams’

Whats Doin: Chris Bosh gets wild

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Chris Bosh goes nuts with a bottle of champagne, spraying himself in crazy fashion.
* The Brooklyn Nets stoop to ‘Orlando Magic-type’ pathetic lows in order to persuade Deron Williams to re-sign this offseason. They parked a truck outside his apartment in Brooklyn wishing [...]

Whats Doin: Revenge is a dish best served cold, or a chop to the throat will suffice

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Tracy McGrady in a Chinese beer commercial. Yeah, that beer will be flying off the shelves now….
* Indiana bench warmer and noted deadbeat Lance Stephenson mocks LeBron James with a choke sign during their Game 3 win over the Heat. With all they’ve [...]

Quotes of the Month – April 2012

“I don’t do treatment. I hate training rooms.”
- Portland’s Raymond Felton, when asked what kind of treatment he’d been receiving on his Achilles injury.
That’s got to be a contender for Quote of the Year, no?
“Either that or blow it in the club.”
- Wizards’ rookie Chris Singleton, on why he spent $10,000 on lottery tickets.
Yeah, we [...]

Whats Doin: Dirk’s still Dirk

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Russell Westbrook destroys Omer Asik.
* Dirk Nowitzki with a one-legged step-back off-glass game winner. Wow!
* Apparently Dwight Howard will push for Stan Van Gundy’s removal this offseason. Considering that Van Gundy’s stellar coaching is the reason why this horrible Magic squad still masquerades [...]

The things I learned in March

Some random observations from the previous month’s action:
* Don’t discount the Portland Trail Blazers as a serious option for Deron Williams this offseason. With Dwight Howard staying put in Orlando (for now) you’d have to be a bit nutty to think Williams will stick around with the Nets, because without Howard on board they’re a [...]

Quotes of the Month – March 2012

“Now that it’s over, the doggone thing didn’t work. We didnt get a (center) and it didn’t work. We’ve heard for a long time that you can’t play with two small guards. Well, we’ve now opened up some playing time for somebody at (shooting guard) that’s not a small guard. We’re going to be a [...]

Whats Doin: Things get testy

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Is this the worst flop ever?
* Joel Przybilla wants a piece of Carlos Boozer. More precisely, he wanted to meet him after the game and “f**k him up”.
* It’s been a feisty week. Minnesota teammates Kevin Love and J.J. Barea get into it [...]

Whats Doin: Baron Davis has a ‘herniated d*ck’?

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* The Charlotte Observer reports that Baron Davis is recovering from a “herniated d*ck”.
* A few laughers from The Basketball Jones – A ‘flop-off’ in Chicago, and KG gets testy with a cup of water.
* Andrew Bynum “was pulled over by the police [...]

10 Things We Learned In February

It’s that time again folks, when I chime in with 10 observations from the previous month’s NBA action. Let’s get straight into it.
1.         Melo Did Good For Melo
He’s a one-trick pony and a very VERY bad liar, but you have to hand it to the guy. Through all this mess (that he created) [...]

The ‘Stay or Go’ Chronicles

In November of 2008 I wrote an article on the 2010 offseason, predicting which players would stay with their current team and which would leave. For the marquee names – LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare Stoudemire and Joe Johnson – I was bang on.
In the next two years a new wave of stars [...]