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Until last night, the New York Yankees had won more games in November than either the New York Knicks or the New Jersey Nets. In Charlotte, the Bobcats are trying their hardest to challenge the record for the worst field goal percentage in NBA history. Golden State and the Los Angeles Clippers remain locked in a fierce battle to see who will finish in the Pacific division cellar, and the Minnesota ...

Los Angeles Laker coach Phil Jackson alluded to the point that he felt Pau Gasol's appearance on CSI: Miami could have contributed to his recent hamstring injury. When pressed for an explanation, Jackson offered the theory that all the standing around that Gasol did on the set caused his legs to stiffen and tighten up, and when his part called for him to pull a person from a car, he could ...

It was inevitable that it would come to this. However, the fact that it is happening so early in the season is a little surprising. It was announced, in a rare statement from the San Antonio Spurs, that Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker would miss time due to injuries. It seems like I've heard that before, and I hope you can excuse my sarcasm, but who out there really thought that ...

The start of this NBA season has been more than any reasonable fan could have ever expected. Although we are only an eightth of the way through circumstances have touched the whole range of human emotions. We have been surprised, disappointed, exhilirated, confused, angry, and heart-broken, and many of those emotions may have occurred during the course of one game. Allen Iverson may have scored his final points, Brandon Jennings has announced his ...

If the Los Angeles Lakers can manage to escape San Antonio and Denver, who I see as their biggest challenges in the West, their journey will lead them to the NBA Finals where they will face one of three potential opponents from the Eastern Conference. The first of these teams is Cleveland, which is probably the best match-up for the defending champions. The Lakers hold all of the primary advantages over ...

Forgive me if I'm not impressed, but as a Charlotte native I've seen this played out before, in fact it involved the very same team as last time. Much ado about nothing has been made over the trade that took place between the Charlotte Bobcats and Golden State Warriors that sent Stephen Jackson to the Queen City in exchange for Raja Bell. Acie Law and Vladamir Radmonivich were also included in the ...

As I digest the magnitude of Brandon Jennings and his 55-point outburstùand the historical implications it has on the NBAùa few things pop into my mind. First of all, Jennings and his early success may have rendered the NBA's ridiculous age-limit rule totally irrelevant, and maybe we can get past the notion that players are better prepared after playing one year in college. There was much discussion about Jennings and his decision ...

To say the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Denver Nuggets on Friday night would not be doing justice to the word lost. I can think of a few better words like, battered, bruised, demolished, annihilated...take your pick from any of these. How bad was it? Denver reserve, Johan Petro made his grand entrance with six minutes left in the fourth quarter, and the significance in this is that Petro is ...

Derek Fisher has been responsible for more than a few moments that will be forever etched in Los Angeles Laker history. Who can forget his magical playoff run of 2001, where after coming off an injury he shot 76 percent from three point range and seemed as if he couldn't miss? What about his impossible shot in San Antonio that demoralized the Spurs and came with .04 seconds reading on the clock, ...

Let's see, start with a talented, but young Memphis team, mix in a troubled Allen Iverson, and sprinkle an untested coach on top and what do you get? Well, if I were cooking up a recipe for disaster, those would be my ingredients. In the wake of the latest failed Allen Iverson experiment, it may be time for the former superstar to ask himself some tough questions. He should start with, ...