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Sports Central May 14, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Why Scott Brooks Should Go In recent years, there's been a very questionable trend take hold in NBA front offices, where coaches get fired even after guiding their teams to excellent, 50-win-plus seasons. |
Sports Central April 11, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Three NBA Playoff Predictions The NBA playoffs have begun and this year the race to the finals looks more open than usual. Teams like the Bulls, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, and Magic all look like the favorites to reach the Finals. |
Sports Central May 7, 2012 Stephen Kerr |
Why the Spurs Could Capture the Title Now that the NBA postseason is underway, speculation abounds as to who will be crowned the next champion. The San Antonio Spurs could have something to say about who grabs the brass ring. |
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand |
Top 10 Coaches With The Highest Salaries Unproven coaches are generally not given gigantic salaries right from the start. They have to work their way up through the assistant level or prove their value coaching collegiate teams. And the 10 coaches at the top of the salary list are a perfect example of this. |
Sports Central March 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Eastern Conference Race is Heating Up The NBA's Eastern Conference is garnerning a lot of attention and not just due to East Coast bias and Carmelo Anthony's presence in NYC. Some teams are imploding, while others are rising, and there are actual races for playoff spots. |
Sports Central August 26, 2013 Jonathan Lowe |
School's in Session Over half of the changes in NBA coaching came from almost half of the teams that made the playoffs. With so many new faces in new places, there are bound to be a few that NBA fans don't readily recognize. |
Sports Central June 18, 2007 Brad Oremland |
Are the Spurs a Dynasty? To help answer that question, here's a look at the NBA's most dynastic teams ever. |
Sports Central February 26, 2013 Robert Campbell |
Spurs of the Moment As of February 25th, the San Antonio Spurs have posted an overall record of 45-13 -- three games better than both the Oklahoma City Thunder and the defending champion Miami Heat. |
Sports Central June 25, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Falling Down Just to Stand Up Over the last 20 years or so in the NBA, there's a fascinating trend that has developed: rarely do the league's biggest stars immediately find championship success on their first trip to the Finals or a grand, high-pressure stage. |
Sports Central January 20, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Season: We're Halfway There Most of the NBA teams have reached (or pushed past) the halfway point of the season. The first two and a-half months offered up some interesting results. |
Sports Central June 4, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
NBA Finals Are the Spurs' For the Taking The 2014 NBA Finals will feature the first rematch of the previous year's championship series since the Bulls and Jazz met in 1998. |
Sports Central April 18, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
Once Again, the West Proves Wild The NBA postseason that got underway Saturday didn't exactly pick up where the regular season ended. |
Sports Central May 3, 2012 Gary Flick |
X-ceptional This year's NBA playoffs have already given us epic comebacks, suspensions, MVP season-ending injuries, confrontations with refs, confrontations with fire extinguishers, and (my personal favorite) superstar game winners ... and no team has played more than two games. |
Sports Central May 5, 2015 Corrie Trouw |
Donovan to OKC: Secondary Needs Former Florida Gators coach Billy Donovan left his position in Gainesville Thursday to become the new head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder. |
Sports Central June 5, 2006 Vince Grzegorek |
NBA Finals: A Time For Firsts For the first time since 1971, we have two teams facing off that have never been to the championship series before. So how do you evaluate the x-factor if there is no experience? |
Sports Central April 9, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
Play on or Stay Home? The following basketball teams would be best served by making the playoffs. |
Sports Central July 24, 2013 Andrew Jones |
14 Teams to Watch in 2013-14 The NBA season is still a ways away, but the offseason has been an interesting one. Here are 14 teams to watch in the upcoming season, some for obvious reasons ... others for not so obvious reasons. |
Sports Central May 16, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Keys to the NBA Conference Finals The 2011 NBA conference finals are underway and this final four gives us youth, age, and plenty of superstar power. |
Sports Central March 16, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
The NBA's Race For Last Three teams that made statements in the last postseason are now fighting each other for the final spot in the upcoming postseason. So who's got the upper hand? |
Sports Central April 14, 2008 Jonathan Lowe |
The Starting Five Off the Court Five questions about the NBA postseason. |
Sports Central March 30, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 21 This week's Starting Five takes a look at the Western Conference playoff race as we try to sort through the madness that is taking place on the left coast and figure out which three teams will win the coveted home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. |
Sports Central December 21, 2005 Joe Pietaro |
Is it Hip to Be Clip Now? In this topsy-turvy NBA season, it's the Clippers who are promoting exciting and winning basketball at the arena in which they were once considered second-class citizens. |
Sports Illustrated June 15, 2001 Phil Taylor |
What's in a name? Users recommend alternative titles for the NBA Finals... |
Sports Illustrated December 11, 2001 Jack McCallum |
Waiting for Jackson Jeff Van Gundy is gone as coach of the Knicks, and one name, rest assured, will echo and re-echo through the streets of New York over the next few months, maybe for the next few years: Phil Jackson... |
Sports Central June 17, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The Dizzying Coaching Carousel The two teams that are still playing as the calendar clicks over to the latter half of June, offer a model of smart, consistent management and leadership in coaching for success. |
Sports Central October 12, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 2) It's time for some bold predictions. |
AskMen.com Andrew Segal |
Top 10 Sports Dynasties Of All Time Dynasties are a huge part of sports, and this list looks back on the top 10 professional sports dynasties of all time. |
Sports Central January 25, 2010 Scott Shepherd |
Eighth is Enough Which players will be named to the all-star team? Which players will be traded at the deadline? Which coaches are going to get fired? Which teams are going to tank to try and get a better draft pick? |
Sports Central November 4, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
Who Makes the NBA Playoffs in '06? Sure, everyone has a shot at the trophy now, but only 16 squads will continue the fight in April. So, you ask, who might those be? |
Sports Central August 22, 2012 Jonathan Lowe |
Branching Out As the 30th Olympiad got underway, though, the Orlando Magic made another move to try and bolster their future. |
Sports Central May 2, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Carlisle is Worthwhile There hasn't been a year in recent memory where the race for coach of the year was so close, particularly with the continuous coaching carousel in the NBA. Still, here are the viable candidates. |
Sports Central October 12, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
NBA East Will Be Battle of Big Threes NBA general managers got a bit ahead of themselves last week when they penciled in the Los Angeles Lakers for a three-peat, but they did nail half the NBA Finals matchup in the process. |
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For this NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a look at the preseason favorites to win some of the NBA's most prestigious awards. |
Sports Illustrated March 13, 2001 Ian Thomsen |
Pat Pending Retirement is no longer a distant notion to Heat coach Pat Riley... |
Sports Central February 11, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
The Granddad of All Pops Let me be one of the last to say congratulations. On Monday night, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich became the ninth NBA head coach to lead his team to 1,000 regular season victories. |
Sports Central May 15, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
Grizzlies Roaring to New Heights The NBA playoffs, versus the postseason in any other major American sport, and especially those with single-elimination formats, are thought to be the most chalk-stained and uncompelling by many. |
Sports Central July 8, 2014 Brad Oremland |
If They Were All in Their Primes... Who would be the best NBA team of all-time ... if everyone on the team was in his prime? Here are 12 contenders. |
Sports Central June 29, 2009 Sean Crowe |
The NBA Finals Left Me Feeling Empty The NBA Gods righted themselves after the 1985-86 season by giving us the Lakers/Celtics rematch we deserved. Here's the hoping the NBA Gods do the same thing next season. |
Sports Central June 15, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Finals Edition It was a very entertaining NBA Finals from start to finish. |
Sports Central July 27, 2004 Eric Williams |
An Open Letter to Kobe Bryant "I guess congratulations are in order. You won. You got what you've wanted all along. You got your max contract and Shaq got shown the door. You are now the unquestioned leader of this new-look Laker team." |
Sports Central October 20, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 4) Examining the Western Conference and the projected record for each team. |
Sports Illustrated June 11, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Everybody loves an underdog Philadelphia may not win the title, but it has already done something fairly amazing. It has stolen the spotlight from the glamorous Lakers... |
Sports Central December 16, 2009 Davan Mani |
Observations in NBA Coaching My favorite part watching a basketball game is to see how coaches communicate during timeouts. |
Sports Central February 24, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Five Games to Watch Down the Stretch Here are five basketball games to watch, in no particular order, which will help define the NBA playoff picture. |
Sports Central June 2, 2008 Brian Cox |
All Things Old Become New Again For the 11th time in league history, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers will square off for the NBA title. |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2001 Ian Thomsen |
Down to The Wire In the wild Western Conference, there's playoff intensity in the fight for NBA playoff spots... |
Sports Central May 2, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Unstoppable Grizzlies From Graceland Nothing about the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies of 2011 indicated there was anything other than the usual mediocrity to this team going into the postseason. |
Sports Central April 28, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
Top 10 Active NBA Players Without a Title Here is a list of the top 10 active players without an NBA title. |
Sports Central May 29, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Pistons, Lakers to Renew Rivalry? Four teams remain in the NBA Playoffs, and there is little doubt as to which contest this author would like to see in the final round: Lakers vs. Pistons. |
Sports Central May 28, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Main Event Let's be honest. This year's NBA playoffs haven't been anything special. While the game often slows down and scoring drops once the second season starts, this year has had a litany of ugly rock-fights. |