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On Thursday the Phoenix Suns retained the services of a 7-foot center with four-year career averages of over 16 points and 10 rebounds. DeAndre Ayton is only 23 and his new contract runs for four years and it will pay him $133 million, a very good deal for Phoenix. To
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Warriors go Joe
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Literally most NBA teams made moves, we probed ‘em. LOS ANGELES LAKERS This summer wasn’t handing the Lakers any answers, if Los Angeles simply set out to acquire the best players regardless of fit, fine, this is where Lonnie Walker IV works. He can’t stop anyone from scoring
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You used to have to wait until midnight, the start of the next month, just past the point of tampering, to show up at Antonio Davis’ door and ask him to be your free agent. These days we burn right through. Six-trillion NBA deals before June concludes, this email documents
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Maybe they were right, last week, when they told us the NBA draft would be full of trades. When they encouraged us to tune in because, hey, 90 percent of the NBA tries to make the playoffs now, 88 percent of the NBA is unhappy with its potential playoff rotation,
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Ime Udoka let loose a little dig at the Warriors’ expense in Game 6, on national broadcast television. If the Warriors won’t be “deliberate” with their shots, Udoka told Lisa Salters before the fourth quarter, Boston might as well take advantage.
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It’s hard to be a superstar. In baseball, they pitch around you. In football, they’ll load the line. Basketball? No getting around it, even Jordan had rules. There are only a handful of pros capable of handling 20 shots a night without killing their team. For most NBA
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The winner of Game 4 was going to earn a serious edge — 3-1 lead but with the next game on the road or tied 2-2 but with home court advantage — so Golden State fell back on the things we expected. Thing. Good muscle memory down the stretch for Golden State,
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Stephen Curry tried to go for 25 in the third quarter. Steve Kerr ran pick and roll. Klay Thompson came back, and Golden State’s bench showed up. Yet the Celts were not to be had. The Warriors gave their Golden, yet Boston was better, and pulled the 2-1 series
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The Celtics will be terrified on Wednesday night. This young team is familiar playing deep into the postseason but there is nothing like the pressure of defending home court in the Finals, especially with a smirking set of Warriors on the other side of the stripe.
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“Questionable” for Game 2, they told us. Robert Williams III, out but probably in, the Boston Celtics giving the Silicone-sainted Golden State Warriors the runaround with RWIII. Bettors, too! Game 2 clicks on and Robert Williams, “questionable,” is again inside the starting lineup. The Warriors seem a little annoyed, and
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It was hard to determine when Al Horford was tallest in that fourth quarter. Possibly when he intercepted a Draymond Green (too short) entry pass with five minutes left, at the same moment ABC televised Steve Kerr’s “we gotta go, now!”-timeout, the speech behind the desperate play Horford