1. Orlando Magic • Nerlens Noel • 6’10″ / 230 / F / Kentucky Think of this pick as a ball of Play-Doh — the person holding it can form it into anything, and even can take it apart to make other balls. The only question the person holding it[...]
When Trey Burke chased down Peyton Siva in the national championship game Monday night and blocked Siva’s shot, but called the foul, I was outraged. The implications of that play are massive. If the referees call it a clean block and let them play on, Michigan could’ve stolen momentum and[...]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is a smart person, has made a lot of money in his life and has built championships teams in the NBA, but his idea to draft Baylor women’s basketball player Brittney Griner late in the second round of the NBA Draft is laughable. Griner, a[...]
The last shot Shabazz Muhammad will ever take as a UCLA Bruin is a missed layup. The ball skipped over the rim as the freshmen tried to pad his stats as the clock expired on the Bruins’ 20-point drubbing via Minnesota in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on[...]
I updated my pre-NBA Draft player rankings on Feb. 19 and there have been some big risers and fallers, including Nerlens Noel, who suffered a torn ACL recently. The two players who’ve risen to the top, in place of Noel and Shabazz Muhammed, are Anthony Bennett (UNLV) and Ben McLemore[...]
An injured rose doesn’t equate to a dead rose bush. In this case, an injured Derrick Rose doesn’t mean that the Bulls are done. It’s quite the contrary. With Rose only playing 39 games last season, the Bulls were still able to come away with the best record in the[...]
Minnesota’s Rodney Williams has a lot to prove to NBA scouts this season, specifically if he can keep up the kind of numbers he produced night-in and night-out in the postseason NIT last year. In the Golden Gophers improbably ride to the championship game of the NIT, Williams was a[...]
When spiteful old man Greg Oden woke up Monday morning, hopped on his Twitter (which is steadily decreasing its followers) and saw Yahoo! Sports reporting that Anthony Davis “severely sprained his ankle” in a Hornets workout, he thought the following: HAHA! SURE THING, MY ASS! … SEE, JAY BILAS, THERE’S NO[...]
6:19 P.M/CT: Gordo and Lizzie just kissed at the end of the “The Lizzie McGuire” movie. What a good movie and a good Disney series. I specifically remember the Disney Channel taking a massive downfall after shows like “Lizzie McGuire.” There was no better channels to grow up on than Disney[...]
Only 15 days ago, the basketball experts were stumped. After the Miami Heat dominated the Boston Celtics in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals like they were supposed to, the tide started to change. The Celtics, a team with pockets full of championship experience, closed the deficit up. The[...]