Say it ain’t so, Melo.
Carmelo Anthony says that a contusion he suffered in the Knicks’ loss to Toronto on Wednesday night could force him out of Sunday’s All-Star Game in Houston, denying us of the opportunity of a continuation of the on-court feud between Melo and Kevin Garnett.
Orlando will be the host for this year’s NBA All-Star Game. Dwight Howard has been rumored in many trades, but the Magic have kept him around long enough to have him be the main attraction at this game.
As the NBA playoffs roll on, handicappers should take careful note of how teams did against each other during the regular season. Examine head to head matchups individually and as a group. Does one team dominate another? If so, are the reasons for this, or was it merely a fluke during the long grind of an 82-game schedule?
The NBA regular season is winding down quickly and Matt Fargo took a look at the remaining schedule of the 30 teams in the league to see what teams could have a tough time down the stretch.
Here are five teams he thinks have the toughest roads coming in.
NBA All-Star Weekend isn’t just a time for basketball fans to take in the best the Association has to offer. It’s also a time for basketball bettors to catch their breath and prepare for handicapping the second half of the season.
The sixth week of 2009-10 NBA regular season saw the league’s elite title contenders move back to the top of the pecking order in my weekly NBA Power Rankings while many of the upstart title contenders in each conference fell back a bit to rankings more befitting of their contender status.
News flash: Cavaliers/Lakers in the NBA Finals. The Big 3 back in December were the Lakers out West and the Celtics and Cavs in the East.
Two of those three were expected to meet in the NBA Finals. Not much has changed since, with the exception of all the injuries to key players preventing any other team from cracking that elite list.
