Holiday Style

Apparently Rodney Stuckey got his holidays mixed up, because he treated New Year’s Eve like it was Halloween, trying his best to fill out an Isiah Thomas costume. In the first quarter of Pistons/Bulls, Stuckey got the ball on a fast break and planted his left foot wrong, dropping to the floor with a sprained

Rockets will extend contract of coach Rick Adelman

Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reports: With the Rockets ending the year surprisingly in the thick of playoff contention, Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said Thursday he was going to extend the contract of Rockets coach Rick Adelman in the coming weeks. Adelman, whose winning percentage with the Rockets is better than any coach in franchise history,

Daily Fantasy Diagnosis: 12.31

Beast of the Night: LeBron James celebrated his 25th birthday by going off for 48 points, 10 boards, 6 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.

Single-Season Team of the Decade

Watching “SportsCenter” run their Top 10 NBA plays of the decade the other night — where the top three coincidentally involved LeBron and Kobe directly — I officially ran out of patience for this “decade” stuff. I know it seems fitting to have the best plays of the decade topped by (depending on who you

The Bulls Could Be The Team That Rescues Tracy McGrady

Word on the street is the Chicago Bulls could be interested in acquiring a certain disgruntled former All-Star out in Texas. The Tracy McGrady saga in Houston has gone from bad to worse last week when the team sent him home in the middle of an Eastern Conference road trip. T-Mac has been at odds

Steve Nash Reminds You Why He Should Be An All-Star

Steve Nash would not be starting in the 2010 All-Star Game if voting ended today. The latest All-Star voting results were just announced and Nash is exactly 1,005 votes shy of the second guard spot in the West. That honor currently belongs to Tracy McGrady, who has played all of six games this season and

Varejão’s 1st career three puts Cavs over Hawks

In a battle of two of the East’s top teams, it took a great birthday performance by LeBron James and a late, shot-clock beating three-ponter from Anderson Varejão for the Cleveland Cavs to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 106-101. ( Talk NBA Basketball in our forum ) With the game tied at 101, LeBron James couldn’t find an opening against defenders Josh Smith and Al Horford . James got into the lane, but passed the ball off to Mo Williams, who fumbled his dribble before passing off to the 6-11 center from Brazil with three seconds left on the shot clock

Home-Cooked Meal

For the second night in a row, Cavs/Hawks played out with postseason-type intensity, ratcheted up a notch because it came 24 hours after their last physical down-to-the-wire contest, and with an extra spotlight due to it being LeBron’s birthday … The Hawks led by as much as 17 in the third quarter, but midway through

Manu Ginobili regaining form

Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News reports: Nearly 24 hours after the fact, the Spurs still were buzzing about the way Manu Ginobili turned Tuesday’s game against the Timberwolves into a personal time machine that transported him back to his days as one of the NBA’s most electrifying players.

Hornets nearly traded Brown to Timberwolves

The New Orleans Hornets apparently were close to having a deal in place to send guard Devin Brown (notes) to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Jason Hart (notes) , but the two sides couldn’t get it to work out financially, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Hornets apparently asked Brown to give up some of the cash he had coming to him so the deal could work but he wouldn’t do it.

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