Atlanta Hawks guard and reigning 6th Man of the Year award winner Jamal Crawford is entering the last year of the 7 year, $55.44 million contract, but he’s not letting contract negotiations become a distraction to him.
At some point, LeBron/Durant debates are going to become inevitable, but one man thinks it’s a bit early to start comparing LeBron and Durant in earnest -- Kevin Durant.
During Washington Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld’s press conference earlier today, he announced that the Wizards will switch their official color scheme to red, white, and blue for the 2011-12 NBA season.
With Amar’e Stoudemire in New York, Leandro Barbosa in Toronto, and Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress joining the team, the Suns have made some major changes to their on-court personnel for next season.
The story of Quincy Douby’s agent acting improperly won’t get the attention of the Reggie Bush controversy, but Douby’s agent recently became one of the few sports agents to be successfully prosecuted for improper behavior.
Some interesting stuff here from FanHouse’s Kyle Stack, who recently published a piece on how the Timberwolves have been working with high-tech exercise and nutrition experts to help their players get into shape: There’s lots more in the full article -- click through for more examples of how far our understanding of athletic performance, the human body, and how it works has come in the last decade or so.
Here’s the report, courtesy of the San Francisco Business Times’ Eric Young: The sooner this saga can end and the Warriors’ ownership situation is completely resolved, the better.
Courtesy of the Portland Tribune’s Kerry Eggers, Here’s the latest on the talented but injury-plagued Blazers Center: Oden has been out since fracturing his left patella on December 5th, 2009.
Bango the deer captured the hearts of the NBA community last season with his death-defying antics and talent for terrorizing people in Al Horford jerseys.
Jeff Ma, the star of Ben Mezrich’s excellent non-fiction book Bringing Down The House (the book’s “Kevin Lewis” is, in reality, Ma), the founder of both Protrade.com and Citizen Sports, and the author of The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Vegas, has also done some consulting work with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Here’s a quick piece of info for fans of both the NBA and cartoons, courtesy of the Dallas Morning News’ Eddie Sefko: So a bunch of NBA players, including LeBron James, are going to visit Cleveland in order to get revenge on him for heckling.
