NBA News and Rumors

Written by Mike Page on March 8, 2022

We’ve been seeing a lot of 50-point nights lately in the NBA. A couple of weeks ago, it was Luka Doncic and Ja Morant hitting the half-century mark, and LeBron James turned back the clock to drop 56 on Golden State in a comeback win. On Sunday, Boston got 54 out of Jayson Tatum against Brooklyn. Khris Middleton got close, Read More

Written by Mike Page on March 7, 2022

The trade between the Dallas Mavericks and the Washington Wizards seems to have paid off for both teams. The Mavericks got 36 points out Spencer Dinwiddie, who started in place of injured Luka Doncic on Saturday, in a 114-113 comeback win over Sacramento. Dinwiddie also had a huge fourth quarter in the Mavericks’ comeback win over Golden State on Thursday. Read More

Written by Mike Page on March 3, 2022

The Lakers and Clippers have shared the Los Angeles market since 1984, when the Clippers moved up Interstate 5 from San Diego to play in L.A. For the first three decades of the Clippers’ tenure, they struggled, while the Lakers were regularly contenders and champions. The roles flipped a bit between 2013 and 2019, as the Clippers became a contender Read More

Written by Mike Page on March 1, 2022

Are the Chicago Bulls for real? They sit second in the NBA’s Eastern Conference standings, two games behind Miami with two games in hand, but their record against playoff contenders is disproportionately poor. Also, their average margin of victory (+1.9) is the second-worst among the top seven teams in the conference. It will be interesting to see where they move Read More

Written by Mike Page on February 21, 2022

The behind-the-scenes angling for veteran free-agent guard Goran Dragic has come to an end, as Dragic has signed a deal for the remainder of the 2021-22 NBA season with the Brooklyn Nets. He started the year with Toronto and then got shipped to San Antonio at the trade deadline. The Spurs bought out his contract, and such teams as the Read More

Written by Mike Page on February 16, 2022

The biggest news from last week’s NBA trade deadline was the blockbuster swap between Eastern Conference contenders that saw the Brooklyn Nets break up its “Big Three,” sending James Harden to Philadelphia for Ben Simmons. Sixers GM Daryl Morey had gotten some heat for holding onto Simmons for so long, but his strategy of waiting for another star on another Read More

Written by Mike Page on February 14, 2022

The Dallas Mavericks (33-24) visit the Miami Heat (37-20) in NBA action on Tuesday night. This is a rematch of the 2006 and 2011 NBA Finals; the Heat won in 2006, while the Mavericks won the title five years later. The Heat won the first matchup this season in Dallas, rolling to a 125-110 win; the most important quarter in Read More

Written by Mike Page on February 7, 2022

We’re approaching the last third of the 2021-22 NBA regular season, and we’re also at the regular season trade deadline. C.J. McCollum has been dealt from Portland to New Orleans, where he is unlikely to get much closer to a title than he would have with the Trail Blazers, while the Pelicans shipped away the promising Josh Hart. We’re waiting Read More

Written by Mike Page on January 26, 2022

The topsy-turvy Eastern Conference continues to make for fascinating viewing in the NBA. Miami has taken advantage of the Bulls’ dropping seven of ten to move into first place in the conference, but only two games separate first place from sixth place in the conference. After that, it drops off just 2 ½ more games to seventh-place Charlotte. The blue Read More