Nothing about Brandon Ingram’s career has been equitable for him. He came into the league with unbelievably high expectations, then finished his rookie season dead last in the entire league in NBA Math’s TPA metric. Rookies tend to be bad, so this isn’t shocking by any
Some lessons are learned the hard way. The Washington Wizards front office knows this well after offering former star Gilbert Arenas a six-year, $111 million contract in 2008 that now ranks as one of the worst contracts in NBA history. “What I did to get
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Eric Bledsoe is finally, mercifully, at long last, on the move. As first reported by ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe and Adrian Wojnarowski, the Phoenix Suns traded the exiled point guard to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday in exchange for Greg Monroe’s expiring deal, a
In 1979, a young rookie out of Michigan State took the NBA by storm. Listed at 6’9″, Magic Johnson had the ability to play center and, on the very next possession, direct the offense as a point guard and see the court in a way shorter
DALLAS — Nobody said being a teenager in the NBA was going to be easy. But Dennis Smith Jr., the Dallas Mavericks’ 19-year-old rookie point guard, sure made it look like a breeze in his professional debut against the Atlanta Hawks, tallying 16 points (on
Never a team to shy away from controversy, the New York Knicks find themselves back in the spotlight to start the 2017-18 season. Despite a complete roster overhaul this offseason, they kicked things off with a disastrous 0-3 start, which was met with rumors head
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale If only every absurdly hot start to the 2017-18 NBA season could last forever. Sadly, though, life on the hardwood doesn’t work like that. Some blistering beginnings are for real. Others? Not so much. They’re protracted smokescreens—players and teams capitalizing on fiery streaks
Only two weeks have flown by since the 2017-18 NBA season started. But much like the offseason, each day seems packed with a week’s worth of action. The Cleveland Cavaliers look terrible defensively, the Gordon Hayward-less Boston Celtics are surging, the Golden State Warriors aren’t