Welcome back to Swishes with Sampson, where I glance around the NBA and pick out five things I particularly enjoyed (or didn’t enjoy) over the past week. I’m a man who plays by my own set of rules (don’t tell my wife I said that),
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Now that the 2017-18 NBA season has eked pasts its quarter-pole mark, rumor has it we’re free to hand out report grades for every team. So, you know, let’s do that! Hardwood Knocks will begin with the Western Conference’s jumble of craziness. And
Tyson Chandler and DeAndre Jordan. They’re the go-to examples of a distinctive NBA archetype: the athletic center who patrols the paint on defense and rolls to the rim on offense. They’re also the players to whom scouts and analysts compared Willie Cauley-Stein ahead of the
iTunes | BlogTalkRadio | Stitcher | Google Play (coming soon) @HardwoodKnocks | @AndrewDBailey | @DanFavale Let’s pour one out for the Sacramento Kings’ annual failed pursuit of a playoff berth they had no business pursuing in the first place, shall we? In furtherance of the post-DeMarcus Cousins era, the Kings spent the offseason neither
How does every NBA player stack up heading into 2017-18, based solely on the level at which we expect them to play during the upcoming season? That’s the question 16 NBA Math staff members and contributors sought to answer, ranking each and every player in
The 2016 NBA draft saw the Sacramento Kings trade down in the first round (from the eighth pick) to acquire two first-rounders from the Phoenix Suns, resulting in the drafting of Georgios Papagiannis and Skal Labissiere. Of course, the Kings were blasted for adding two
As the offseason winds down, the feeling NBA fans have shifts to one of hope. Regardless of what happened during the last spell, or in the summer, each fan has aspirations for their team’s success. Not all optimism is warranted. Take the Indiana Pacers. They
Do you remember the NBA in 2011? LeBron James was dominating the league, the San Antonio Spurs won 61 games and Chris Paul lost in the first round of the playoffs. All these story lines could apply to both the 2010-11 and 2016-17 seasons, yet