Category: NBA Basketball

It was quite disrespectful the way the NBA shunned Mark Jackson.  Golden State Warrior fans felt he deserved an award. Jackson struggled like Lebron’s hairline in his first season. The next TWO years, Mark’s dedication to basketball lead the Warriors to the playoffs twice in a row.  In the offseason Mark was fired and replaced by rookie coach Steve Kerr.  Fans were stunned.  Joe Lacob, the plantation’s owner, held no punches reflecting his reasons why. “Right now, (Kerr) looks great,” Lacob said at the Western Association of Venture Capitalists/National Venture…

Jason Lloyd of the Akron Beacon Journal has an update from Sunday on Love’s status based on what he’s heard from executives around the Association: Love is unlikely to sign long term this summer because of the salary cap. He is expected to opt out of his current contract at the end of the season for cap purposes, but he might only sign a one-year deal to line up for what is expected to be a significant cap spike in the summer of 2016. Love has said all the right…

After a short stay in Brooklyn, Paul Pierce is heading to the Washington Wizards. Sources close to the process told ESPN that Pierce has committed to sign a two-year, $11 million deal with the Wizards, who moved swiftly to find a title-tested replacement for Trevor Ariza after Ariza struck an agreement earlier in the day to join theHouston Rockets.   Geoff Burke/USA TODAY SportsPaul Pierce will join a Wizards team that moved quickly to reach a deal with the veteran forward after losing Trevor Ariza to the Rockets.   The contract, sources said, has a player option after…

When Phil Jackson didn’t get his Plan A (Steve Kerr), a renewed coaching search brought Derek Fisher to the top. Jackson patiently waited for Fisher to finish playing for the Thunder, who made a lengthy playoff run with him as their backup point guard. Finally, Fisher and Jackson spoke – and this negotiation didn’t last as long as the Knicks’ with Kerr. New York needn’t worry about finding a Plan C. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports: Derek Fisher is finalizing an agreement on a 5-year, $25 million deal to become the Knicks coach, league sources tell Yahoo.— Adrian…

A baby can smell sabotage a mile away.  If you’ve never been to Texas, you cannot imagine the breath taking humidity, 90 degrees will do to your scalp.  San Antonio Spurs pulled a Solange.  They beat the ‘sizzling pride’ from Lebron James, and the Miami Heat.  Game 1 of the NBA Playoff FINALS was plagued by a mysterious ‘broken’ air conditioner.  In the wake of Donald Sterling’s racist rants, we can’t believe the NBA allowed the champion athletes to risk their lives.     A power failure for the electrical systems…

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Did Scott Sterling’s mysterious suicide have anything to do with his dad, Donald T. Sterling’s, twisted views of human beings?  Did Shelly Sterling bail because of his alleged  lust for well endowed, young, black men?  Legal documents insist Donald is a secret cock lover.  He’d bring women into the locker room, and gush  ‘Look at those beautiful black bodies.’   His latest fling, V. Stiviano, blasted the Clippers owner for being a racist.  As if NBA legend, Elgin Baylor, didn’t try to tell us long ago, TMZ obtained video proving Donald’s disgust for the…

  Former NBA player Eric Williams — who spent 12 seasons in league — says he is homeless and broke … this according to legal docs obtained by TMZ Sports. Williams — who also appeared on “Basketball Wives” — made the shocking statements in a letter he wrote to a Colorado court recently explaining why he could not attend a child support hearing in CO earlier this month. Among the reasons, Williams says a “court-ordered citation for me to appear was not delivered to my home address as I have no home.” LipStickAlley has…