The weeks immediately after the NBA Finals are concluded aren’t really an offseason for the NBA. The draft usually takes place within about a week of the last game and then you go into the free agent signing period and the NBA summer leagues in Orlando and Las Vegas. Now that the summer leagues are [...]
It didn’t take long last night for Portland’s management to reveal that the team was interested in acquiring Orlando forward Hedo Turkoglu. GM Kevin Pritchard called Turkoglu as soon as it was allowed and it looks like a trip to Portland is in Turkoglu’s immediate future. Now we’ll have to wait and see if Portland [...]
NBA teams are allowed to start wooing free agents at midnight tonight, Eastern time. Players won’t be able to sign actual contracts for another week, but they can certainly reach agreements with teams. That brings us to the question of what Portland will be doing tonight at 9:01 PDT. According to the reports floating all [...]
Wilt Chamberlain used to say that no one roots for Goliath and he certainly had a point. But there is one Goliath in the league today that it’s awfully hard not to like, Yao Ming. The Chinese giant has been everything the Houston Rockets could have hoped when they made him the No. 1 pick [...]
If Portland is going to really improve its roster this summer, trades and free agent signings will have to be the tools because the draft did not provide the answer. It looks like the first-round pick, Spanish forward Victor Claver, will be staying in Europe for at least a year. I like the pick of [...]
The NBA draft is just two days away now and there are all kinds of rumors floating around the Internet. There is no question the Blazers are trying to make a deal, either to move up in the draft from their spot at No. 24 or to acquire a veteran player. Owner Paul Allen was [...]
I wanted Los Angeles to win Sunday night, not because I was rooting for them but because I just wanted it to be over with. Orlando could have made this a real series with wins in either of the two overtime games, but they didn’t. The Lakers hit big shots and the Magic couldn’t shoot [...]
