NBA Basketball
The Sports Watchers talk NBA basketball throughout the regular season and the NBA playoffs.Knicks Don’t Have Game, They’ve Got Problems
Before I go right into the numbers, let me just explain to you why the New York Knicks are not any good at basketball. First of all, their coach, Mike D’Antoni, doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing. He lets his players take whatever shots he wants, there seems to be no rhyme or reason [...]
The NBA is Back…And So is the Offseason!
The NBA is set to start in a couple of weeks, and it sounds as if everybody wants to trade everybody before the 2012 season tips off on Christmas Day. Some reports have Dwight Howard moving, Chris Paul traded and there’s even a Greg Oden sighting. So what are some of the more realistic scenarios [...]
NBA One on One: Dwight Howard vs. LeBron James
I don’t want to get in the habit of comparing two players of different positions too often, but inevitably, this is a part of the NBA that is unlike almost anything else in team sports. After all, in basketball, each position comes with its inherit strengths and weaknesses. Centers get rebounds but can’t dribble. Point [...]
NBA One on One: A Look At ESPN’s NBARank
November 2, 2011 by Uzo Ometu
Filed under NBA, The Featured Sports
If you are a true fan of the NBA and the ESPN (and let’s face it, with the lockout and all, there are few of us left) then you and your friends had to be among the thousands of people screaming at ESPN’s Ranking of every single player in an NBA uniform. My friends and [...]
NBA Lockout: What Are the Agents Out To Get?
October 6, 2011 by The Sports Watchers
Filed under NBA, The Featured Sports
The NBA lockout is at full gear now. Once you reach a point where business men begin finger-pointing, you know the talks are heating up. And we definitively reached the point of finger-pointing a couple days ago, when NBA commissioner David Stern literally pointed a finger at Dwyane Wade. Wade admonished Stern for doing so, [...]
NBA Lockout Gameplan: Players Should Go Overseas
July 12, 2011 by The Sports Watchers
Filed under NBA, The Featured Sports
We were doing our best to refrain from lockout talk on TheSportsWatchers.com… until now. But we just couldn’t help ourselves. However, recent transactions have made it abundantly clear how the players can get some leverage in the NBA labor talks and bring the owners closer to their side of the debate. Quite frankly, this idea [...]
