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Chicago Bulls – Don’t Need Derrick Rose & Joakim Noah
Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau keeps telling his players that regardless of who’s playing – Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose, or Nate Robinson, Luol Deng, Carlos Boozer and Jimmy Butler, they have what it takes to win every night, against anyone. Most of the time, they seem to actually believe his preaching
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Miami Heat – LeBron James So Good It’s Almost Boring
The Miami Heat were playing without Dwyane Wade. So what? LeBron James just takes his game up a notch, almost gets his fifth triple double of the season while leading his team to a 26th consecutive win, while everything looks too easy for him and his teammates, simply enjoying the magical ride they seem to be on.
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NCAA Tournament – Two Cinderellas in the Sweet Sixteen
We do have plenty of favorites, including Indiana and Kansas, not having too many problems in advancing to the Sweet Sixteen, but some favorites have fallen along the way, as Florida Gulf Coast continue their incredible run by knocking off San Diego State, while La Salle left out the SEC champions, Ole Miss, out of the competition as well, making everyone remember they used to be one of the best teams in the nation 60 years ago.
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Stop the LeBron James to Cleveland Cavaliers Rumors
Sometimes speculation is based on something a player or a member of a team’s front office says or hints at. Other times, it’s just the media trying to make something out of nothing. LeBron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014? It’s the latter, and it simply doesn’t make sense.
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Kentucky Wildcats – A Nine Pro Players Team in 2014
Ranked recruiting classes by ESPN, Rivals and others don’t always pan out the way they should, but they give you a general idea of how good a freshman class is going to be. Kentucky, despite the very disappointing 2013 they’ve had, have landed another impressive one. With Julius Randle committing to the school for next season, they now have the Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 18 players in the ESPN 100.
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Los Angeles Clippers – Chris Paul Fourth Quarter Heroics Won’t be Enough Later on
Despite all of their improvements and all of their depth, the Los Angeles Clippers remain a team that is almost completely reliant on Chris Paul to come up with the scoring in the final minutes while everyone else simply takes a step backs and hopes everything turns out well. In the regular season it’s mostly been working fine for them, but come the playoffs, it won’t be enough to get the Clippers further than ever before.
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Denver Nuggets – George Karl Doesn’t Want Things to Slow Down
With a winning streak that’s at 15 now, you’d expect George Karl to take it a little bit easier going into the final stretch of the season; cut his players some slack. But that’s not how you keep a young team without a clear superstar to fall back on when things don’t go great on its edge, hopefully lasting the last few weeks of the season in the same place they are now in the Western Conference.
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Chicago Bulls – Luol Deng Finally Remembers to Play Well
After losing three consecutive times to the Indiana Pacers in rough, physical games, the Chicago Bulls, despite not playing with Joakim Noah, arguably their best player this season, found a way to beat a team that’s very similar to them, only better in almost every aspect. How? Luol Deng actually showed up offensively, as the idea of playing without a point guard has to be crossing the mind of Tom Thibodeau.
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Boston Celtics – Things are Falling Apart (Again)
Suffering a fourth consecutive loss, making a short three-game road trip as a complete failure, any thoughts of the Boston Celtics being a team capable of making any sort of splash in the postseason after certain promising stretches in the previous month seem to going out the window, regardless of the excuses Doc Rivers makes up for his untalented team
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NCAA Tournament – The First Number One Seed to Say Goodbye
If there was one number seed everyone was predicting to make an early exit, it had to be Gonzaga. So according to the script, the Bulldogs fell against ninth seed Wichita State, leaving Ohio State as the favorite in the West Regional. Other than that, upsets weren’t really a popular thing on day 3 of the tournament, as Louisville had no problem excreting their top seed status, while both Michigan and Michigan State enjoyed easy games in their Round of 32 games.