Tag: Josh Smith

  • NBA Season Preview: Best Power Forwards

    NBA Season Preview: Best Power Forwards

    When it comes to pure power forwards, or more accurately, players who can’t or hardly will play as centers, there’s not perfect player or complete package. Each flawed in his own way, Josh Smith, Blake Griffin, Pau Gasol, LaMarcus Aldridge and above all Kevin Love consist of the best in the position among NBA players.

  • NBA Season Preview: All-Southeast Division Team

    NBA Season Preview: All-Southeast Division Team

    A division that is about one team, that also concentrates most of the individual talent in it. The Miami Heat, the NBA champions, with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. It also has the worst team in the NBA, the Charlotte Bobcats, who probably won’t look much better this season.

  • Best NBA Players With No All-Star Appearance

    Best NBA Players With No All-Star Appearance

    Is the NBA All-Star an absolute indicator of a players’ ability? To an extent, but it’s half a popularity contest among NBA fans and somewhat of the same among NBA head coaches. For John Wall, Brandon Jennings and Ty Lawson it’s about a loaded position; for Al Jefferson it’s about playing for unpopular teams. For Monta Ellis and Josh Smith? Actually, that’s a bit harder to explain.

  • Early Look at Unrestricted NBA Free Agents in 2013

    The summer of 2013 is going to be about the big men; the centers heading into free agency, with some of the league’s best entering the final year of their contracts. Along with them, with Dwight Howard being the obvious headline grabber, there’s Chris Paul to steal a bit of spotlight in the same city as the best players on the 2013 free agency.

  • London 2012 – 5 Players Who Should Be on the USA Dream Team

    Did the 12 best players in the NBA get into the 2012 Summer Olympics Team? Probably, considering all the injuries, which included Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. But with both LeBron James and Kevin Durant on the team, maybe both Carmelo Anthony and Andre Iguodala wasn’t necessary.

  • 10 Best Dunks of the 2011-2012 NBA Season

    Blake Griffin, despite being in a shortened season, pulled off enough impressive dunks and alley oops to fill a top 10 list on his own, but you have to give some other guys, like LeBron James, Josh Smith and Gerald Green their fair share of the posterizing spotlight.

  • Dwight Howard Trade Off the Rumor Mill

    Dwight Howard has decided to end the talk around his potential trade, announcing he’ll stay with the Orlando Magic till the end of the season. What started out looking like an obvious case of a superstar wanting out of a overachieving small-market franchise changed into Howard saying he’ll finish the season with the Magic, potentially opting out of his contract in the summer, becoming a free agent.

  • Josh Smith in a Rare Showing of His Full Potential Takes Down Thunder

    Josh Smith and the Atlanta Hawks have already beaten the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat this season, so it was only natural they’d have at least one win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Josh Smith was huge with 30 points and 12 rebounds, while performing one memorable dunk Serge Ibaka will not forget for a long time.

  • Derrick Rose Just Getting Better and Better

    The MVP headlines and chants are getting a bit old, especially now that he’s actually won it. Watching Derrick Rose drop 44 on the Hawks in Atlanta en route to a 99-82 Chicago Bulls win in Game 3 to take a 2-1 lead isn’t.

  • Top Ten Dunks of the 2010-2011 NBA Season

    Playoffs are almost here, awards are going to be handed out, and we’re beginning our rounds with the top 10 dunks of the season with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, J.R. Smith and of course Blake Griffin joined by others.