Keeping it Real Sports

Is it over yet? (head peeks out from under bed) Are they done? Has the dust finally settled? Well shucks, I wish I could answer that question, but NBA free agency has long been one of the craziest sporting events of the year. Within the course of a few days, the entire league was flipped on its head, and we are now faced with more parity than seemingly ever-before. All-Star duos have flocked to every corner of the county, and other teams have done their part to remain competi

So here we are, another Warriors Finals trip secured (but finally against a fresh face). The Toronto Raptors, just a few months after the organization was ripped to shreds for trading away star DeMar Derozan for superstar Kawhi Leonard, have clinched their first NBA Finals appearance in franchise history, a huge achievement that deserves a ton of recognition, especially for new head coach Nick Nurse but the players and front office as well. Now while Vegas has opened the Warr

The Bucks are trampling through the East and the Warriors are cruising through the West; what’s new this season? On the Bucks’ side, nothing really. But for the Warriors, there is an unfamiliar hole in the starting lineup, one created by the strained right calf of superstar (and Playoff killer) Kevin Durant. Durant suffered the injury in the third quarter of Game 5 in Houston - a game the Warriors went on to win, and a series they would clinch in the next game. Now, as the Wa

A new format of post here, let’s look at all the dramatic team storylines from around the NBA and grade them on a 1 (no worries) to 5 (press the red button) scale. Washington Wizards: 5-10, 11th in Eastern Conference Roster mismanagement has finally caught up with the Wizards and it’s getting ugly. Marcin Gortat for Austin Rivers was a bad trade on paper and it has looked even worse on the court, where Doc’s son continues to bobble around while Marcin is marchin’ in L.A. John

As one Conference Finals is set to go to Game 7 and the other appears destined to follow suit, we have seen somewhat of an oddity when it comes to late-stage playoffs: bad basketball. Each of the four teams that remain have certainly had their share of troubles, and it leaves us with a rather interesting rest of the playoffs. Will the Warriors return to former glory? Will LeBron have to carry the Cavs to a title? Will the rising Celtics figure out their road woes? And will th

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Conference Championships in the NBA Playoffs, so why don’t I take a shot at predicting how those (and the ensuing Finals) will turn out? And while the chic picks may be the Celtics and the Rockets, I would tend to think otherwise… Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Boston Celtics Listen, no one wants the Celtics to win this series more than me, but the unfortunate truth is they face the best player in the NBA (who also happens to be the best team-carr

Oh Russell Westbrook. You sly dog. You knew this would happen all along, didn’t you? We were all just innocent bystanders witnessing the finessing of the ages going on behind our backs, slowly churning for a year then BAM! popping up in the public eye like another hurricane. Let us not forget the brains behind the operation, Thunder GM Sam Presti. I am well aware that one of my recent articles demolished rather than built up an NBA GM, but this one is quite different. I actua