Last season’s NBA Most Improved Player, Danny Granger, is going to be out for at least 4 weeks with a torn right plantar fascia.  For those of you who don’t know that is, it’s  the tissue that attaches the heel of the foot to the toes.  Sounds scary.  Granger won’t need surgery but he will need to rest and rehab for the next 4 weeks.  Granger has been playing with a bad heel for almost the entire season; you would think if maybe he sat out a few games in the …

Portland Trail Blazer’s center Greg Oden is likely done for the year, again, with a fractured left patella.  Oden jumped up on Saturday to block a layup attempt by Aaron Brooks of the Rockets and when he planted and jumped that is when the fracture occurred.  He never made contact with Brooks according to the replay.  Oden went down immediately and you just KNEW it was going to be bad.  

This will make the 2nd time in his 3 year career that Oden will miss the entire season; his rookie year he missed the …

He’s back. I’m not talking about the classic ‘Alice Cooper’ song, but instead the return of one of the greatest small guards to ever play the game…Allen Iverson. Not only is A.I. back, but he’s back in Philly where he belongs. When Duts broke the news earlier this morning, instead of adding to his information like I was supposed to do (as the staff Sixers’ fan), I was busy looking up YouTube videos of A.I.’s greatness, while bumping his classic hip hop hit, ’40 Bars.’ Allen is scheduled to play …

In not surprising news, the Nets General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe will fire Head Coach Lawrence Frank if they lose, correction, when they lose to the LA Lakers tonight and tie the worst start of a season in NBA history. Despite all of the losses, blame should not be solely put on Frank due to constant injury problems and tough schedule, second toughest to the Chicago Bulls. They have lost 4 games by three points or less, and two of them by heartbreaking buzzer beaters.
On the other side, they have not …

Lou Williams was having an oustanding year thus far for the Sixers.  He was there go-to-guy and is the leading scorer on the team.  Last year his role significantly increased on the team but this year he knew his role and that was SCORE any means possible.  Lou Williams broke his jaw on November 24th vs. the Celtics which will put him on the self for 6-8 weeks.  This is a huge loss for the Sixers because they looked lost half the time on offense and that’s when Sweet Lou …

On the day of thanks, we all should be happy to spend time with our family, drink a little too much wine, build up a Christmas lists for Black Friday’s shopping nightmare, and of course, watch big time NBA match-ups while devouring an immense amount of turkey meat and stuffing.
Today, the NBA is graciously supplying us with two great games , and due to yours truly, will preview these Holiday match-ups:
8:00pm TNT
Magic at Hawks

Athleticism vs. Power
In a NBAtoday.net podcast game preview, The surging Hawks (11-3) host the Magic …

As if the Wizards season isn’t going bad enough, by starting 3-9, now their owner Abe Pollin passed away today.  The cause of death wasn’t released at this particular time but Pollin suffered from supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disorder that affects movement and balance.  Pollin bought the Baltimore Bullets 45 years ago and in 1973 moved them to Washington and into the Capital Centre, the arena Pollin and his construction company had built. 
Pollin was also responsible for changing the name of the Washington Bullets to the Washington Wizards.  There was a name …