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White Fires Back At Rockets
HOUSTON – While the ongoing spat between the Rockets and Royce White shows no sign of ending, neither does the rookie’s inclination to keep digging the hole deeper. After an insider told Jonathan...
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Pressure On Rivers To Find His Shot
HOUSTON — Everybody has a plan until they get hit. That’s what Mike Tyson used to say. When the Hornets made him the No. 10 pick in the draft, the plan was for Austin Rivers to settle in as Eric...
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Paul’s Words After Loss Could Raise Pressure On Clips’ Del Negro
It was, and will end up being, one of the more dizzying games of the season. Caron Butler making nine 3-pointers and the Clippers losing. The Hornets, down their two best players, Eric Gordon and...
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Eric Gordon And The World He Created
Jimmy Smith of the Times-Picayune and NOLA.com caught up with Eric Gordon a few days ago, wrote that Gordon reported progress in the recovery from the knee injury, and that there still is no timetable...
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Race For Rookie Of The Year Gets Interesting Again
The Hornets are 5-14 and can’t stop the ball, and it’s early enough in the season for a comeback. Yes, this still sets up nicely for Anthony Davis. He is back tonight and so is the race for Rookie of...
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The Chris Paul Trade, One Year Later
It’s obviously a happy anniversary around Clippers HQ. They’re winning, Chris Paul has been everything they hoped for in performance and personality and every indication is he will re-sign as a free...
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Stop The Floppers By Ignoring Them
HANG TIME, Texas – The shot that will get the big run on all the highlights shows and the most clicks on YouTube will, of course, be Damian Lillard’s frozen rope jumper with 0.3 seconds left that...
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Will Gordon Return Be Naughty Or Nice?
HANG TIME, Texas — Ho! Ho! Ho! Look who came down the chimney of the Hornets early on Christmas Eve. Guard Eric Gordon, who has been on the shelf all season due to problems with his right knee, took...
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Who’s Sitting On A Hot Seat Now?
– HANG TIME, Texas — Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. In the NBA that familiar line from the holiday classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” has a different twist. Every time the bell rings a...
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Hornets Cautious This Time With Gordon
HOUSTON – More than an hour before tipoff, Eric Gordon was out on the Toyota Center court with his teammates, spinning left, moving right, pulling up on the dribble and firing jumpers. Some hit the...
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Green And White Fly Slam Dunk Colors
HANG TIME, Texas — The last time James White and Gerald Green were in a slam dunk contest together, they practically blew the roof off with a 2010 Russian Cup performance that’s become a YouTube cult...
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The Hunted: Warriors, Rockets & Jazz
. It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs. We will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone — Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Denver…whoever. – Kobe Bryant Over his 17 seasons in the NBA,...
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Does Kobe Have One Foot Out Door?
. HANG TIME, Texas – There’s never a shortage of funny stuff being tossed around on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” But Kobe Bryant didn’t seem to be joking when he told the host and that he would be retiring...
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Defense Grew Rockets’ 22-Game Streak
HOUSTON — As far as seismic shifts in the landscape go, there was no tremor, no low rumble of an earthquake’s warning and it never hit with the fiery blast of a volcanic eruption. When the Rockets...
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All That Jazz Puts Heat on Lakers
HANG TIME, Texas — As Dean Wormer might have once said to Flounder in “Animal House”: “Losing nine out of 11 games is no way to make the playoffs, son.” But here are the Jazz, back up and dancing like...
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Hornets Get Mixed Medical Updates
h SACRAMENTO, Calif. – This was finally the night the Hornets would get encouraging news on the injury front, a positive update in the moment and for the future. Eric Gordon was playing both ends of a...
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Playoffs Snapshot — April 12
Here’s a look at some of the more important playoff implications in Friday night’s games: LAKERS (vs. Golden State, 10:30 p.m. ET, League Pass): With the battle for the eighth and final spot in the...
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Sixth Man Of The Year: J.R. Smith
. The oddest part about this season’s race for the Sixth Man of the Year Award is that there are probably a half-dozen candidates worthy of consideration. A voter could close his eyes and take a stab...
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Game 7: Legacy On The Line For Wade?
. Heat vs. Pacers: Series hub HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – One game doesn’t make a legacy. One play, one moment, in one game, in one season does not make or break a career. So why does it feel like there...
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‘Bobcats’ On Chopping Block At Owners’ Meeting
a Your browser does not support iframes. a LAS VEGAS – A town long known for its menagerie of snakes, weasels, fat cats and whales likely will be adding a new species Thursday: Bobcats. Hey, what...
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