Articles by Jeff Hawkins (9824)
Phil Jackson says he’s not interested in coaching again… Isiah Thomas rumors denied by Pistons… Ben Gordon unlikely to be signed after being waived by the Bobcats.
HOUSTON — If the Houston Rockets left any doubt of their status as championship contenders with their white-knuckle victory over the two-time champion Miami Heat on Wednesday night, they silenced them by drubbing the Indiana Pacers 112-86 on Friday night at the Toyota Center. Rockets guard James Harden scored 16 of his 28 points during […]
Eleven NBA championships isn’t enough for Phil Jackson. Apparently he wants an even dozen now. After leading the Chicago Bulls to six NBA crowns and the Los Angeles Lakers to five, Jackson is “ready to go back to work,” according to ESPN.com. After several health battles, Jackson is apparently fit and ready to get back […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Old Dominion guard Aaron Bacote and UAB guard Chad Frazier had strikingly similar numbers heading into Thursday night’s Conference USA matchup at Bartow Arena. But Frazier was decidedly better in the Blazers’ 75-66 victory. Frazier led UAB with 27 points, nearly 10 more than his season average of 17.7 per game. He […]
NEW ORLEANS — Reserve shooting guard Anthony Morrow scored 20 of his season-high 27 points in the first half and forward Darius Miller, playing emergency point guard, hit five of his career-high 16 points in the final 2:46 to lift the short-handed New Orleans Pelicans to a 98-96 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on […]
Matt John begins Basketball Insiders’ Looking Back series by taking a look at which first overall picks since 2009 were hits, misses or somewhere in between.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dayton used superior depth to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in 30 years with an 82-72 victory over Stanford on Thursday night in the NCAA South Regional semifinals at FedExForum.“It was a true team effort,” Dayton coach Archie Miller said after his bench outscored the Stanford bench 34-2 […]
SAN ANTONIO — Late in the first half of the Wednesday’s game, San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili fell to the ground, causing an anxious moment. Was Ginobili, who missed eight games this season with a hamstring injury, hurt again? As it turned out, the only damage was to the basketball shoe that blew out […]
Guard Duke Mondy hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer as time expired to lift Oakland to a 76-75 Horizon League victory over Illinois-Chicago on Saturday at the O’Rena in Rochester, Mich. The successful shot erased a 75-73 Flames lead secured by a pair of guard Pat Birt free throws with four seconds left in regulation and sent […]
WICHITA, Kan. — Heading into its game against the Drake Bulldogs, the Wichita State Shockers were ranked 17th nationally in team defense. After the Shockers’ defensive performance Saturday night, that ranking is bound to climb. No. 3 Wichita State held Drake to 42 percent shooting and forced 20 turnovers in their 83-54 victory at Charles […]