Articles by Joe Lyons (166)
We have reached the halfway mark of the 2022-23 NBA season, with voting pools for each of the end of season awards beginning to take shape such as Most Improved Player. In 2022, Ja Morant won the Most Improved Player award by a landslide, beating out former San Antonio Spurs guard Dejounte Murray, Cleveland Cavaliers […]
We have reached the halfway mark of the 2022-23 NBA season, with voting pools for each of the end of season awards beginning to take shape such as 6th Man of the Year. In 2022, Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro took home the award after an impressive season averaging 20.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.0 […]
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has denied lying claims after Jalen Ramsey asked him on about a recent internet fiasco during Thursday Night Football. LeBron has appeared to lie on multiple occasions dating back to 2010, which the internet has dug up and now presented to the rest of the world on social media. […]
Boston Celtics guard and NBPA Vice President Jaylen Brown has spoken out in support of former teammate Kyrie Irving, who has been suspended by the Brooklyn Nets for sharing anti-Semitic material on Twitter. Brown, 26, told Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe that the players union is ‘not comfortable with the conditions placed by the […]
Boston Celtics have picked up guard Payton Pritchard’s team option for the 2023-24 season, according to a report. According to The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach, the Celtics have re-signed Pritchard through the 2023-24 season following a successful spell with the team since 2020. The 24-year-old has featured in two of Boston’s five regular season games […]
Jayson Tatum’s brand-new signature shoe with Jordan Brand will release in March 2023, according to the player. In June 2019, Jayson Tatum agreed to a multi-year shoe contract with Michael Jordan’s ‘Jordan Brand,’ leaving the parent Nike company to team up with the likes of Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony at Jordan. The […]
Paul George has spoken out in defence of former teammate and Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook, saying the 2017 MVP is one of the best players of all-time. George, 32, spent two seasons playing with Westbrook at the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2017-19 and went head-to-head with his former backcourt partner on Thursday night. […]
Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has spoken out on his opening night scuffle with Joel Embiid, claiming he ‘could’ve cracked his head open, but didn’t’. Early in the third quarter, Embiid appeared to intentionally pull Smart’s arm after collecting a rebound which led to last season’s Defensive Player of the Year grabbing at Embiid’s leg. […]
Russell Westbrook will play as the Los Angeles Lakers’ sixth man in their final preseason game against the Sacramento Kings tonight, according to reports. The Lakers are planning to bring the former MVP off the bench in tonight’s final preseason game away in Sacramento with Westbrook ‘quarterbacking the second unit’. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, […]
FiveThirtyEight have published their predictions for the 2022-23 NBA season, which tips the Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets to reach the finals. The model is based on FiveThirtyEight‘s RAPTOR-based forecast with 50,000 simulations of the rest of the season. The player-based RAPTOR forecast doesn’t account for wins and losses; it is based entirely on NBA […]