Six Teams Attend Dennis Smith’s Pro Day

At least six NBA teams were on hand to watch Dennis Smith’s Pro Day, sources told Basketball Insiders.

Jeff Hawkins  •  04 Oct 2023
Teams Win Best Of Seven 63.3% Of The Time

SportsBettingExperts.com used data from the three North American professional sports that play a ‘best of seven’ playoff series format. These are MLB baseball, NHL hockey and NBA basketball. First, we looked at the aggregate performance of teams in a 3-0 series across all sports. We found that the team leading 3-0 was a very strong […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Dec 2021
Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis Leg Injury Not Serious?

The 7-3 building block (Kristaps Porzingis)or the Knicks’ future had one arm around teammate Willy Hernangomez and the other around a trainer as he walked stiffly off the floor 29 seconds into the fourth quarter Tuesday night at the Garden. “It’s pretty stiff,” Porzingis said, sitting at his locker. “It’s stiffening up now. But it’s […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Brandon Jennings Officially Signs With Wizards

WIZARDS SIGN BRANDON JENNINGS Team Waives Danuel House Washington Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced today that the team has signed guard Brandon Jennings. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.  In addition, the team waived forward Danuel House. “Brandon gives us playmaking ability and experience at the guard position while adding another […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
NBA Announces 2017 Three-Point Shootout Participants

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2017 – Defending champion Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors and 2013 winner Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers lead the list of four NBA All-Stars who will showcase their shooting range in the 2017 JBL Three-Point Contest on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
NBA Announces 2017 Dunk Contest Participants

The Orlando Magic’s Aaron Gordon, last year’s runner-up, and NBA All-Star DeAndre Jordan of the LA Clippers will take flight in the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Gordon and Jordan are joined in the four-player field by Derrick Jones Jr. of the Phoenix Suns and […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
LeBron: Cavs Must ‘get out of the honeymoon stage’

If there ever was a time to be sure that the Cleveland Cavaliers’ epic three-game win streak to finish the NBA Finals and beat the Golden STate Warriors for the championship was a thing of a past, this week’s three-game losing streak — capped by a 111-105 defeat at the hands of the Chicago Bulls […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
D’Angelo Russell Expected To Miss 2-3 Weeks

The Los Angeles Lakers announced that point guard D’Angelo Russell is expected to miss a “minimum of two weeks” after receiving a PRP injection in his left knee this afternoon. Russell (16.1 PPG, 4.8 APG, 3.4 RPG in 2016-17) had missed two of the Lakers’ past three games and appeared to have limited mobility in […]

Jeff Hawkins  •  15 Oct 2021
Carlisle: Shooting Percentages Not That Important

Rick Carlisle isn’t concerned that new Mavs max player Harrison Barnes shot 26.7 percent from the floor in the preseason. “Shooting percentages have never been an important thing to me,” Carlisle said. Source: Tim MacMahon of ESPN

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021