The most veteran player on the Oklahoma City Thunder is Nazr Mohammed – by three years. At 6’10”, 250 lbs from Kentucky, Mohammed has been in the NBA for 12 years. In those years he has been with seven teams […]
Author: Matt Johnston
Rapid Reaction: Heat beat Bulls, take 2-1 series lead
The Heat, in their first game in Miami for these Eastern Conference Finals, defeated the Chicago Bulls Sunday night 96 – 85. The Heat take a 2-1 lead in the series and improve to an impressive 7-0 at home in […]
Top-seeded Syracuse upset by Maryland
With a trip to the tournament final four on the line, the number one seeded Syracuse Orange lost 6 – 5 to the Maryland Terrapins in Overtime on Sunday afternoon in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Grant Catalino sunk the ball in the […]
Rapid Reaction: Heat even the series 1-1 in Chicago
After 3 days of Bulls-worship and constant questions about Miami’s potential to even make this series close, The Heat reminded everyone why they’re here in the first place by beating the Chicago Bulls 85 – 75 tonight in Chicago. Miami […]
Looking Ahead to Game 2: Heat vs. Bulls
I was just one of a chorus of voices that thought the Heat were going to come into these Eastern Conference Finals ready, willing, and able to rip the Chicago Bulls to shreds. Chicago had a difficult time with two […]
Looking Ahead: NBA Western Conference Finals – Dallas vs. Oklahoma City
May 8th. That is the last time the Dallas Mavericks stepped on the court for a playoff game in 2011. That was the contest which saw The Mavericks blowing out the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers 122 – 98 […]
Looking Ahead to Game 1: Bulls vs. Heat
The Eastern Conference Finals are finally upon us and after all the trials and tribulations the playoffs have given us, we are left with the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the East: The Chicago Bulls and the Miami […]
Durant’s Struggles
To say that Kevin Durant is having problems in these Western Conference Semi-Finals would be an understatement. The NBA’s 2010 – 2011 scoring leader has been anything but effective, and sometimes nearly invisible. In 78 games with his Oklahoma City […]
Rapid Reaction: Grizzlies force a Game 7
The Memphis Grizzlies live to see another day with a 95-83 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night. Once again, Oklahoma City was unable to put together 48 minutes of their best basketball, and Memphis surged coming out […]
Looking Ahead: OKC’s bid to knock off The Grizz
The Oklahoma City Thunder will try – desperately try – to finish out the Memphis Grizzlies in Tennessee tonight at 9pm EST. Why Desperately? Because The Grizzlies, the 8th seed in the West, have not made these Western Conference Semi-Finals […]