Wilt Chamberlain retired after the 1972-73 season as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kobe Bryant have since passed Chamberlain, and two players are poised to knock Chamberlain further down the list this season. Those players, of course, are LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, who continue to defy Father …
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Wilt Chamberlain retired after the 1972-73 season as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kobe Bryant have since passed Chamberlain, and two players are poised to knock Chamberlain further down the list this season. Those players, of course, are LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, who continue to defy Father …
Read more “Individual milestones within reach during 2018-19 season”
Wilt Chamberlain retired after the 1972-73 season as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kobe Bryant have since passed Chamberlain, and two players are poised to knock Chamberlain further down the list this season. Those players, of course, are LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, who continue to defy Father …
Read more “Individual milestones within reach during 2018-19 season”
NBA.com’s John Schuhmann gets you ready for the 2018-19 season with a key stat for each team in the league and shows you why it matters. Today, we look at the New York Knicks, who were still mired in the mid-range. THE STAT The Knicks’ ratio of 3-point attempts to mid-range attempts was just 1.03, …
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The Bulls could be without one of their foundational players for up to two months. The franchise announced that Lauri Markkanen, a 2017-18 All-Rookie First Team forward, will miss at least six weeks with a high-grade lateral elbow sprain. Chicago said 21-year-old suffered the injury during practice on Thursday. INJURY UPDATE: Lauri Markkanen sustained a …
Read more “Chicago Bulls forward Lauri Markkanen suffers right elbow sprain, out six to eight weeks”
As of now, the status of Washington Wizards center Dwight Howard for the team’s first regular-season game seems unclear at best. Howard has been sidelined throughout the preseason with pain in his lower back, an injury that has forced the big man to be a spectator in each of the Wizards’ practice and exhibition games …
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CAMDEN, N.J. — Al Horford took a seat at one of the three tables needed to fit six players, an owner and a general manager and admired the Philadelphia skyline in the distance. “This view gets me excited,” Horford said . “This view back there of the city.” It’s the city he will call his …
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NEW YORK (AP) — A jury can decide whether former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley was ejected from Madison Square Garden with excessive force when he was removed as a spectator to a 2017 game, an appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated assault and battery claims Oakley made …
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* * * Will the Lakers’ path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder than in 2020? * * * Steve Aschburner: Harder. This league is all about continuous improvement, unless it happens to be about injury. That’s the mode Golden State was in this season, gone ghost by the injuries to Klay …
Read more “Bubble Wrap: Will the Lakers' path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder?”
* * * Will the Lakers’ path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder than in 2020? * * * Steve Aschburner: Harder. This league is all about continuous improvement, unless it happens to be about injury. That’s the mode Golden State was in this season, gone ghost by the injuries to Klay …
Read more “Bubble Wrap: Will the Lakers' path to The Finals in 2021 be easier or harder?”
