Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert may have been a bit aberrant when predicting that his depleted Cavs could contend, and possibly outperform LeBron James and the Miami Heat. After beginning the season at a respectable 4-3, the Cavs now sit nearly 20 games behind Central Division leader Chicago and the

↑  Greg Monroe, C – Detroit PistonsThis week the spotlight shines bright on a rookie center playing for the lowly Detroit Pistons. Monroe was taking a back seat to the 36-year-old Ben Wallace and his 3.2 points/6.5 rebounds per game average.  That is, until Big Ben went down with an ankle

Rashard Lewis The story of Antawn Jamison is analogous to that of Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, or even Patrick Ewing: veteran players who have sojourned city to city in pursuit of a coveted NBA ring.  In 2004 Jamison joined a talented Dallas Maverick team but failed to secure a title

In the summer of 2009, then Chicago Bull Ben Gordon did what any of us would do. The former Uconn standout parlayed a career season into one basketball’s biggest contracts, totaling well over $50 MM. Gordon has been a microcosm of his Piston team: struggling to shoot the ball efficiently

↑  Blake Griffin, PF – LAC Well it’s another week and another Clippers player is in the spotlight.  While it may be obvious to most fans and insiders that Mr. Griffin is off to a superb start to his career, it’s important to understand the merits of his accomplishments.  Griffin is

If you didn’t see the Nets' game versus the Central Division leading Chicago Bulls on January 5th, then you would have been surprised to learn that the Nets actually won that game. You would be even more surprised when you saw that Kris Humphries had put up 20 points and

↑ DeAndre Jordan, C – Los Angeles Clippers L.A.’s “other” team is finally starting to develop some young, noteworthy talent that may move them from the back pages.  One of the players in this youth movement is DeAndre Jordan (not to be confused with His Airness).   With only one

For Hedo to go home he’d probably would have to get a plane ticket back to Turkey or at least his first N.B.A. home of Sacramento. Let’s just keep things simple and call Orlando Hedo’s home, because the Magic appear to be the team that he’s most comfortable with. Hedo

Starting the season at 9-23 the New Jersey Nets are almost past the woeful number of games that they won all of last season (12). While New Jersey isn’t a team that should be counted on to make the playoffs, there are a few players that are worth considering adding

Sitting comfortably atop of the Eastern Conference, don’t look for Boston to change its winning formula just yet. That is until someone on The Big Three finally breaks down. Paul Pierce’s stats this season (18.2 ppg, 3.4 assists, 5.0 rebounds) are marginally better to what he averaged last season (18.3