Less than three months after being eliminated by the Miami Heat in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Rajon Rondo believes the Boston Celtics have made improvements to beat the defending NBA champions.
"I think because we have a talented group of guys... the additions of Courtney Lee, [Jason] Terry, and Jeff Green. We have high expectations every year... I think we got a lot better than last year," Rondo said at a Red Bull event in Hong Kong, according to The Standard.
Rondo thinks C's additions enough to beat the Heat
CSN New England 9/01/2012
With the Lakers hoping for a swift decision from Dwight Howard on his free agency this summer, the All-Star center has given no indication he will rush the process and has privately indicated that he plans to give strong consideration to multiple teams, league sources told CBSSports.com.
Though H
The Grizzlies had arguably the best 3-point defense in the NBA this season, giving up the third-fewest makes on the second-worst percentage.
It made no difference to the Spurs, who shredded them for 14 makes from beyond the arc — more than the Grizzlies had given up in more than two years — t
Amar’e Stoudemire knows his contract won’t allow him to go anywhere and he wants Mike Woodson to make a commitment to make a frontcourt of Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler work.
“We never gave it a chance,” Stoudemire said after Indiana’s 106-99 victory eliminated the Knic
The Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers don't start the Eastern Conference finals until Wednesday, but that hasn't stopped the teams from engaging one another early.
Heat star LeBron James took exception Sunday to Pacers coach Frank Vogel referring to Miami as "just the next team" standing between Indi
So much for riding off into the sunset.
Jerry Sloan’s name continues to be connected with virtually every NBA job that opens more than two years after abruptly resigning as coach of the Utah Jazz.
The list of teams reaching out to Sloan last summer included Portland, Charlotte and Orlando.
Two young employees at Tibco Software Inc. recently challenged the head of the company to a pull-up contest, and Vivek Ranadive didn't hesitate to accept.
The employees, men in their 30s, combined to gut out 12 pull-ups. Ranadive, who is 55, pumped out nearly twice as many.
"When he was done,
Kendrick Perkins sat down for his season-ending interview with reporters Thursday and was told, to his surprise, that he was sweating.
“Well I just left out of Sam's office so I might be sweating,” Perkins said of his exit interview with Thunder general manager Sam Presti.
“That was a joke,
It appears Bryan Colangelo’s time in Toronto is running out.
Sources confirmed a deadline has been set for Monday for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment to determine whether Colangelo will get his third-year option picked up.
That seems a highly unlikely outcome.
New MLSE president/chief
The rivalry has simmered for a year.
Now the stakes are even higher.
After defeating the Indiana Pacers in a bitterly contested six-game series in last season's Eastern Conference semifinals, the Miami Heat now will face the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, a series that opens Wednesda
Carmelo Anthony made the same slow, sad walk off the court that Patrick Ewing used to make all too often at the Garden, the walk into another season without a championship.
Ewing always had Michael Jordan in his way, and Melo would have had LeBron James in his way again, but he couldn’t even ge
The shots just kept coming from Iman Shumpert. They kept going in. But it wasn’t enough.
In the Knicks’ 106-99 season-ending Game 6 loss to the Pacers last night, it was Shumpert who delivered a surge that nearly saved the Knicks’ season.
Midway through the third quarter, Shumpert almost
Following the Knicks’ 106-99 ouster by the Pacers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals last night, center Tyson Chandler was asked why the Knicks never seemed to get back to their early-season form, when they were one of the NBA’s brightest stories.
“I don’t know, I can’t answ
After it ended, J.R. Smith said he looked at his Knicks jersey and thought about how he doesn’t want to leave New York.
“I want to retire a Knick,” said Smith, who can opt out of his contract this offseason, in the aftermath of the Knicks’ season-ending 106-99 Game 6 defeat. “I don’t
The Pacers prepared for the worst. But it worked out for the best — in every way.
Indiana was preparing to go without George Hill, who had missed Thursday’s game with a concussion, but the starting point guard was cleared in the afternoon by team doctors and the league. He started and played
Lance Stephenson finished with a playoff career-high 25 points and 10 rebounds and the Indiana Pacers pulled away late to beat the New York Knicks 106-99 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Saturday night and won their Eastern Conference semifinal series four games to two.
The victory sends the Pacers
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment is pursuing Denver Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri to take over as the top basketball executive of the Toronto Raptors, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Masai, the 2013 NBA Executive of the Year, has emerged as the top choice of the search firm – Korn/F
Atlanta Hawks coach Larry Drew will interview for the Milwaukee Bucks vacant coaching position Monday, a league source confirmed Friday.
And it's a very strange twist to have a currently employed NBA coach interviewing with another team.
But that's the agreement reached by Hawks management wit
Dwyane Wade would have been in Chicago for a Heat playoff game Friday night if he hadn’t helped eliminate the Bulls with a big fourth quarter two nights early.
So how did Wade fill the opening on his schedule?
By attending the senior prom of an Archbishop Coleman Carroll student who had aske
Kevin Durant’s season ended early in large part because he got the Dirk Nowitzki treatment.
And he didn’t have enough help around him to compensate.
When Russell Westbrook injured his knee in the first round against Houston, it meant Durant was destined for major multi-player coverages on
It was just after midnight back in San Antonio when Tim Duncan emerged fully clothed from a back room at Oracle Arena, eased himself into a chair in front of his locker and emitted the worn-out groan of grandpa melting into his favorite recliner for a “Matlock” marathon.
Just finished with a
If they absolutely had to, the Pacers believe they could win a Game 7 at the Garden. But it’s like getting in a car driven by Lindsay Lohan. If you can avoid it, by all means do.
The way to avoid that winner-take-all, pack-your-bags-for-Miami showdown would be winning Game 6 of the Eastern Conf
During a quiet moment, in the locker room in Toronto, on the eve of his 40th birthday in March, Jason Kidd asked a group of Knicks beat writers if they thought he would make a good coach and whether he would enjoy being one.
Kidd said jokingly that dealing with the media several times a day would
The return of the Hornets to Charlotte appears to be under way.
The team now known as the Bobcats is working to claim the nickname of Charlotte’s first NBA franchise, CBSSports.com reported Friday night. Specifically, the digital domain name NBAHornets.com was registered on Wednesday by a media
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal said Friday he’d lose some respect for a teammate who stayed on the sidelines the way Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose did this season.
“A little bit. Yeah, I would,” Beal said in an interview with Washington radio station WJFK-FM (via The Washing
Looking back, Jerry West calls it "one of the lowest points in my life" as an NBA executive. It was May 22, 2007 and West was sitting in a television studio in Secaucus, N.J., a long way from the kinds of playoff games the Memphis Grizzlies are now winning.
At stake, West thought, was the most pr
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