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Miami Heat: Is LeBron James a Stat Stuffer?
The latest brainless attack on LeBron James , led by the obsessed Skip Bayless, is to dismiss his undeniable statistical dominance as "stat stuffing," and this charge is being repeated by a lot of "fans" who don't understand the game of basketball...
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2012 NBA All-Star Game: Who Should Play?
It’s well known, or should be, that fans don’t always make the best choices in their votes for the NBA all-star game, casting them based on reputation and sometimes ignoring what has actually been taking place on NBA courts...
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Tim Tebow vs. Chicago Bears: How to Do "Tebow Time" Against the Bears
1. Use your skill as a quarterback to make sure that Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is injured well before your game with the Bears, because you're only going to get your team ...
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LeBron James: Why All the Fuss If He's No Good as a Player?
Ever since Miami lost to Dallas in the finals and LeBron performed poorly, there has been plenty of anti-LeBron commentary on Bleacher Report, of which I see two categories...
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NBA: Is Erik Spoelstra Coach of Miami Heat's Future?
The Heat won their 50th game last night against Doug Collins's Philadelphia 76ers, but I saw a lot that alarmed me...
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Ten Days That Shook The (Modern) NBA World
This is the second part of a two-part series on the ten days that, more than any others, shaped the modern (post-Jordan) NBA. The first part, http://bleacherreport...
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NBA: Do You Know What Happened on These Dates That Changed the League?
The ten dates listed below are, I believe, the ten watershed moments that were decisive in shaping the latest era of the NBA ...
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NBA Home Cooking: Which Broadcasters Have the Best Local Flavor?
So now that I have been enjoying my NBA League Pass for a couple of years, I find it entertaining to catch the flavor of the local broadcasts for the various teams, and it strikes me that some of the broadcasters are much better than others...
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Miami Heat's 4th Quarter Lineup Against Oklahoma City Thunder Might Be Ideal
I really like the Miami Heat lineup we saw in the fourth quarter in the excellent win against Oklahoma City Thunder ...
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Message to People Freaking Out Over Everything LeBron James Says
Here's a video of a bunch of girls watching the results of American Idol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHoxl8IK7po All you people at B/R who freak out over every offhand comment LeBron James happens to make—this is what you are like...
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NBA All-Star Balloting Notes
Time to start voting for you all-star picks (go to NBA.com). Question: will LeBron start for the East, or is this the year that we find out just how stupid and undeserving NBA ...
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NBA MVP Watch: An Objective Assessment
I have developed my own statistical formula for determining the league MVP , a formula I will simply call the MVP Rating (the formula is given at the end of the article)...
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LeBron James and Chris Bosh Cause Miami Heat's Loss to Memphis Grizzlies
The Heat lost to the Grizzlies last night on a buzzer beater from Rudy Gay. Obviously, it was a distressing loss for a team that was supposed to push towards the 70-win barrier...
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NBA MVP Race: Chris Paul Clear in the Early Picture
After last night, we’re 12 percent through the regular season (149 out of 1,230 NBA games have been played, and 21 of the 166 days of the season have passed)...
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Was LeBron Really That Bad Against The Celtics?
As an ardent Cavs fan, I was as disappointed with LeBron in the Celtics series as anyone. He was terrible in game five, especially, and the overall impression his performance left ...
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Five Reasons Boston Celtics Fans Should Be Worried
Celtics fans talked a lot of smack after game two of the Cavs-Celtics series. At Bleacher Report, we were treated to a host of articles about how much better, position by position, ...
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2010 NBA Playoffs: An Eyewitness Account of Cavs-Celts Game One
Despite living in Baltimore, I’m a big LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers fan. My wife and I decided to splurge and get tickets for game one on Saturday between the Cavs and ...
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Kevin Durant Was Fouled: The Thunder Should Have Won
I know there's an unwritten rule that the game is called differently in the last 30 seconds or so, and I get that refs (and fans) don't want games decided at the free-throw line, but Kevin Durant got fouled last night on that last-second three-pointer...
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All-NBA Teams: Let The Arguments Begin
Each year, the NBA names 15 players to its three all-NBA teams. With half a dozen games left, I’ll indicate whom I would pick. I know that people will disagree with some of my picks...
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LeBron James' Latest Non-Issue: Who Needs Scoring Titles?
ESPN.com is reporting that LeBron James, who currently leads Kevin Durant by a fraction of a point for the NBA scoring title, declared that he doesn't care if he wins it or not. What he cares about is what the team achieves, James said...
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NBA MVP by the Numbers: An Attempt at Objectivity
Today I was reading yet another article on B/R proposing that the young rising superstar, Kevin Durant, should be this year’s MVP instead of LeBron James...
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LeBron James: How He Closes
Kobe Bryant has been appropriately lauded for his phenomenal game winning shots. That's as it should be. But tonight, LeBron James demonstrated against the Indiana Pacers that he has his own way of closing games...
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Cavaliers Without LeBron Didn't Look Good at All
All season long, I've seen people raise the question at B/R, what would the Cavs be without LeBron? Well, it was just one game, but tonight we got a look...
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Mike Brown's Mix-and-Match Options: An Embarrassment of Riches
Let's assume, just for a minute, that by playoffs time the Cavs have Big Z back and all the currently injured players are healthy and ready to go...
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Cavs Are on Top of the World (For Now)
With the Lakers' loss tonight to Toronto, Cleveland now has the best record in the NBA. Who knows if it will last? Maybe the Cavs and Lakers will flip flop for a while at the top; maybe one or the other team will take the reigns for a while...
