Category: NBA News

Rick Carlisle steps down, J.B. Bickerstaff takes over There are announcements that make no noise but matter massively behind the NBA scenes. This is one of them. After twenty years leading the National Basketball Coaches Association, Rick Carlisle has decided to bow out. At the end of December, one of the most respected faces on…

Boston without Tatum: when the Celtics refuse to fold Losing your superstar usually knocks you off course. In the NBA the math’s brutal. No Jayson Tatum, no plan A. Yet Boston never hit pause. Stripped of their franchise player, the Celtics did the exact opposite of what people expected. They locked in. They kept moving.…

Curry and Kerr: ten years that rewired the NBA, together There are players. There are coaches. Then there are those rare duos that remake a franchise and, in the process, change a sport. In Golden State, Stephen Curry and Steve Kerr didn’t just win titles. They rewired how the NBA is played, thought about and…

Adelman loses it, NBA strikes The line’s thin. Too thin, sometimes, when the heat rises and the game frays at the edges. Saturday night in Houston, David Adelman crossed it. And the NBA didn’t waste time responding. The Nuggets’ coach was fined $35,000 after his ejection in the loss to the Rockets, the league said.…

Cleveland wobbles, Atkinson falters Winter’s come early in Ohio. In Cleveland the air’s gone cold and last spring’s smiles have been swapped for worried faces. The Cavs are slipping, piling up mistakes. And in the NBA, when results slide, the bench lights up. Current record: 15 wins, 14 losses. Not dramatic on paper. But the…

NBA under fire: JJ Redick blasts the refs In a league where every dribble sounds like a heartbeat and one call can sink a game, officiating stays the taboo no one wants to face. Until one night when JJ Redick, mic on and eyes dark, shoved his opinion into the machine. The ex-sniper turned talking…

James Wiseman: an unexpected return to the NBA spotlight Until a few weeks ago, James Wiseman’s name barely moved anyone. The 2m13 giant, billed as the Warriors’ future interior anchor after the 2020 draft, looked like he was sliding into oblivion. Cut by Indiana, bounced from rotation to rotation, he was just a lost project.…

Six weeks after their general manager walked, the Mavericks did the opposite of NBA panic: they’re in no hurry. No snap hire. No PR circus. Just a staged transition sold as a key step in rebuilding the organisation. In a league that rushes to fill every power gap, that restraint raises eyebrows and questions. Inside…