Author Archive for Guy
Confession: I Might Actually Care about the Rookie-Sophomore Game This Year
The title pretty much says it all here. In every single NBA season leading up to now, the Rookie-Sophomore game during All Star weekend has been nothing more than a sideshow. Whether I watched it was typically determined by how big of a loser I was, meaning that if I had nothing better to do [...]
SEC Weekly Rundown – 1/30
Sitting atop the SEC standings with a 5-1 record, you will find the Kentucky Wildcats Florida Gators Vanderbilt Commodores Alabama Crimson Tide. Yep, that’s right. Second year head coach Anthony Grant has his team playing some fantastic defense. Granted, the schedule outside of Kentucky has been soft, but the Tide have a two game lead [...]
SEC Weekly Round-up – 1/25
It seems as if the gulf between the SEC’s East and West divisions is only widening. Thus far, the West is collectively a pathetic 3-9 against the East, with Alabama accounting for two of the wins (over Kentucky and South Carolina) and Arkansas the other (over Tennessee). Take this weekend for example. There were two [...]
Calf Strain Sidelines Francisco Garcia, Full UofL NBA Update
Before this week, Francisco Garcia had solidified a starting spot with the Sacramento Kings, but missed the team’s last three games with a strain of his left calf. Additionally, the man they call ‘Cisco aggravated the injury in practice on Thursday and is expected to miss at least another week with the injury according to [...]
Wall Beats Rondo in First Head to Head, Full UK NBA Update
The Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards played each other for the second time already this season on Saturday, but it was the first time that former Wildcats Rajon Rondo and John Wall faced off. The match-up between the two electrifying point guards was one that UK fans have been looking forward to ever since [...]
Sizing Up NBA Finals Contenders in the Eastern, Western Conference
Entering this season, most experts reduced the amount of teams thought to be actually capable of making the NBA Finals to a very select group. In the West, the Lakers were the run away favorites with the up and coming Oklahoma City Thunder as a trendy sleeper pick, while teams like the Mavericks and Spurs [...]
SEC Weekly Round-up – 1/18
We’re three games in to this season’s SEC slate and already we are without an unbeaten. Four teams from both the East and West divisions sit atop the standings with 2-1 records, while Ole Miss and lowly Auburn are 0-3 in the West. Because of how bad the West is this year (and was last [...]
Samuels Stumbles into Playing Time, Full UofL NBA Update
Samardo Samuels’ decision to enter the NBA Draft after his sophomore season was met by derision and surprise from almost everybody and even laughter by some. It came as no shock then that he went undrafted, as everyone made the requisite jokes about him heading to Europe. However, the Chicago Bulls brought him in to [...]
Patterson Gives Us a Scare, Full UK NBA Update
I don’t pretend to have much in the way of sources, but on Saturday night, I got a rare piece of advance information. I had heard that Patrick Patterson had left the Rockets’ game in Atlanta with flu-like symptoms, but I got a text that he had, in fact, been taken to the hospital with [...]
Carmelo Anthony Continues to Hold Denver Hostage
We know Carmelo Anthony won’t be in Denver for long, but where will he go?
