The Lakers keep getting kicked while they are down from members of their past outfit. James Worthy always keeps it real on the halftime broadcast, but now Magic Johnson, another Lakers legend emerged from the shadows with condemnation for the underachieving group. He said the owner deserved better. It’s some impeccable timing. Jeanie Buss […]
With the NBA All-Star game in Cleveland on February 20, many of the contributors at the Five Reasons Sports Network named the teams that they would like to see. Mateo Mayorga- Mateo’s Hoop Diary East Starters: West Starters: DeMar DeRozan Ja Morant James Harden Stephen Curry Kevin Durant LeBron James Giannis Antetokounmpo Nikola […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are running out of time to turn their season around. After 42% of the year, they’ve underachieved and sit at eight games below .500. Some of their record can be blamed on the injury report but most of it should be attributed to the poor product the Blazers have put on […]
The Miami Heat have turned misfortune into opportunity over their last 14 games. Since Dec. 1, the team has been without at least two starters and in some cases three. With key players catching the injury bug and COVID-19, the Heatles have managed to scrape away an 9-5 record. It’s tough for any […]
Kyrie Irving won. It probably won’t be long either before the Nets change course on their decision not to bring him back. Inexplicably, the Brooklyn Nets swallowed their words in the middle of a league-wide covid outbreak. And they shouldn’t have. It was only on Oct. 29 when team owner Joe Tsai said it […]
The New Orleans Pelicans can’t catch a break. The latest setback to their cornerstone player Zion Williamson probably ends any hope the team had of even making the play-in tournament. Given the cascade of complications the squad has endured, once again, the future must remain a priority. The slow progress of Williamson’s rehabilitation of […]
The necessity of a trade is sometimes the fault of a player not living up to his end of the contract or a front offices’ miserable ability at building a winner. Assembling a quality squad through the draft takes years. It only makes it more painful for those competing or the devoted supporters who spend […]
The NBA needs to show it still has some balls. LeBron James lost his self-control Sunday night in Detroit and delivered one of the most vicious blows seen on an NBA court since Metta Sandiford-Artest, formerly Ron, elbowed James Harden over nine years ago. Isaiah Stewart, a 20-year-old sophomore in the league, was the […]
No one, at this moment, has a better NBA gig than John Wall of the Houston Rockets. His job is so sweet the team doesn’t need him to break a sweat. They’d prefer he mentor a group with an abysmal record when Wall himself knows little of winning at the pro level. Wall owes […]
The NBA season is still in its infancy, and most things seen now should be taken with a grain of salt. Like last year, some records, good and bad, only two weeks into action can be misleading. This part of the season is purely for enjoyment. Making accurate predictions based on the limited sample size […]
