Paul Flannery wrote about why the NBA trade deadline was so quiet in his latest Sunday Shootaround, and one piece of the theory has stuck with me: certain teams were hesitant to make blockbuster moves because their odds of actually knocking off the historic Warriors or the near-historic Spurs in the playoffs would remain nil.
Less than a week remains until the NBA trade deadline and there is still plenty of uncertainty about how much activity will actually take place before the clock hits 3 p.m. EST Feb. 18. Big names like Blake Griffin and Carmelo Anthony, despite the various levels of speculation around them at times, seem unlikely to be moved – though a […]
Blake Griffin was suspended four games without pay on Tuesday for punching a team staff member, and the Los Angeles Clippers will dock the star forward’s pay for an additional game because he broke his shooting hand. In all, Griffin will lose $859,442 from his season salary of $18,907,725.
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside’s All-Star break got started early when he was sent home by the team soon after he was ejected from Tuesday’s blowout 119-101 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Whiteside was immediately tossed at the 9:35 mark of the fourth quarter when he swung an elbow in apparent frustration toward the head of Spurs center Boban Marjanovic as they battled for position near the free throw line.