Even though McLemore is a SG and Irving a PG? Unless the Cavs want to play small often (PG 2SG), McLemore makes no sense after the Waiters pick last year. If they can trade down to 5 to 7 and grab Bennett or Len. Both are great talents with huge upsides.

Miami is a bad idea. Overall, it is a horrible sports town. I would not touch Florida. Here is how you select a location. Any metropolitan area that is under 750,00 people is out. Does the market have other professional teams, no, then you get no team.

I think St. Louis would be a great spot. It would create a natural rivalry with Sporting KC while not taking over their base of fans since they would be far enough apart yet not too far. This is something the MLS wants with FC NYC addition and the Vancover/Portland setup. While it is a baseball town first, it has great dedicated fans that if they start to like the team would follow it. Also, the other mid-western teams like Sporting KC, Columbus, Chicago, and Houston have done well.

As a Ranger fan, any NY based team needs a coach who has coached elsewhere first, so Messier is out. Gretzky has not proven to be anything to spit at behind the bench, so he should be out. If Gretzky is the best coach on the market, the NHL needs better coaches.

There are two mindsets for a new position, best team or the better conference to help you get to the finals. With the first, I think the Nets are the best decision but if you want the conference to play in, it should be the west since they a) do not have the Heat, b) the AARP Lakers, and Mavs are members, c) in few years Duncan will not be there and d) did I saw that the best player in the NBA would only be played in the NBA. You have to beat good teams along the way in both conferences so take the best player out until the finals.

All that being said, if I had to guess, the Nets (more money than the Clips or Denver) will get Hollins and if he does not win in 3 years, he will be looking for a job again.

How is this news? It is a practice in May. It does not not matter. Wait, I know there has to be filler "news" for T&R.

Good idea but how is Noel an advantage, when he is Ibaka lite? If they kept Harden and dumped Ibaka, then it is a no brainer for OKC. I would think OKC would want a scoring SG (I think Martin is a FA) or a PF who could score instead of Noel. That means trade up to 3 or 4 not #1. Maybe they can keep one of the other picks if they provide young talent in a deal for 3 or 4.

For the current Super Bowl the ad revenue would be the same but not the following year especially if the next game is in a cold weather city. Less people would watch the game because more people would have to work. Less people equals less money. Unless the stadium collapses, the game would be played on Sunday. It would be a disaster that the league would get out of but it will not be pretty.

His involvement will be noticed. Is Magic noticed with the Dodgers? Is Cuban noticed with Dallas? Any big name will be noticed. Any positive newsworthy stories can only help the league. It may not make a huge difference, but it will be noticed. Maybe it will help the salaries for the players to go up by the league getting more people to attend games which would help bring in better players or keep better US players.

Woodson ran ISO for Joe Johnson in Atlanta way too often also. That is way he works. Could Copeland have played more, yes, but then the Pacers would score more also. He is that bad on defense.

We are not even adding in Pablo, who deserved to play over Copeland and Shumpert. Also Kidd, who when he was in, while the ocean was a tough shot from a cruise ship, made sure the ball was moving and got the team open shots. It came down to this, the Knicks all year were a streaky team due to their outside shooting based offense and matador D and typically, streaky team fail in the playoffs because they play better teams that have the best 3 point defense in the league.

This is great news. Having a owner that everybody knows especially for a expansion team is huge for a great game that most people do not give a real chance to like it. If people watch the game for the beautiful sport it is and the strategy, playmaking, and skill involved, people would have to at least respect it.

Who would you rather play, Shumbert Novak, or Copeland? It really can not be one of them since Felton, Melo, Smith, and Chandler or Martin need to play big minutes. If Copeland could play defense he would play more, just like Novak. That is why Shumbert is so important. While not that good on offense right now, they need his defense.

JR Smith is best when he wants to rebound and dish the ball. I would rather have a line of 12 points, 7 boards, 4 assists, which he could easily do than 20 points, 2 boards, 1 assist. He is not good enough on offense to not do the other things that need to be done like defense and rebounding.

There are only 7 states without income taxes. Two of them have NBA teams, Florida and Texas. The Heat, Magic and Spurs would not want Howard. That leaves the Mavs and Houston. This is a business decision as well as a winning decision (as it should be). Usually this helps LA, or NY but in this scenario, I think it hurts. That is not to say he can not win in Dallas or Houston. Going forward in 3 years, I would take the Rockets over the Lakers.

I actually think it was a smart move not to give it out. By not giving it out, it shows restraint. Restraint to people who will want your money, restraint to people who do not need your number. It shows discipline, something many players do not have. This will not jump his status but it will not have a team not draft him either and if there are two players who a team likes and one has a checker past, the team will take the the better bet.

The rule is not "a player can not leave until after x year in college", it is age based. All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. The rule should be 20 years since for most players, that is two years of college. The players would be better and would provide a better product on the floor for the NBA and NCAA. In college, you learn more than just how to play ball, you learn that many 18 year olds are stupid (especially ones that have the gift of being a great basketball player since many have everything handed to them) and need to grow up. The ones that care about their future, will grow outside the court as well as on the court.

+100 Lets not also forget Navy, Purdue and Michigan State also have a much longer tradition of playing ND than Michigan does.

So the coaches are giving payback to Lebron for the media who voted Gasol, defensive player of year? No way that happened.

At what level is this being used? In the A ball, this could be a really good idea and then it is removed when you get higher into AA and AAA ball. At the AAA level, I do not see this working. Is this being used on the fast rising player like a Matt Harvey or a regular player? There is not enough details given to give a good or bad response.

Do you really believe the NY Post? This is information from last season, it is irreverent now, just like the Post. This is just filler to meet the quota of new articles.

And that does not include Howard. Between two players (Kobe and Pau), the Lakers owe $49 million for the one year. Add in the $9 mill for Nash and three players are costing the Lakers $58 million. How about the rest of the team? Bring up the Lakers and their reasonable team salary is a losing battle everytime. Lets assume Howard is resigned. Is it safe to say you want to keep Earl Clark also. That is going to be another 25-30 million next year. The only salaries on the Lakers next year that are reasonable are Jodie Meeks and Steve Blake.

You trade contracts not players. That is why Meeks will never be traded since he is cheap and a solid player. That is also the reason Gasol has been rumored to be traded all season.

One more note, why did you not use the real next year's Magic salary? Arenas has been off the books for years. Assuming the picks are decent for the Magic, they got exactly what they wanted out of the trade. Based off expectations (which is the only way to compare teams in a trade like this), the Magic won the deal and have put themselves in a good position to improve. Were the Lakers expected to be an 8 seed? Did the Sixers expect Bynum to miss the whole season?

Lakers did not win this deal since they are barely making the playoffs and are a very old team with few draft picks in the near future. They went all in and they need a river card miracle to have any chance of doing anything this year. Also, if Howard does not resign (I think he will), the Lakers are the biggest losers. Philly obvious is not winning the deal. Denver did well with Iggy, especially considering they are the best team in the deal this year and have a solid future ahead of them.

All that being said, Orlando will win the deal in the long term. They got exactly what they wanted. They got 5 draft picks (3 first round picks) and a young core of talented players. Look who they got in the deal, Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Moe Harkless, Nikola Vucevic, Josh McRoberts, and Christian Eyenga. Harkless is a typical one and done player, very talented but needs time to mature. Afflalo is a good scorer and the best pickup Vucevic, is a very good player. Did I mention 5 draft picks?

It would not be too dumb if Amare needs to retire due to both knees being bad. I doubt it will happen but if it is that bad, you never know. The Knicks need a offensive threat in the post.

Bynum maybe cheaper than Amare too. I do not see Bynum getting a max deal. I see him getting a short term deal (3 year) for 10-12 million or (which Bynum may prefer) a one year deal for average money just to prove himself and then go for the big money.