Chris Paul and Dwight Howard have been talking recently about becoming teammates next season, according to ESPN’s Chris Broussard.

Because Broussard is reporting this, that means that it almost certainly won’t happen, but that’s beside the point.

Any team that could put the best point guard and arguably the best center in the league on the court at the same time has a chance to contend for an NBA Championship, and that’s exactly what would happen if Paul and Howard team up somewhere next year.

While it seems unlikely this will actually happen, let’s look at the potential teams that could pull this off, and how they’d stack up against the other teams in the NBA.

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Marc Gasol is the 2013 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. Marc Gasol was also named to the 2013 NBA All-Defensive Second Team.

Does that make sense to you?

The current Defensive Player of the Year, on the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. Really? To quote Stephen A. Smith, that’s just “so disrespectful.”

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It has been made abundantly clear here and on Twitter, that I think the NBA is the worst product of the four major sports.  But that doesn’t stop me from knowing what’s going on in the NBA.  A prime example is that I know if you lined up all 360 NBA players, James Harden would be way down the list of players who “look like” an NBA All-Star.  I also know that James Harden’s post game threads are just out of this world.

Harden has the uncanny ability to pull off the “black guy hipster” look.  There are so many guys in the NBA trying too hard to pull this off and it just doesn’t work.  But for James Harden, it does.

After seeing the outfit he wore during the Game 2 post-game presser after the Houston Rockets lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I knew it was time.  We need a James Harden “Swag-o-Meter” for playoff post-game pressers. Read the rest of this entry »

#1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #8 Houston Rockets

OKC is the most dominant team in the West right now. They have it all: offense, defense, coaching, and great role players. The Rockets can score the ball and would have had a legitimate shot to beat the Spurs in a series, but a not the Thunder. OKC is just too good.

Thunder in 5

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What do you do when you’re a storied franchise and you just fired a head coach that was extremely one dimensional, nobody thought he had the chutzpah to win an NBA championship, and your franchise’s superstar had no respect for him? You hire a coach who got fired for the same reasons at his last job! Wait…huh? How does this make any sense?

It doesn’t.

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This past weekend I was in Orlando for one of my girlfriends friends wedding. Lebron must not have been the only one to take his talents to Florida because there were enough honeys there for Wilt Chamberlain to get his, have seconds, and everyone else get a taste too (note: I do not partake in these sort of shenanigans since I have a wonderful and loving girlfriend but instead relay this information on to you for the sake of being a man). This gave me a great opportunity to take the temperature of the Magic fan base that just lost their star center to the Los Angeles Lakers in a manner that was salacious enough for a Lifetime made for TV movie starting DJ Tanner from Full House and Rob Lowe. Right now the fans optimism for the team hovers around zero, they aren’t looking forward to this season, and they detest Dwight Howard like he just called DirecTV and had them eliminate the Red Zone channel only in their market. This Dwight Coward jersey (above) pretty much sums up the entire city’s feelings towards him right now.

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Dwight Howard may portray himself to be a squeaky-clean, ultra religious professional athlete, but the fact is he’s got a few illegitimate children by several women.  I don’t blame Howard or fault him in any way.  He’s a well known professional athlete, women are going to throw themselves at him all the time whenever he goes out, and not everyone has the restraint of Tim Tebow.  Things happen.  He’s not the first pro athlete to have a few baby mamas and he won’t be the last.  At least one of Dwight Howard’s baby mamas happens to be smoking hot fitness model, Hope Alexa. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night, while I was watching the cacophony that was Sportscenter during the Dwight Howard debacle, I couldn’t help but feel sick to my stomach. I think the easiest way to do this is by doing a blog about the winners and losers of this trade.

Winners: LA Lakers

Holy fucking shit, do the rich get richer or what? I mean, the Lakers getting Dwight Howard is akin to the reports of Mitt Romney having never paid taxes in the past 10 years. With a lineup of Nash and Kobe in the backcourt, Dwight and Pau as their bigs, and a piece of hot, steaming pile of turd at SF and they can sleepwalk through the season and still get to 60 wins. This is a team that traded Vlade Divac for Kobe Bryant. That signed Shaq away from Orlando. Traded for Pau Gasol for Marc Gasol (okay, that was kind of fair actually). They traded scrubs for Kareem. They were awarded the Jazz’s first round pick (which turned out to be Magic Johnson) for an aging Gail Goodrich. I’m currently hoping for a chance that, somehow, Bane exists and is cooking up a plot to somehow pull a backbreaker on Dwight. THEN, he’ll have my permission to die. 

But then again, their coach is still Mike Brown. Wait, I think Buss family is currently on the phone with Phil Jackson.  Read the rest of this entry »

by Jorel Petree (@JorelPetree)

This Adidas ad pretty much sums up Dwight Howard's future

By @BMan86

In all sports, the trade deadline seems to materialize out of thin air, and suddenly what was a frozen landscape in whatever league,  starts to change drastically.  The trade deadline puts pressure on GMs to decide what their teams fate is, to predict the unpredictable.  It’s a time where teams either go for the throat, or in their words ‘think about the big picture’.  The NBA trade deadline is of massive importance in the league.  In a game where only five players are on the court at a given time, one significant addition can push a team from contender to champion, one subtraction from bubble to lottery.  As like the NFL, since the labor agreement was set to expire in 2011, many contracts were shaped to end the year of the labor deal, and the year after, to ensure flexibility under the new rules and regulations.  Thus, many players have expiring contracts and are good trade chips to give the weaker teams future draft picks and young talent, while boost other teams into making a run at the Larry O’Brien trophy.  The trade deadline is nothing more than it is; a deadline.  There’s no rule that trades can’t happen before, so why hasn’t one trade been consummated in a year full of players playing for contracts on their expiring deals? Mr. Dwight Howard. Read the rest of this entry »