The Denver Nuggets, three games from the postseason and two years removed from the franchise's first NBA championship, fired coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth on Tuesday. This comes a little more than a week after another West postseason contender, the Memphis Grizzlies, fired their head
Here in the final week of the NBA regular season, much remains at stake. The West has six teams in a jumble from seed Nos. 3 through 8. Two of those teams will have home court advantage in the first round. Two will be in the play-in tournament. All of
Good morning. The Houston Rockets, already sitting at 52 wins with three games left, just had one of the more incredible weekends of the season, locking up Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Stephen Curry in succession. Is Amen Thompson the best perimeter defender in the NBA? Are the Rockets ready ready for
Good morning. You can count on three things these days: death, global financial meltdowns at least once a decade and Steph Curry vs. LeBron James basketball wars. Let's basketball. Scores Bucks 126, Sixers 113 | Box Score | There are nights in which Giannis Antetokounmpo looks like the most unstoppable
Good morning. The Sacramento Kings are again embarrassing themselves, losing to the East's worst squad to fall four games under .500 with 10 days to go and risking a miss of the play-in tournament. Plus, other games were played. Let's basketball. Merely being locked in a
Good morning. The Nuggets and Timberwolves played an instant classic in the Mile High City. Stephen Curry went nuts. We are witnessing all-time legends do amazing things, sometimes on the same night. But you know, the 2001 Lakers would beaten all their asses, right Shaq? Let's basketball. Scores
Good morning. The West playoff race is tighter than John Stockton's shorts. The East has a fun race, too. And the West play-in battle is super depressing and will result in fans in three NBA cities having nubs for teeth by mid-April. Let's basketball. In the
Good morning. Memphis, on track to make the NBA playoffs in the tough Western Conference, fired their coach with nine games remaining. What are they thinking? Plus, we have reaction from a spicy weekend of NBA action. Let's basketball. On Friday, the Memphis Grizzlies pulled off something that
Good morning. The Bulls and Lakers present us with perhaps the most unglued 12.6 seconds to end an NBA game in memory. Oh, and the Pacers scored 162 in regulation. Let's basketball. Comments Are Back Whoops! I forgot to turn comments on before Thursday's newsletter.
After an eventful day, LeBron tips in a Lakers win. Welcome to the New GMIB, Same as the Old GMIB This should be the first issue of GMIB you are receiving via our new platform, Ghost. If you read the newsletter via email and you received this, we're
PLUS: news about the newsletter, the salary cap and Dame Lillard. Cap Goin’ Up On a Tuesday The NBA announced new salary cap growth projections on Tuesday; as expected, the cap is increasing 10%, the maximum possible under the current collective bargaining agreement. This is largely due to the NBA’
No. Oh no. The humanity! It’s prediction review time! Back in October I made 13 bold predictions about this season. They proved too bold. Let’s jump in. There will be a three-way race for the No. 1 seed in the West this season: the Phoenix Suns, the Memphis