Here are some quick takes on several notable NBA topics: 1) Suns' President Steve Kerr is certainly not risk-averse; since taking over the reins last year, he has acquired Shaquille O'Neal, let successful coach Mike D'Antoni walk and now he has traded two of the key rotation players who contributed ...

The team president and his handpicked, trial-by-fire coach met through a mutual friend at the 1991 ACC tournament. Later that evening, over burgers at Frank Manzetti's Bar & Grill in Charlotte, Ernie Grunfeld, then a fledgling New York Knicks executive, and Ed Tapscott, the former American coach...

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball. Former Coach Eddie Jordan explaining how to take a defense stance Eddie Jordan was fired from being the coach of the Washington Wizards. The excuse from GM Ernie Grunfeld was the lack of defense. Oh, and that 1 - 10 record probably ...

Even with Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood on the shelf with injuries, Ernie Grunfeld felt the Washington Wizards should be playing better. Increasingly, he saw a group that still includes two all-stars playing selfishly and without confidence. He felt they had regressed defensively. Grunfeld, who...

The Wizards Insider blog at the Washington Post is reporting that soon after Baron Davis opted out of his contract, the Warriors were trying to offer former Warriors guard Gilbert Arenas a max contract in the neighborhood of $100 million. The Wizards are offering a bit more (and an extra year), so A...

Come Tuesday, Gilbert Arenas will either be locked up by the Wizards for six years at max money or near max money, or he’ll be on his way to China for an Adidas promotional tour sans contract. The issue for the Wizards, as I see it, is that they’re more or less handcuffed by Arenas. If t...

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball. Joe Dumars admits it is not a big year for free agents. “With all due respect to the free agents out there, this is not one of the stronger classes,” Dumars said earlier this month. “So that’s why I’d e...

According to Jay Bilas, DeAndre's horrible basketball skills make him a steal in Round 2. If you had told me yesterday morning that anything in the world could sound dumber than Digger Phelps in the studio, I would have said, "Oh, right. Digger in a shouting match with Sean Salisbury." And I would h...

LOS ANGELES...

For such a talkative, confident and brash group, the Washington Wizards sure went down meekly in game six of their series with the Cleveland Cavaliers; the Wizards played smart, competitive basketball for about a quarter and a half and then fell apart, causing their initially boisterous home fans to...