The trade deadline came and the trade deadline went. Months of speculation were brought to a conclusion. How would the New Orleans Pelicans add to and complement their young core? What moves could be in store to launch this 19-24 team into playoff contention?
At this stage last season the Breakers were 3-9, soon to be 4-10, just getting themselves out from the self-inflicted wound that was Glen Rice Jr and with RJ Hampton nearing his fifteenth and final appearance for the club.
When bringing you these yarns about Steven Adams throughout the NBA season, it’s always important to keep things in context. Especially for a team-first dude like Adams who wouldn’t think twice about sacrificing his personal stats for team success
This is such a weird season, man. The Pelicans started 4-2. Then they sunk to 5-10. Next thing they reel off a few wins and are up to 11-12... then come a few more defeats and that’s been the pattern.
The NBL Cup begins in a few days, with all the teams amassing in Melbourne for a mini-tournament within a tournament. Everybody plays each other once with those games counting also towards the proper season, as well as to a points table specifically for the hub games
The first one of these Steve-o round-ups deliberately avoided making wider judgements about a team that came into this season with a new head coach, a couple new starters, their two best players both under the age of 24, trying to play a very different system of basketball…
Once upon a time Sean Marks was the general manager of a plucky underdog Brooklyn Nets team, inheriting the job at a time when few would have envied the task ahead of him but quickly transforming the entire perception of the franchise as he and head coach Kenny Atkinson instilled a fresh, modern, humble, team-first culture.
It’s taken a lot of waiting for this NBL season to finally swing around and even as it does the Breakers still have to wait a little longer as they didn’t have a scheduled game in round one. All part of the juggling of various state protocols, trying to do this thing in the midst of a global pandemic, you know?
Not gonna lie, it’s been difficult to get a handle on this Steven Adams on the New Orleans Pelicans thing and it’s nothing to do with the player or the team either. This whole NBA season has been ridiculous so far.
Well, here we are. We made it. Somehow amidst a crippling pandemic in a nation led by morons and power-grabbers the National Football League is just 16 games shy of a completed regular season.
How appropriate that the Minnesota Vikings would be playing on Christmas Day. Not because Kirk Cousins is like Santa’s little helper with all the gifts he offers up (to his own receivers and to opposition defenders) but for a simpler, more innocent reason...
The Brooklyn Nets have been on a few different sides of those various reflections in recent times and no doubt you’ve read plenty about all of those incarnations (hit the page tags).
Yeah, that’ll do it. Thaaaaat’ll do it. I’d say that will do it. Yeah, that’ll do it.
Green Bay are another and that battle between them and New Orleans for the top seed is gonna be good – only one team gets a first round bye this time so the top seed is bug business
This might as well be an every week thing now. Nobody’s even surprised when he does these amazing feats right before our eyes. As much as I wanna see Russell Wilson get that MVP award for sentimental reasons... it ain’t him. Not any longer.
Sit back and listen to the man himself talk about the whole drama. Straight from the horse’s mouth. No agendas or speculation, just pure relevance. Here’s a bit of what he had to say.
It was a beautiful run while it lasted. Steven Adams as the big man of the Oklahoma City Thunder, a bloke who so perfectly represented all that they were trying to achieve as a franchise. But all things must pass.
It’s Thanksgiving in the United (so to speak) States of America and the timeline is stacked with people ranking Thanksgiving food. I’m sure there are some other aspects to that particular holiday, gaudy USA patriotism being one of them, but mostly it seems to be about fighting with relatives and eating food?
It’s the birthplace of jazz. The Big Easy. Home to the Mardi Gras. Home to all manner of fine cuisine – po’ boys, jambalaya, gumbo and plenty else. The setting of the play A Streetcar Named Desire.
DeAndre Hopkins is second in total receiving yardage this season, 45 yards behind Stefon Diggs in one fewer game with six fewer catches. 861 yards on 67 catches with the best catch percentage on targets of anyone in the top six.