An NBA Executive Says ‘There’s Not Enough Support To Change’ The Intentional...
YouTube We’re chuckling to ourselves about this. It’s like the #HoopIdea to do away with flopping, as if a possible $5K (or larger) fine was going to prevent players from any on-court edge they can...
View ArticleHouston Steals Game 6 From Los Angeles With A Fourth-Quarter Run For The Ages
Getty Image It would be easy to make this about the Los Angeles Clippers. They played the scoreboard. They forgot about Blake Griffin. Their lack of depth reared its ugly head. They grew afraid of the...
View ArticleJosh Smith Is The Rockets’ Best Hope To Upset The Warriors
Getty Image Let’s start by being completely honest: The Houston Rockets are massive underdogs heading into the Western Conference Finals. The Golden State Warriors beat them every time the teams met...
View ArticleDwight Howard Bruised His Left Knee And Did Not Play The Final 11 Minutes
USA TODAY Sports Dwight Howard was questionable to return to Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals against the Golden State Warriors after he suffered a bruised knee in the first half in a collision...
View ArticleJames Harden Capped Off The Rockets’ Big First Half With An 80-Footer That...
The Houston Rockets may be facing a 3-0 deficit to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals, but they sure didn’t lack confidence opening up the game. They were hotter than they’ve...
View ArticleJosh Smith Has Agreed To Sign With The Los Angeles Clippers
Getty Image Josh Smith is heading to Los Angeles to join the team he helped knock out of this past season’s playoffs, as first reported by RealGM: Free agent Josh Smith has reached agreement with the...
View ArticleJosh Smith Says His Minimum Deal With The Clippers Is ‘Going To Be A Little...
Getty Image Oh, to be Josh Smith. First, he was unceremoniously told to go home by Stan Van Gundy and the Detroit Pistons during the middle of a season. They literally paid him to go home and stay away...
View ArticleStop Extolling NBA Players Who Take Less Money For A Better Chance To Win
Getty Image Money isn’t everything, but it’s really important. Money is agency, and it’s how most Americans define success. We live in a capitalist society, one that’s spawned enough wealth for 29...
View ArticleJosh Smith Clarifies How His Comments About Family Were Taken Out Of Context
USA TODAY Sports Josh Smith had one of the more unfortunate quotes of the summer when he said that going to the Los Angeles Clippers would be “a little hard on” him and his family. What he actually...
View ArticleThe Best Under-The-Radar Moves By Contenders In The 2015 NBA Offseason
Getty/USA Today We all know what the big moves by contenders were this season. The Spurs brought in LaMarcus Aldridge and somehow managed to convince David West to take an $11 million pay cut, while...
View ArticleJosh Smith Is Heard Cursing Out A Clippers Assistant Through A Cement Wall
USA TODAY Sports The Clippers have lost three in a row and frustration is mounting. Nothing brought the simmering tension to a head more than the reported tirade Josh Smith had with an unknown...
View ArticleThe Clippers Reportedly Put Lance Stephenson And Josh Smith On The Trading...
USA TODAY Sports It seems like a lifetime ago that Lance Stephenson was considered one of the NBA’s rising stars after parlaying his stellar play with the Indiana Pacers into a three-year contract with...
View ArticleCan The Josh Smith Trade Turn The Rockets Back Into Contenders?
Getty Image When the Rockets acquired Josh Smith off waivers in December last year, it completed the team that would make a surprise run to the Western Conference Finals. After letting Smith go sign a...
View ArticleJosh Smith Absolutely Owned Dirk Nowitzki With This Dream Shake
Josh Smith did Dirk dirty here. Dirk might be having an All-Star caliber year, but Smoove just faked him out something fierce when he showed the ball and spun the other way. But that move wasn’t all...
View ArticleWhat NBA Teams Are Shelling Out Millions To Players Not On Their Roster Next...
Getty Image Maybe you don’t know this, and we wouldn’t if we didn’t also spend time around other sports, but the Mets have been shelling out some hefty checks to retired players over the years....
View ArticleStan Van Gundy Says Josh Smith Will Take Fewer Three-Pointers This Season
Josh Smith (Soobum Im, USATODAY) It’s a shame that Detroit Pistons forward Josh Smith became a punching bag for criticism last season. That’s not to say it wasn’t warranted, of course. Smith reached a...
View ArticleGIF: Josh Smith Winds Up For Dunk On Nerlens Noel
Nerlens Noel, Josh Smith (photo. r/nba GIF) Rookie defensive maven Nerlens Noel had himself a night. The future of the Philadelphia 76ers had 8 points, 8 rebounds, 5 steals, and 5 blocks in his team’s...
View ArticleJosh Smith Responds To Faried: “I’m Bustin’ His A**…He Fears Me, He’s Scared...
Kenneth Faried, Josh Smith (Chris Humphreys-USA TODAY Sports) After the Nuggets defeated the Pistons on Wednesday night, 89-79, Kenneth Faried said “Josh Smith…shot them out of the game.” While Smith...
View ArticleGIF: Jason Smith Badly Rejects Josh Smith
Jason Smith is not known as an elite rim protector. New York’s somewhat stiff power forward was even used as an insulting comparison when Dan Le Batard was making fun of LeBron and the Cavs on Twitter...
View ArticleVideo: Derrick Rose Crosses Up J Smoove & Scoops No-Look Dime To Pau Gasol
Derrick Rose, Andre Drummond (David Banks-USA TODAY Sports) The dramatic open-court skills of Derrick Rose were on full display last night with a few moves that made Bulls fans caterwaul for different...
View ArticleGIF: Josh Smith Thwarts John Wall’s One-Man Break By Pinning Layup On Glass
Josh Smith Say what you want about Josh Smith. After an absolutely dismal first season with the Detroit Pistons, the lefty forward has barely looked better under the tutelage of Stan Van Gundy early in...
View ArticleStan Van Gundy Benches Josh Smith After “Jawing Session” About Defense
Stan Van Gundy (Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports) It wasn’t just Markieff Morris and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope who got into it last night during the Suns-Pistons game. It seems Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy...
View ArticleVideo: Andre Drummond Rejects Jabari Parker Then Catches Alley-Oop Slam
Andre Drummond did his part to end Detroit’s losing streak last night, connecting on 11-of-15 field goal attempts for a team-high 23 points along with 10 rebounds. He also had two blocks. One sequence...
View ArticleVideo: Jabari Parker Jams It On Josh Smith
Giannis Antetokounmpo was only 1-of-13 from the field last night against Detroit for just two points in over 30 minutes of action. But he did find time to set up Jabari Parker for this jam on Josh...
View ArticleRussell Westbrook’s A Big Bully For This Dunk On The Pistons
There are dunks and then there’s just getting sh*tted on. Russell Westbrook’s one to do the latter at any moment, and unfortunately, the Pistons found out in the worst way. Russell charged forth,...
View ArticleGIF: Blake Griffin’s Big-To-Big Lob To DeAndre Jordan
Blake Griffin had 18 points and seven rebounds, and DeAndre Jordan had a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds as the Clippers bigs largely outplayed Detroit’s three-headed monster in the...
View ArticleThe Pistons Have Waived Josh Smith, So What Now?
Josh Smith (Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports) Today the Detroit Pistons announced they’re waiving forward Josh Smith. Smith is owed $13.5 million this year, plus an additional $27 million through the...
View ArticleDetroit Pistons Show Josh Smith The Door
Getty Image The Pistons front office laid down a megaton on Tuesday by announcing their move to waive Josh Smith. The not quite small, kinda-sorta power forward never settled in his year-and-change run...
View ArticleThe Detroit Pistons Put A Lump Of Coal In Josh Smith’s Stocking And Released...
Getty Image Listen, I get that most of you don’t care about the Detroit Pistons—I don’t blame you. They are a bad basketball team. They are horrific to watch. I mean, they’re so bad I went to a game by...
View ArticleReport: Rockets Are Favorites To Sign Josh Smith
Josh Smith (Gary Taormina, USATODAY) Josh Smith could go from getting released by a cellar-dwelling team to being a cog for a championship-contending one. Such is the strange business of team sports....
View ArticleReport: Lakers, Mavericks Among Teams Interested In Josh Smith
Wesley Johnson, Josh Smith (Gary A. Vasquez, USATODAY) The Los Angeles Lakers already have one fledgling former star power forward. Why not add another? After winning the amnesty bidding for Carlos...
View ArticleReport: Josh Smith Commits To Houston Rockets (UPDATE)
Josh Smith (Pat Lovell, USATODAY Sports) So much for in-season free agency drama. According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, Josh Smith will sign with the Houston Rockets once he clears waivers...
View ArticleVideo: This Josh Smith Pass Is His Brief Rockets Career In A Nutshell
Josh Smith (Troy Taormina, USATODAY) What have the Houston Rockets received from Josh Smith since “winning” his mid-season free agency? 8.4 points and 5.2 rebounds per game on 34.6 percent shooting....
View ArticleVideos: Josh Smith Dazzles With No-Look Dime, Chase-Down Block, Poster Dunk
Josh Smith (photo. Rockets Vine) This is the Josh Smith the Houston Rockets envisioned when signing the talented but beleaguered lefty last month. Watch J-Smoove show-off his awesome natural gifts with...
View ArticleGIF: Brandon Jennings Clinches Win Over Raptors With Last Second Steal
Amir Johnson, Brandon Jennings, Kyle Lowry (Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports) Perhaps the biggest surprise in the NBA over the last few weeks has been the dramatic turnaround of the Detroit Pistons....
View ArticleRockets’ Josh Smith Says He’s Excited For Pistons, Tunes Out Criticism
J.R. Smith, Josh Smith (Ron Schwane, USATODAY) The streak is over, but the story isn’t. The Detroit Pistons have won nine of the 10 games they’ve played since Stan Van Gundy made the shocking decision...
View ArticleDime Q&A: Andre Drummond On Fan Interaction, Josh Smith & Detroit’s Chances
Andre Drummond (photo. NBA.com) What a difference three weeks makes. The Detroit Pistons have won 10 of their last 13 games, emerging as one of the league’s brightest stories after beginning the season...
View ArticleVideo: Josh Smith Enters To Boos In First Game Played At Detroit Since Release
Josh Smith We always assumed that Detroit Pistons fans hated Josh Smith. And while the Houston Rockets forward was indeed met with boos upon checking into the game against his former at The Palace Of...
View ArticleVideo: Markieff Morris Smashes Hammer Dunk On Josh Smith
The Houston Rockets’ Josh Smith isn’t the all-around athlete he used to be. Even at the height of his ultra-versatile defensive powers, though, we doubt J-Smoove could stop Markieff Morris when the...
View ArticleJosh Smith Shushes Hawks Crowd, Then Calls Them ‘Bandwagoners’ After A...
The man who the Pistons are paying $30 million simply to go away, made his return to Atlanta last night for the first time as a Rocket. Josh Smith played his first nine seasons in ATL, but after...
View ArticleJosh Smith Cocks Back For Sick Facial Jam Over Chris Kaman
Josh Smith might not be the hyper-athlete he was five years ago, but the Houston Rockets forward can still get up when the time really calls for it. Was there any doubt he’d win this challenge at the...
View ArticleJosh Smith Finds Dwight Howard For Alley-Oop – On Two Straight Possessions
Fool the Minnesota Timberwolves once, shame on Josh Smith and Dwight Howard. Fool the young ‘Wolves twice? It’s probably fair to blame their absolutely porous defense. Though they haven’t played many...
View ArticleAndrew Wiggins Powers Right Through Josh Smith For Two-Handed Smash
Andrew Wiggins is one of the best athletes in the NBA. He runs like a deer, slides like a bug, and jumps like a kangaroo. But though the Minnesota Timberwolves rookie has accumulated a wealth of...
View ArticleJosh Smith Was Just The Third Player In The Last Decade To Play 83 Games In A...
Via AP You may not have noticed — you’re a busy person — but Josh Smith changed teams mid-year. There was a big to-do about it way back. Say what you will about Smoove, but the man stays on the court....
View ArticleThe Top 5 Must-See Moments From Last Night’s NBA Playoff Action
Day four of the 2015 NBA Playoffs saw a lot of action, as three teams claimed wins to secure 2-0 leads before traveling for Game 3. One of them, the Wizards, went up 2-0 on the road in the first round...
View ArticleJosh Smith Finds Dwight Howard For The Alley-Oop Off The Pick-And-Roll
Former Motor City pariah Josh Smith is in the middle of a professional Renaissance. He’s been instrumental in helping the Houston Rockets seize control of their opening-round series against the Dallas...
View ArticleWho Runs The Big-To-Big Alley-Oop Better: Josh Smith And Dwight Howard Or...
Getty Image For casual fans not yet indoctrinated into the night-to-night loveliness of NBA League Pass, it might seem odd that the big titans down low are increasingly becoming some of the most...
View ArticleGuess What Kevin McHale Whispered In Josh Smith’s Ear After Getting Punched...
Josh Smith was excited, understandably so. He had just scored 20 points and grabbed 8 rebounds in the closeout game of his first playoff series for the Rockets. Head coach Kevin McHale had a kind word...
View ArticleJosh Smith Is Expected To Sign With The Pelicans On An Injury Hardship...
Getty Image The New Orleans Pelicans have been as snakebitten as any team in the NBA this season when it comes to injuries, with Rajon Rondo, Solomon Hill, and Alexis Ajinca all out for significant...
View ArticleJosh Smith Doesn’t Want To Be Forgotten
Getty Image TORONTO – Last week, as Josh Smith wrapped up what would turn out to be his final practice with the New Orleans Pelicans by competing in a spirited scrimmage, head coach Alvin Gentry...
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