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In just 4 years, the Kings will be under their third head coach after the Kings fired Reggie Theus who had an unimpressive 6-18 start this season. He was just in his second season and hadn’t reach 100 games yet. He was 44-62 in barely over a year as head coach and will be replaced by assistant coach Kenny Natt who is coaching the Kings game tonight against the Timberwolves. (more…)

Mike D’Antoni will be facing his old team for the first time tonight as he tries to lead his New York Knicks against the Phoenix Suns. Both teams have gone opposite directions this year as the Knicks are looking like a team finally making the playoffs after years of missing it while the Suns look like a borderline playoff team after years of dominance.

It would be interesting to see how Steve Nash will play with a different lineup from a year ago against his former coach, who’s system helped Nash win back to back MVP. (more…)

I have never known a trade to be such a win-win situation for the players and the teams involved. The trade that sent Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas to the Knicks for Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins did just that. With this trade, the Clippers got another scorer and rebounder in the lowpost that could help them win now. The Knicks, however, got a player who will be forced to retire due to a heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Despite Mobley failing the physical, the Knicks still went on with the deal to be able to unload Randolph’s huge contract. (more…)

Glen Davis is one big guy. His nickname is “Big Baby.” He got that when was playing in the peewee leagues. Since he used to play with the older (not necessarily bigger) kids, he would whine at times and the name stuck. He continued his whining and crying in the game against Portland, which can be seen in the video.

With about six minutes left in the game, the Boston Celtics had to bring back their starters after their bench let the Blazers trim their 25 point lead to 13. This led to a timeout where KG gathered his team and had some things – probably nasty – to say to his teammates, especially the bench players. It appeared that Big Baby didn’t want to listen to what KG was trying to say or maybe he just had enough what he heard. I don’t know what was said but that led to Big Baby crying and throwing his towel to the floor.

Is it a big issue that Big Baby cried?

No! Big Baby is an emotional guy. He loves the sport and so does Kevin Garnett. All the starters were out relaxing on the bench when they had to be called to enter the game again. When your mentally out of the game and already icing your knees or ankles, the last thing you want to do is to go back in the game. KG just had to do what he had to do. He plays with a lot of emotions and he wants to really win. If he needs to get into the heads of his teammates, he will. They’re both professionals and KG will try to talk to Big Baby just to follow up on what happened out there.

“I’ll probably get real deep with him,” Garnett said. “Try to understand what he’s going through right now, research the problem. But Baby is frustrated a little bit with some of what we are doing. He just has to understand his role and not come outside of it.”

Maybe Big Baby was just sensitive about what KG said and just got frustrated. He hasn’t had a good sophomore season where he is just averaging 3.6 ppg and 3.9 ppg in 16 minutes a night. What’s worse is that he is shooting just 33.3% from the field and for a big man that is unacceptable. I know that he is just playing back up after a great career at LSU but he will have his chances and I still believe can be a good role player but he needs to grow up fast.

Another thing, it’s just funny how Gabe Pruitt just sits as if nothing was wrong with Big Baby. He has got one good poker face!

After this crying incident, Big Baby has officially carried his nickname to the NBA.

Thanks to hoopdoctors.com for the video.

 
According to the Turnkey Team Brand Index(TTBI), the Green Bay Packers are the number one team for fan loyalty among 122 sports teams (NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL). This was taken based on last season’s performance and a big reason for this is that they still had Brett Favre.

In the top 20, there were 7 NFL teams, 3 MLB teams, 5 NHL teams and 5 NBA teams. The Boston Celtics had the biggest jump from 104th place last year to 9th this year basically because of their championship win. People from Boston do love their fans and for a good reason: Boston teams are winning. That’s why it’s no wonder that three out of the top 20 teams are from Boston (Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots).

As for the bottom teams, four out of the five teams are from the NBA. Since the survey was taken before the start of the season, one of those teams is the Seattle Supersonics (now the Oklahoma City Thunder). I am very curious to how much the people of Oklahoma are supportive of their new team. Will they be a top brand next year with their top three (Durant, Green and Westbrook) running the show or will they still be in the bottom?

I have no crystal ball of anything to guess the future but maybe the move to Oklahoma City can get them out of the bottom teams based on fan support/marketability. I’m guessing that New York will be in the top 50 next year because 1.) New York is a BIG market 2.) D’Antoni and Walsh have got New York running and 3.) Isaiah Thomas is gone.