Color Challenge: Pink and Green
Month: March 2014
Rockets’ Beverley not lost for season
By Fran Blinebury, NBA.com
HOUSTON –Prior to Saturday night’s game against the Clippers, Pat Beverley said if the medical staff would let him just slip a protective brace onto his injured right knee, he would have been back in the Rockets’ lineup.
That time might now be closer than originally thought.
Following an examination by renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews, the word is that Beverley will be able to avoid surgery for the torn meniscus and be able to return to the court after several weeks of rehab.
When Beverley suffered the injury on Thursday, it initially was thought that he was lost for the season, which would have been a significant blow since he brings critical aggressiveness and defense to the Rockets’ starting lineup.
However, following another MRI and an exam at his office in Alabama, Andrews determined that Beverley will be able to work his way back…
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Pacers, Spurs arrive at East-West showdown in very different spots
By Steve Aschburner, NBA.com
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VIDEO:GameTime’s crew previews tonight’s Spurs-Pacers game
INDIANAPOLIS – Contender vs. (wince) pretender.
A marvelous 17-game winning streak vs. all sorts of horrible losing shrieks.
A mastermind boss and a core of proven veterans quick to remind themselves they don’t have all the answers vs. a coaching staff and players who desperately are searching for pretty much any anwers they can find.
This is not, in short, what anyone expected for Monday’s late-season meeting of the San Antonio Spurs and the Indiana Pacers (7 p.m. ET, NBA TV).
Oh, the Spurs have held up their end of things, more than that really, in what technically is a rematch of the Pacers’ 111-100 victory in December. But the Indiana team that dominated that night and left AT&T Center with an 18-2 record is nowhere to be found today. Even the comfort…
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Color Challenge: Pink and Green
Morning Shootaround — March 31
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VIDEO:The Daily Zap for games played March 30
NEWS OF THE MORNING
Struggling Pacers have hit rock bottom | Knicks finally ready to close in on 8th spot | Win or lose, Lakers facing crossroads this summer | The age of analytics or overload? | Haywood says one-and-done kids hurt NBA game
No. 1:Struggling Pacers have hit rock bottom after loss to Cavaliers — The Indiana Pacers have officially hit rock bottom. Sure, it’s a strange thing to say about a team that currently occupies the top spot in the Eastern Conference standings. But there is no other way to describe what the Pacers are going through after watching them get taken apart by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Their current state of affairs is not conducive to a long and productive postseason run. And after warnings being sounded from every direction, including Pacers’ boss Larry Bird, the…
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