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Will Bruce Bowen Play Next Season?

There's a loophole in the NBA's trading rules that goes something like this: one team will include a player in a deal -- usually a guy who's older, can still play a bit, but won't command a ton of attention on the open market -- only to see that player waived by his new team, and be signed a month later by the team that...

Kobe Meets Shane Battier's Force Field

No one can stop Kobe Bryant. The Laker is too talented, too aggressive and too focused to let any defender keep him under lock and key. Houston is a team predicated on tough defense, with arguably the conference's two best perimeter defenders in the line-up. One can imagine Kobe figured in Daryl Morey's decision to trade...

Longtime Spur on Bruce Bowen: He's Dirty

Via BallHype, SpursReport caught a great broadcasting moment during Friday's Houston-San Antonio match. Rockets analyst (and old gunner) Matt Bullard revealed what Brent Barry, a Spur teammate of Bruce Bowen for four years, thinks of The Rash.There's not a player, coach or fan outside of San Antonio's sphere of connection...

Denver Won't Buyout Antonio McDyess

Soon after the news broke that Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb were headed to Denver in exchange for Allen Iverson, word started to trickle out that McDyess might retire than reportI can't say I was surprised -- I was in the Pistons' locker room after they were eliminated from the Conference Finals last...

Headlines to Watch: Southwest Division

Check out FanHouse's NBA Preview.This is not a division. It is a gauntlet. A spiked, imperial gauntlet inhabited by minotaurs, pterodactyls, stone giants, warrior pygmy tribes, and other things that go bump in the night. There is no sense of "If we can just make it to .500" in this division. .500 means nothing. .500 is...