Posted on 01 February 2009 by Matt Turvey
Now that the Super Bowl is thankfully over for another year, it’s time to trot out the February 2009 edition of desipio.com’s NBA Power Wankings.
Like every single other two-bit sporting website, these authoritative ‘rankings’ are really little more a subjective listing of each team’s relative position - based on either the current Standings, the recent play of each team or the whim of the individual sportswriter - that are essentially worthless, argumentative and go out of date as soon as they’re written…
So what are you waiting for?
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Posted on 01 December 2008 by Matt Turvey
It was around a decade ago when ESPN first launched a wonderful and original concept called NBA Power Rankings. Anyone could see that this was little more than a subjective listing of each team’s relative position - based on either the current Standings, the recent play of each team or the whim of the individual sportswriter - that are essentially worthless, argumentative and go out of date as soon as they’re written. They’re a joke, really.
So, with the 2008/09 season reaching the 1st December, it’s about time desipio.com got into the act. How hard can it be to get a dump of all NBA teams with a little pithy sentence or statistic accompanying each one?
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Posted on 30 October 2008 by Matt Turvey
Sure, the new NBA season has already started, but you can rest assured that the second half of this exclusive desipio.com preview of the 2008/09 campaign was written in advance. Mostly.
Anyway, it’s not as if it matters, it’s only the Eastern Conference…
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Posted on 28 October 2008 by Matt Turvey
The World Series isn’t over, technically, but the National Basketball Association insists it’s now basketball season. Last year, the Western Conference delighted fans of good teams (and dismayed fans of bad ones) with one of the most competive races in sports history.
What will happen this year? Well, desipio.com is here to find out.
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Posted on 02 August 2008 by Matt Turvey
Welcome to Part 2 of desipio.com’s 2008 NBA offseason reference guide.
Over the past fortnight, the trade and free agent action hasn’t stopped, which makes it all the more unusual that big names such as Josh Smith, Andre Iguodala and Ben Gordon all remain unsigned as we enter the month of August.
This exploration of each completed transaction, plus the inside scoop on each upcoming one, concludes here with the League’s final 15 teams – Milwaukee to Washington.
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Posted on 16 July 2008 by Matt Turvey
It’s the NBA Offseason, the time of dastardly free agent deals, lop-sided trades and irrelevant summer-league tourneys.
And, happily for wanna-be sportswriters the world over, it’s also the time where the most authoritative, or most opinionated, NBA journalists take a vacation. This creates a gap in the market for comprehensive team-by-team analyses of current free agents and future roster possibilities.
Here are the first 15 teams – from Atlanta to Miami.
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Posted on 13 March 2008 by Matt Turvey
All eyes in the NBA at the moment are fixed on either the extraordinary battle for playoff spots in the Western Conference. Or the lottery.
There are 4 teams – the Lakers, the Rockets, the Spurs and the Hornets – all within 1½ games of each other at the top of the West Standings, whilst Golden State remain locked in an epic struggle for the final playoff seed with Dallas (1 game ahead) and Denver (2½ games behind).
This situation backgrounds our look into the league this week as we focus on 2 players and 2 teams that had a standout past 7 days;
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