NBA Power Wankings – 01 Feb 2009

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...

NBA Power Wankings 01dec08

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...

NBA Preview 2008/09 – The East

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...

NBA Preview 2008/09 – The West

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...

NBA 2008 Free Agent Primer – Teams M to Z

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...

NBA 2008 Free Agent Primer – A to M

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...