Coming off the heels of three-straight losses in which the Sacramento Kings looked like a roster that had just gone through a gigantic mid-season overhaul, Dave Joerger went back to five OG Kings to start off tonights matchup with the Jazz . Oddly enough, the Kings looked like a coherent basketball team again! The OG Kings got off to a very solid start.
NBA veteran JaVale McGee has been the poster boy for Shaquille O'Neal's weekly "Shaqtin' a Fool" segment on TNT's "Inside the NBA," which highlights the league's most boneheaded plays, dating from the time in 2012 when the former Wizards center ran back on defense while his team still had the ball . On Thursday's edition of "Inside the NBA," O'Neal said he'd lay off McGee, who is averaging 6.1 points and three rebounds for the Warriors, "starting next week."
NBA veteran JaVale McGee has been the poster boy for Shaquille O'Neal's weekly "Shaqtin' a Fool" segment on TNT's "Inside the NBA," which highlights the league's most boneheaded plays, dating from the time in 2012 when the former Wizards center ran back on defense while his team still had the ball . On Thursday's edition of "Inside the NBA," O'Neal said he'd lay off McGee, who is averaging 6.1 points and three rebounds for the Warriors, "starting next week."
Late in the Sacramento Kings ' 116-100 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Thursday, the Kings did something really weird. You know the "walk the dog" move that teams use to preserve as much time on the shot clock as possible? Well, Ty Lawson used it in order to milk the game clock.
Golden State Warriors' Javale McGee celebrates a basket by the Warriors during their game against the Charlotte Hornets in the second quarter at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Feb. 1. Instead of using a clip of McGee for his Shaqtin' A Fool bit, as he has often done, O'Neill clowned the Warriors forward with a spoof of the movie "Doctor Strange" for a segment TNT called "Shaqademy Awards." "This doesn't make any sense" Shaq said in the video, dressed in a black hoodie.
The battle for the eighth seed in the Western Conference is shaping up to be a three-team race between the Sacramento Kings , Denver Nuggets and Portland Trail Blazers . The New Orleans Pelicans are also right there and to a lesser extent, so are the Lakers .