Sara Peters is a 17-year journalist who covers cybersecurity by day, basketball by night. She spent the past four seasons enduring a relentless barrage of losses as a featured New York Knicks columnist for Bleacher Report. She loves driving point guards, passing centers, scrambles for loose balls, buzzer-beating blocks, Allen Iverson, and tearful memories of Drazen Petrovic. Sara lives in Queens. Follow her on Twitter @3FromThe7.
The league’s best perimeter defense was being wasted by the Detroit Pistons. Impressive as their three-ball-killing was, it couldn’t compensate for sluggish, inefficient offense. So, they made a change: scrap the defense. And it’s working. By shifting the defensive focus from the perimeter to the interior—and the offensive focus from the interior to the perimeter—Detroit…
Al Horford is wide open for the game-winning triple. Just moments after the Boston Celtics’ big man sinks a long ball to tie the score with under a minute to go, the Milwaukee Bucks, now up by one, leave Horford free behind the arc again during the final possession. Yet, instead of delivering the rock…
Anyone who hasn’t been watching the Atlanta Hawks this season took notice of their sophomore power forward Friday night during the NBA Rising Stars Challenge when John Collins announced himself with a fast-break, self-assisted, one-handed alley-oop slam. It was merely a preview. Collins will compete tonight in the NBA Dunk Contest. Dominique Wilkins—Hawks legend, Hall…
The loose collection of men that gathers on the Boston Garden’s sidelines, carrying clipboards and wearing shamrock jerseys is not a team, just “a bunch of individuals.” What is wrong with the Boston Celtics? Finding that answer is an infuriating challenge. What’s missing? Everything should be feeling right for this roster. The team rolled into…
NBA television ratings overall are down since last year but, according to commissioner Adam Silver, nobody at the league is concerned. It might just be big talk, but a closer look at viewers’ shifting consumption patterns shows that there may indeed be little cause for alarm. At least not for now. While media technology advances,…
The New York Knicks have found yet another way to fail at rebuilding: Slash-and-Burn. The Knicks traded injured star stretch-4 Kristaps Porzingis, point guard Trey Burke and veteran wings Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. to the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday. In exchange? Sophomore point guard Dennis Smith Jr. and two veterans on expiring contracts,…
Feb. 17, a great wrong shall be righted: the Charlotte Hornets’ Kemba Walker—snubbed and diminished for years—will be a starter in the NBA All-Star Game. And it will be the only time during the 2018-19 regular season that Walker will ever appear on the TNT network. That’s right, neither a single Hornets game has aired…
The first quarter ends at Madison Square Garden, and Russell Westbrook is 0-2 from the field versus one of the league’s worst teams. One or two seasons ago, this might portend doom for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now, it’s hardly noticed. Westbrook does not lead the league in scoring; he doesn’t even lead his team in…
We were wrong when we thought we were wrong about the Utah Jazz. With a win over the Cleveland Cavaliers Friday night, the Jazz have inched a half-game ahead of the L.A. Lakers and finally cracked into the West’s top eight for the first time since early November. (They’re actually in seventh, now that the…
It’s Color Wars week at Ariel Levy’s high school. So, the 18-year-old senior can skip class to call me. Or call one of the 13 basketball players the sports agency he founded represents. At least every other day, Levy calls them: Professional basketball players in the US and abroad, from Germany to Chile to Israel,…
