The Sacramento Kings were unfairly stripped of an opportunity to finalize a remarkable comeback against the Boston Celtics on April 5, 2024, due to a preposterous non-call by the referees of the game. Per Sports Illustrated: “The NBA Officiating Last Two Minute Report admitted the referee’s mistakes, saying there was a foul on [Sviatoslav] Mykhailiuk and it was an incorrect no-call. This was a crucial missed call by the officiating crew, costing Sacramento the chance to cap off their comeback win.” The Kings tweeted out video of the farcical non-call. https://twitter.com/NBCSKings/status/1776426810580099233 Sacramento Kings Ripped Off Per Yahoo Sports: “The Kings…
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Bronny James has declared for the 2024 NBA draft. Yahoo Sports reports: “The eldest son of Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James announced Friday [April 5, 2024] his intentions to declare for the 2024 NBA Draft while also maintaining his college eligibility and entering the NCAA transfer portal after a single season with the Trojans.” Rapidly Unfolding Events at USC The USC men’s basketball program has been involved in a whirlwind of activity in the first week of April 2024, and amidst the frenzy, rumors swirled that James had entered the transfer portal. In the first week of April, USC’s…
USC has hired Eric Musselman to replace Andy Enfield as its men’s basketball head coach. As reported in Hardwood Heroics, Andy Enfield, who was the Trojans’ head coach for eleven years, is now the head man for the SMU Mustangs. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1775982900653047808 Eric Musselman’s Background 59-year-old Eric Musselman is the son of the late former NBA coach Bill Musselman. Eric Musselman played college basketball at the University of San Diego. He was a member of the 1986-87 USD Toreros team which made it into the NCAA Tournament. He began his coaching career shortly after graduating from college. He started out in…
The Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks square off this evening in a match up featuring two teams fighting for favorable positioning in the playoffs. Going into tonight’s showdown, both teams have 44-31 records. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, N.Y. The Kings are coming off back-to-back wins against the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers. The Knicks are trending in the other direction. They have lost three straight games. The Knicks are also dealing with the demoralizing news that power forward Julius Randle has to undergo season-ending shoulder surgery. Randle is a…
Andy Enfield is leaving USC for SMU. After over a decade as the Trojans’ head coach, Enfield will take over as the new coach of the Mustangs. Andy Enfield’s Background 54-year old Andy Enfield has been involved in basketball throughout his life. Enfield played college basketball at Division III Johns Hopkins, a university in Baltimore, Maryland, which is renowned as an excellent medical school, and which has produced a number of lacrosse championships. Enfield is “considered by many the best [basketball] player in program history.” He was a “shooting guard and graduated with 18 school records. He holds the all-time…
The Sacramento Kings have a clear path to securing a top six seed in the NBA’s Western Conference Playoffs. If the Kings achieve that goal, they will avoid the need to participate in the play-in tournament. As explained at NBA.com, “The 2024 SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament will include teams with the 7th through 10th-highest winning percentages in each conference and take place April 16-19.” The tournament “will determine the teams that fill the seventh and eighth playoff seeds in each conference for the 2024 NBA playoffs.” Naturally, the Kings are striving to earn a top six seed, so as to…
