There isn’t a game on the schedule where Eric Gordon doesn’t come in handy, but against Boston’s ball pressure in the halfcourt, EJ’s absence is especially costly. The Celtics’ defense focuses on cutting off large swaths of the floor with hard traps. The best way to alleviate that pressu[...]
The Clippers bolster their badly depleted backcourt. From Marc Stein of ESPN: The New Orleans Hornets have lined up the last move they need to make to get under the NBA’s luxury-tax threshold. NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com that the Hornets have reached a verbal agreement on a trade wi[...]