Bri The Sports Guy – Blog

Five Thirty Eight (a terrific stats driven website) has the Hawks winning only 29 games in 2019-20 we think they will win more The case for the Hawks The Hawks won 29 games last season so Five Thirty Eight is projecting no improvement this season.  We expect a win...

Boogie's latest injury Unfortunately Demarcus "Boogie" Cousins, who was set to start the 2019/20 NBA season as the Lakers starting center, (on a $3.5MM prove it deal), has a torn ACL which will likely keep him out of action for the entire 2019/20 season.  This injury,...

NL Wild Card Race The last 6-7 weeks are shaping up to be very exciting in the National League.  Per yesterday's standings the Nationals, Cardinals, Brewers and Mets were within 1.5 games of each other-4 teams fighting for the two NL Wild Card spots.  The D Backs and...

Kyle Korver signs with Mike's Milwaukee Bucks Bucks fan Mike is delighted with this signing.  Not only do the Bucks add an all time sharp shooter but they keep him away from the 76ers who appear to be the biggest challenger to the Bucks in the East in 2019/20.  My...

Westbrook leaves OKC for Houston for Chris Paul and draft picks/swaps This is an exciting move for Houston and puts them squarely in the mix in the Western Conference.  Westbrook and Harden are both super high usage players but we are counting on their personal...

We expect the most wide open season in many years As Zach Lowe reports for ESPN three to five teams now have at least two perennial All Star players: Nets: Irving and Durant (once he returns) plus Deandre Jordan, Lavert, and Harris, with a nice bench Dinwiddie, Jarett...

Warriors, Thunder and Rockets(?) on the decline while Lakers, Mavs and Pelicans improve

In todays blog we provide some highlights on 2019 NBA Finals game 5 and then get into a few NBA free agency topics (including the league wide impact of Kevin Durant’s injury last night)