Via. NBA.com The Memphis Grizzlies returned home Wednesday night following a crazy two game split on the East coast. Memphis pulled out a tough double overtime victory against the Nets in Brooklyn, only to fall a run short two nights later in Philadelphia against the revamped 76ers. During that East coast road trip, Memphis added an All-Star and former Defensive Player of the Year to their roster to bolster their depth. The addition of Joakim Noah to the Memphis Grizzlies cou

Via. Sports Illustrated After 24 games of his fourth season as the Chicago Bulls head coach, Fred Hoiberg found himself jobless early Monday. The Bulls front office had seen enough, preferring the guiding hand of Hoiberg’s associate head coach Jim Boylen, a member of the Gregg Popovich coaching tree and a coach under Hoiberg since 2015. But this story isn’t about Hoiberg, and it’s only a little about Boylen; this is a story of team mismanagement from the front-office down, so

Via. USAToday Quietly, Lonzo Ball is starting to change the narrative around his play. For the past few games, dating back to the Los Angeles Lakers’ meeting with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Ball has been playing with an ingredient many believe he has lacked: aggression. And he’s doing so with more consistency. Last year, Ball had games in which he made it a point to attack the basket, but he could never string those types of games together. For the last two weeks, his aggressio

The NBA is experiencing a seismic shift in the landscape of power. The East boasts three of the best teams within the same division. Toronto, Boston, and Philadelphia each vie for the top spot in in the conference. The West remains dominated by the Warriors, but a look at the top five may surprise you. The balance of power shifts while competitive nature intensifies. The only constant throughout the league are the kicks that hit the floor every night. OTG Basketball has you c

QUEENS, NY – When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. At least in this case, “you” happens to be most of the NBA universe and fandom. Four teams opened the regular season. It’s more than coincidence these exact four teams happen to represent the finalists for the Larry O’Brien trophy. The Houston Rockets host the defending champion Golden State Warriors, a favorite to carry through for another run at the title. The Warriors seem unboth

The second round of the NBA playoffs is underway and the dust has finally settled on one of the most entertaining first rounds in recent memory.In this roundtable, we make our pick for the MVP of the first round. Jrue Holiday Preston Ellis - @Preston Ellis Jrue Holiday. A sensational positive net rating of 17 (!) in 37 minutes per game, 28 points on 57% shooting, 35% from three with seven assists and four rebounds to just three turnovers. If that isn’t enough to get your att

The second round is underway and the dust has finally settled on one of the most entertaining first rounds in recent memory. In this roundtable, we make our pick for the most dissapoiting team of the first round. Portland Trail Blazers Jonathan Ebrahimi - @Awrashoo The most disappointing team thus far has been the Portland Trailblazers. After a great season where they locked up the third seed, they flamed out of the first round in dramatic fashion, getting swept by the Pelica

The second round of the NBA playoffs is underway and the dust has finally settled on one of the most entertaining first rounds in recent memory. In this roundtable, we make our pick for the most surprising team of the first round. New Orleans Pelicans Jonathan Ebrahimi - @Awrashoo The most impressive team in this year’s first round has been the New Orleans Pelicans. The fact that they are missing their second best player and were able to sweep the higher seeded Trail Blazers

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Season Recap: The Indiana Pacers came into this year with lottery team expectations, they finished fifth in the Eastern conference with 48 wins. It’s been a season where Victor Oladipo elevated his game to All-star caliber. Pacers had a talent for the unexpected this season, when trailing by 15 or more points the Pacers came back to win 8 times this year. Not to mention Darren Collison finished number one in three point percentage at 46.8%. Nate McMillan in his second year in

Season Recap: Even though Vegas had the Miami Heat correctly slotted as the 6th seed at the beginning of the season, I still think they are a surprise team. They completely flipped the script on the “Big 3” model that won them two titles. Instead of sporting a top-heavy roster, they just throw 10 guys at you that are all solid. While teams are clamoring to get a superstar or two, the Heat just keep reloading and competing for the playoffs. The Heat lost Mr. Irrational Confide

Season Recap: After losing Gordon Hayward in free agency, most people expected the Jazz to take a step back. For a while, it looked like they did. They were left for dead with a 19-28 record near the end of January. Then, they went on a 29-6 run ending the season as the hottest team in the league. They nearly climbed all the way to the three seed until they lost against the Blazers on the last night of the season. They enter the playoffs with 48 wins and a five seed despite m

Defensive Player of the Year, the guy who no player wants to see matched up across from them. The guy every coach knows is going to cause issues and disrupt the flow of an offense. This aside from Most Valuable Player is by far one of the best awards given out. In a league full of offense we sometimes take for granted or forget the ones who make scoring just a little tougher. It's time to decide who is the Defensive Player of the Year! Evan Dyal - @EvanDyal Defensive Player o

This is one of the most feel-good NBA awards there is, period. This award is for the guy who stood out the most from a previous season, the guy who took his game farther than most predicted, or sooner than most expected. It's not something that happens as often as it may seem, that being players taking their game to a level higher than most thought was possible. Here's who we at Off the Glass have selected as Most Improved Player of the Year. Evan Dyal - @EvanDyal Most Improv

The spark plug, the first guy off the pine, one of the biggest contributors to any team's success. Yes, we're talking about the sixth man. Eric Gordon held this award last year, and Jamal Crawford has held it a couple times in the past five years. A past winner and runner-up last season may be a favorite this year, we weigh in. Theo Salaun - @TheoSalaun Eric Gordon, Sixth Man of the Year It is not a fun or exciting pick, but Eric Gordon is probably going to win Sixth Man of t

It's time for another roundtable, we've been dishing these out over at OTG more times than Russell Westbrook records a triple-double. Okay, maybe not, but it feels pretty damn close to that. A better example may be the revolving door of head coaches over in Sacramento or the amount of knee injuries Derrick Rose has suffered. Hopefully, one of them landed and hit home with you, the reader. This roundtable we discuss who our choices are for Coach of the Year, proudly, we all do

The calendar has now flipped to March, and the stretch drive of the 2017-18 NBA regular season is here. The stretch drive of the fantasy basketball season is also here, so here are my five waiver wire adds for the coming week. Note: All stats (trends, etc.) are through games on March 3. Montrezl Harrell, PF/C, Los Angeles Clippers There has been a case for Harrell as a waiver wire add for a while, and I’m finally on board. Over his last five games, Harrell is averaging 16.6 p

It’s post all-star break, and teams and players had a few days to rest. We as writers had a couple days/nights of not knowing what to do with ourselves. So, we hit the drawing board to bring you this roundtable! Players breakout all the time, some being role players, others being stars. It’s playoff-push time for some, it's earning a contract for others and for some it's simply about playing dominantly. In this OTG roundtable we talk about which Eastern Conference players we

A trade that was mocked and ridiculed is now a trade that seems as equal if not more in the Pacers favor. June 30th, 2017, Pacers fans saw the end of an era, the Paul George (PG-13) era. In return for sending out Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Indiana Pacers as we know received Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. Following this trade, many (including myself) predicted the new Pacers being a lottery team. To quote myself, I said, “At best the Pacers are a 32 wi

This here is the third installment of get your money and EAT! I’ll be giving you 3 lineups, these lineups are based on production and overall quality of match-ups. Two lineups are built around stars and the third is based on great value picks. 1. LeBron James and the Cavs will be up against the Pistons who are playing a back to back, the big dog himself should lead the way. LeBron when he plays will always have the respect of being in one lineup! (So far on BDGE DFS LeBron li