Playoff Stats of the Day (5/9): Dwyane Wade’s Post Game and Chris Paul’s Clutch Heroics
New York Knicks at Miami Heat (7:00ET on TNT): Miami leads series 3-1 Stat: Dwyane Wade has finished on 21 of his 24 attempts from the restricted area in the playoffs, good for a conversion rate of 88%. Take:…Read More
New York Knicks–Miami Heat: Knicks avoid sweep behind Anthony’s heroics
As long as you keep your expectations realistic, today was a successful date for the New York Knicks. They may have only delayed the inevitable by beating the Miami Heat 89-87, but they got a proverbial…Read More
Miami Heat 104 New York Knicks 94: Knicks Down 0-2 After Failing to Extinguish Heat
How does a team that was just handed a humiliating 100-67 Â loss on national television prepare themselves to come right back to the grisly crime scene where they were just violently destroyed so they…Read More
Playoff Stats of the Day (4/30): Iman Shumpert Injury Not as it Seems, Indy’s Struggle to Finish, and Jason Terry’s Effect on OKC
New York Knicks at Miami Heat (7:00EST on TNT): Heat lead series 1-0 Stat: With Iman Shumpert on the floor this season, Dwyane Wade averaged 10.1 more points and shot 7.5 more free throw attempts per…Read More
Players to Watch on Draft Night
With the NBA Final’s behind us it is now time to look ahead to next Thursday’s NBA Draft. If you haven’t been following the Draft thus far you might not know that this is fixing to be one of the…Read More
The Significance Of The NBA Finals
Just in case you hadn’t heard, the NBA season concluded Sunday when the Dallas Mavericks pulled out…Read More
Taking My Talents….Home!
The Miami Heat’s failure to capitalize on its first shot at an NBA Championship, with their…Read More
Subplots Don’t Matter Now: It’s All About the Game
Not unlike the way the Miami Heat have been covered all season, the NBA Finals coverage has focused as…Read More
I ask the important questions about the Finals: like Do the Mavs close out in 6?
After watching the most entertaining NBA Finals game I’ve ever seen, I have been thinking about…Read More
LeBron Disapearing Down the Stretch? Think Again
Following a Miami victory in game 3 LeBron James was asked a question by a member of the media, Gregg…Read More
Will the Matrix Finally Get the Credit he Deserves?
Over his 13 year NBA career Shawn Marion has been known for many things: his freakish athleticism, his bizarre two-handed jump shot, even his uncanny ability to guard almost any position; however,…Read More
Instant reaction to Finals’ Game 2
Michael Wilbon, Magic Johnson and Jon Berry represented three different schools of thought following the Dallas Mavericks incredible come from behind victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals Thursday night. While…Read More
STS Roundtable: NBA Finals
Happy Finals Day! Today, Saving the Skyhook kicks off our Finals coverage with some very exciting news. We have three new writers joining the team today: Alex McNamee, Neil Noonan and Scott Campsall. Blake…Read More
Finals Preview: This is Not ’06
Having witnessed the fiasco that was the 2006 NBA Finals, it seems rather fitting that the Dallas Mavericks would again face the Miami Heat in a final best of seven series that has the potential to be…Read More
News and Notes: May 27th
The Finals are set. With 3:53 left in the 4th quarter, The Chicago Bulls held a 12 point lead on the Miami Heat. Miami called a timeout, and it looked like Chicago was well on their well to forcing a Game…Read More
Heat 3 – Bulls 1
At the end of the night, it came down to who was going to be able to push through the overtime. Miami’s big three, elevated from the volume of appreciation from their home crowd, were responsible…Read More
News and Notes: May 25th
Amazing game last night between the Heat and the Bulls. A shame that someone had to lose that match up, but at the end of the day, the Heat was better able to push through the OT period and get the win.…Read More
News and Notes: May 23rd
Good morning, Some cool things a’coming on STS this week, but let’s start things off with a look at all things NBA, including some links about this weekend’s Conference Finals. bennyvargas…Read More
News and Notes: May 19th
Much ado in the NBA world today, featuring a big win by the Heat in Game 2 of the ECF, teams reacting to their placement in the draft, and everyone else still trying to figure out how exactly to define…Read More
News and Notes: May 16th
Great day of basketball yesterday, featuring an impressive game 7 performance by Kevin Durant and a monster game 1 from Chicago in their match up against the Heat. No games tonight, but here are some links…Read More









