The Sports Inquirer

Backdoor Cut: Houston Rockets 2010-11 Season Preview or Yao is back!

Time to preview the 2010-11 Houston Rockets Music to listen to: Tush by ZZ Top 　 Last season/offseason changes: Houston had an interesting last season. The Rockets in essence traded Ron Artest for Trevor Ariza and saw the former win a tite with the Lakers. Yao Ming missed nearly all of last season with foot…
Backdoor Cut: San Antonio Spurs 2010-11 Season Preview or Does the band have one more hit song in them?

Time to preview the 2010-11 San Antonio Spurs Music to listen to: Waltz Across Texas by Ernest Tubb 　 Last season/offseason changes: The Spurs put together another 50-win season and a spot in the playoffs last year but it seemed like they were off the entire season. Whether it was Manu Ginobili being nicked up…
Backdoor Cut: Dallas Mavericks 2010-11 Season Preview or Yes, Dirk is a Hall of Famer

Time to preview the 2010-11 Dallas Maverics Music to listen to: Sunrise by Norah Jones Last season/offseason changes: The Mavs finished last year with a record of 55-27 but lost in the first round of the playoffs to San Antonio. The impressive thing is that this was the tenth-consecutive 50-win season for Dallas. Unfortunately, they’ve…
Backdoor Cut: Sacramento Kings 2010-11 Season Preview or Can Cousins and Evans co-exist and if so, look out Western Conference

Time to preview the 2010-11 Sacramento Kings Music to listen to: Passenger by The Deftones Last season/offseason changes: Last season was an interesting year for the Kings. They finished the year 25-57 which doesn’t look good on paper but several good things happened. The Kings were competitive in the second-half of the year. Second, Tyreke…
Backdoor Cut: Golden State Warriors 2010-11 Season Preview or Is there finally optimism in the Bay?

Time to preview the 2010-11 Golden State Warriors Music to listen to: Freaky Tales by Too Short Last season/offseason changes: Outside of the Miami Heat, no team saw as many changes on the court and in the front office than Golden State. First, the Warriors are under new ownership and Don Nelson isn’t an executive…
Backdoor Cut: Los Angeles Clippers 2010-11 Season Preview or How good can Blake Griffin really be?

Time to preview the 2010-11 Los Angeles Clippers Music to listen to: The best of John Frushiante of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers 　 Last season/offseason changes: Last season started off terribly for the Clippers when it was learned that Blake Griffin, the top overall pick of the 2009 draft, was going to miss the…