Liveblogging the Craziness of the Regular Season's Final Night
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopWelcome to the last night of the 2008-2009 NBA regular season, where there are five games to determine matchups in five of the NBA's eight first-r...
Blog | April 15, 2009Live-Blogging: New Orleans at Orlando
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPosted by Kevin Arnovitz Pre-game Notes: Both Chris Paul and Jameer Nelson come into this afternoon's game as reigning Conference Players of the...
Blog | December 25, 2008The Hornets Win Game 5
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...right there with Chandler and Paul in the hot zone. Also, look at Chandler compared to Melvin Ely in the May 6th game.One of the clearest ways to see how experience can make...
Blog | May 14, 2008First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopPistons vs. Magic Rob Parker of The Detroit News: "A lot of the credit for this team has to go to president Joe Dumars, who has put this well-oiled ...
Blog | May 14, 2008Spurs Stung Twice in the Hornets' Nest
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopIn the end, the defending champions lost twice, badly, against the team that everybody thought was not yet ready for prime time. The San Antonio Spurs...
Blog | May 06, 2008Don't Cast that MVP Vote
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...According to the Defensive Rating numbers, our best defenders this season are, in order: Marcus Vinicius, Melvin Ely, Rasual Butler, Bobby Jackson, Ryan Bowen, David West, and Jannero Pargo. Everyone else on the team...
Blog | April 15, 2008Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopIn a cavalcade of Celtic interviews with SLAM's Michael Tillery, Kevin Garnett says: "My mom is intense man. My grandmother is intense. I have an olde...
Blog | March 12, 2008Big Men on the Loose
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...take advantage of the newish hand-check rules. As a result, big men like Loren Woods, Melvin Ely, and, until a few hours ago, Kelvin Cato, (help me out here, I know there are...
Blog | October 25, 2006Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopWhat happened to Jeff McInnis in New Jersey? Dave D'Alessandro reports: "All I can tell you is he’s been a good soldier, never gave the coa...
Blog | April 18, 2006Tuesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Johnson. Two of the three dirtiest players in the league play for Seattle.Travis Outlaw for Melvin Ely? This could be Jermaine O'Neal/Dale Davis II.Half a season after being thrilled to...
Blog | February 14, 2006J.R. Smith rebounds from benching
Seth Landman, Special to ESPN.com...for steals and 3s; he just doesn't provide anything else. … Neither Hilton Armstrong nor Melvin Ely inspired much confidence in the absence of Tyson Chandler, who missed the game for personal reasons...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 28, 2008Yao, Artest carry load for Rockets
Seth Landman, Special to ESPN.comIn Dallas, the Rockets came out with a win because their duo of Ron Artest and Yao Ming outperformed the Mavericks' duo of Dirk Nowitzki and Josh Howa...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 31, 2008How 'bout that Big Baby
Brian McKitish, Special to ESPN.comIn a game that lived up to its billing, Boston rode a big fourth quarter to top the Pistons 92-85 on Saturday night. The Big Three studs were held mos...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 06, 2008Rank comments -- Feb. 23
Marc Stein...you totally written off my Spurs, you literally don't write anything about them. Trading for Melvin Ely was a nice little move and the last two games of our road trip were a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2007
Jersey coulda done better
...about any one particular player. (The Nets had also discussed the possibility of acquiring power forward Melvin Ely from Charlotte, which was reportedly asking for a first-round draft pick for Ely.) "Just to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 04, 2007
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