Mark Heisler

Records through Friday (last week's ranking) 1. Cavaliers 57-16 (1): Beatable, occasionally: Loss to Spurs second since Feb. 21. 2. Lakers 53-19 (2): Better start holding prayer vigils for Andrew...

Comment (last week's ranking) 1. Cavaliers 55-15 (1): Don't miss Shaquille O'Neal that badly: 9-1 since he left. Only loss was game LeBron James missed. 2. Lakers 51-18 (2): Can...

In my annual salute to the NCAA tournament, here's the annual mock draft of draft-eligible collegians. Not that it's a scoop in a year in which everyone has the same...

Welcome back, Mike! Oh, you haven't gone anywhere? It only seemed as if Michael Jordan was fading from the scene since, let's face it, he hadn't been omnipresent as the...

Comment (last week's rank) 1. Cavaliers 43-11 (1): Full of themselves, er, so confident they may not make a deal after all. 2. Lakers 41-13 (2): Now we know what...

DALLAS — Peace, it's wonderful. Saturday, 24 hours after the players' angry meeting with the owners, commissioner David Stern called it collective bargaining as usual. It's definitely bargaining as usual...

Now for my eagerly awaited midseason predictions, the only ones with a warning label that reads "Discard after Feb. 28, or sooner." It's not that the NBA season is totally...