Author: Soccerhuz
The NBA Clutch Player of the Year has only been handed out twice, making it the league’s newest honor. Miami Heat All-Star Tyler Herro has been nominated by head coaches as his team’s top candidate. De’Aaron Fox won the inaugural award when he was with the Sacramento Kings in 2022-23, while Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry was last season’s honoree. The award is voted on by media after coaches nominate candidates, with the winner receiving the Jerry West Trophy. Herro averaged a career-best 23.9 points and was named to the All-Star team for the first time. He played in…
The Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat will be hoping to keep their NBA Playoff hopes alive when they face off in the play-in tournament at the United Center on Thursday. The Bulls ended the regular season with a record of 39-43 and in ninth place in the Eastern Conference, while the Heat finished in 10th, two games behind them on 34-45. A spot in the play-in tournament final round against either the Atlanta Hawks or Orlando Magic awaits the winner of this match, while the loser will be eliminated from the postseason. The Chicago Bulls will be hoping that it…
Back when Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James was just getting his career going in Cleveland in the mid-2000s, Steve Nash and Mike D’Antoni were making the Phoenix Suns the NBA’s most exciting team. D’Antoni came over to Phoenix from Italy with a new, innovative offense and Nash was the perfect point guard to run it, immediately turning the Suns into a championship contender and winning back-to-back MVPs in 2005 and 2006. The Suns’ style of play was unheard of at the time, focusing far more on up-tempo, spread out basketball with a lot of 3-pointers and ball movement. Though…
Inter and Milan’s attempts to purchase the San Siro land has hit another problem, as an appeal is lodged to block the sale. The two clubs have been fighting for a decade to get a new stadium built in what is effectively now the car park of the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, after which they can tear down the existing structure and repurpose it. After a series of proposed projects were considered and rejected by the local authorities, they went back to Plan A, with the council seemingly in favour of the sale. However, there are still people trying to block…
Milan CEO Giorgio Furlani is reportedly meeting with Igli Tare today, the new hot favourite to take over as director of sport after Fabio Paratici talks collapsed. Multiple sources including Sky Sport Italia and La Gazzetta dello Sport note that the encounter is happening this evening in Rome. They will go over the specifics of the project as well as the terms of the contract, closing in on a final decision. Paratici had been on the verge of signing the paperwork when problems arose over the on-going ban for artificially inflating profit margins on transfers while at Juventus. Although the…
Francesco Totti has revealed that both AC Milan and Inter tried very hard to sign him from AS Roma, but were forced to give up their pursuit. There is no doubting that Totti is one of the legends of Italian football and of Roma. The forward spent his entire career with his beloved Giallorossi, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. During that time, he became the second-top scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals, amassing 316 goals across all competitions. He remains adored to this day by most…
Divock Origi — a name you may have forgotten is still part of Milan’s team. The truth is that not much is known about Divock. The Belgian forward, who returned in the summer from his negative loan experience at Nottingham Forest, has essentially been out of the list for several months. The Rossoneri tried to offload him elsewhere, he was demoted in rank, and for a short time he trained with Milan Futuro like Fodé Ballo-Touré. If the Senegalese, however, at least managed to make one appearance, the same cannot be said for the former Liverpool player, who has effectively…
The leader of the Curva Sud – Luca Lucci – has claimed to have had contacts with current members of the AC Milan management while under house arrest. The world of Italian football was gripped by yet another scandal last October, and this time it is a bit closer to home as it concerns the ultras from the two sides of the city: AC Milan’s Curva Sud and Inter’s Curva Nord. We wrote about the case at length in a bonus article. As La Gazzetta dello Sport report, on the Inter side the six men arrested as part of the…
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has emphasized that his side need to control both the game and their emotions against Arsenal in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final at the Santiago Bernabeu. Los Blancos are at a three-goal deficit after a damaging defeat at the Emirates last week. Ancelotti said that mentally his side were in good shape ahead of the clash. “The support from the fans has helped us a lot in recent years. Tomorrow we need a game at our best to try to turn around a tie that’s very complicated. Tomorrow we’ll try to change…
Much of the slim hope that Real Madrid has of completing a historic comeback in the Champions League against Arsenal is pinned on Kylian Mbappé, who nearly single-handedly mounted a comeback against Argentina in the final of the 2022 World Cup held in Qatar. He was signed as the superstar who steps up in these moments, and for that reason, Real Madrid held an emergency meeting with him after the incident last weekend against Alavés. Undoubtedly, Kylian Mbappé’s red card in the first half against Alavés was the clearest example of the frustration and helplessness Real Madrid has been experiencing…