Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Everyone make Magic “disappearing” puns! I love headline writers, especially when it comes to the Orlando Magic playing poorly.  How many “disappearing act” headlines are there today? But they’re appropriate today.  In a game against a […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Lakers drop their third straight Another game of “Kobe vs. the world” with Bryant takine 30 shots and no one else taking more than 12. We’ve said a lot about the Lakers so we’ll keep this […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Is Kobe complaining? Following a 98-87 loss to the Miami Heat, Kobe Bryant said  “We might want to go back to some of the things that we were doing a few weeks ago in terms of […]

Russell Westbrook just became a very rich man, because he’s now the second member of the 2008 draft class (along with Derrick Rose) to get a contract extension.  And man, was it a big one.  All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook has signed a five-year, $80 million contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources told […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  “We should be embarrassed.” That’s San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich after his team blew a 17 point third quarter lead against the Miami Heat.  Oh, and it was part of a 39-12 Miami third quarter […]

Every morning, we’ll have a look at the big news from the previous night’s action in a round up of recaps and reactions from around the web. The Big Headline Tim Duncan’s 24 points and 11 rebounds led the Spurs past the Phoenix Suns on a light day in the NBA (recap). The Big Performers […]

Kids in Oakland, Dallas and Indianapolis will have new posters to put up on their walls soon (kids still do that, right?) thanks to Monta Ellis, David West and Vince Carter. Tyrus Thomas may regret the late decision to jump and challenge Monta on this one. David West took it right to Jermaine O’Neal And […]

Kobe Bryant is, as they say, on fire.  For three straight games, Kobe Bryant has launched 31 shots towards the rim.  For three straight games, enough of those 31 shots have fallen to give him at least 40 points.  He has scored a total of 120 points, going 47-93 from the field, 5-13 from 3, […]

It’s safe to say Knicks fans were excited about Iman Shumpert coming into this season.  And why not?  He’s athletic and he can do a little bit of everything out there.  But he’s doing a lot of one thing:  shooting.  And a relative lack of success doing so is tempering a little of the enthusiasm […]

Every morning, we’ll have a look at the big news from the previous night’s action in a round up of recaps and reactions from around the web. The Big Headline Dwight Howard dropped 45 points and 23 rebounds on the Golden State Warriors.  The the “hack-a-Dwight” strategy sort of went haywire.  He DID shoot barely […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GJWYusm2a-U This is Shaq on the TNT set, heading into a break, clearly not learning from Charles Barkley’s mistake.  The S-bomb comes right at the end… with Kenny Smith knowing right away that the MIC IS ALWAYS HOT!!!! Let’s be honest, you’re surprised it took this long for it to happen. Personally, I’m surprised it […]

Every morning, we’ll have a look at the big news from the previous night’s action in a round up of recaps and reactions from around the web. The Big Headline Kobe Bryant’s scoring binge continued last night as he dropped 40 points on the Utah Jazz in a three point OT win (recap).  Dirk Nowitzki […]

You want to watch a game that features some of the best scorers of all timel in one place?  No need to wait for All Star Weekend.  Just tune in to tonight’s Mavericks-Celtics game.  ESPN Dallas notes that five of the top seven active scoring leaders will all be on the court at the same […]

I don’t know how these guys did it, or how they lasted so long, but these two guys in Detroit managed to park themselves between Delonte West and Vince Carter on the Dallas Mavericks’ bench.   You know, considering the Palace’s history with fans and players, you’d think there’d be slightly better security separating them […]