Rajon Rondo is a passing savant.  The man finds such impossible passing angles that you wonder if he’s living in a Matrix-type world.  Defensively, can drive you more insane than an attacking swarm of bees.   Yet for all his strengths, there are also glaring weaknesses.  His jumpshot is… actually, I’ll leave it at that. […]

The Miami Heat are 2-1 favorites to win the NBA title.  And when you’ve got a team that good, it stands to reason that guys looking for new homes in the NBA will want to come knock on your door.   Still more than a week from the Dec. 9 post-lockout start of the NBA […]

There’s a lot of information flying around today now that the lockout is, in theory, over.  Here’s a look at some of the finer points of the deal and how it might affect certain teams. Exceptions: The mid-level exception will be $5 million per year for up to four years for teams over the cap […]

Yes.  That guy.   And I think when THAT guy can take credit for saving your ass, you’ve got some soul searching to do.   Stephon Marbury has been playing in China for a couple of seasons now and he’s learned a few things.  JR Smith has been playing in China for about a month […]

Lockout updates are boring.  It’s all legal-ese and posturing at this point.  So to punch up the latest update where neither side seems inclined to call one another, we turned to Xtranormal (via Red’s Army).   It’s a bit silly, but nowhere near a silly as the actual lockout. 

You might need to watch that a couple of times to get the full effect of it.  That’s Rajon Rondo from his own charity game at Harvard this past weekend.  And that’s Rudy Gay catching the alley oop that Rondo had headbutted to him. The most amazing part of that is how they managed to […]

This ought to be fun.  LeBron James is going back to Akron to play ball.  With no end to the NBA lockout in sight, the All-Star group is set to lead a four-game “Homecoming Tour,” starting with a matchup in James’ hometown of Akron, Ohio on Dec. 1, followed by a Dec. 4 game in […]

As if Andrei Kirilenko’s head bouncing of the floor isn’t bad enough, there was another overseas injury nightmare this weekend.  JR Smith hurt his knee in one of those non-contact injuries that always scares the hell out of you.  Here’s video of the injury (via the Denver Post): It’s just an awkward step and then […]

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have a little competition going:  who can publicly embarrass more young children?  Last summer, Dwyane Wade spent some time blocking, taunting and dunking on kids.  Then, at his camp, he spent some more time rejecting kids during a game of “knockout”.  LeBron, for his part, also dunked on a kid […]

Everyone who has written about the NBA lockout tosses out hyperbolic phrases like “welcome to armageddon” or “this is a tragedy.”  Well, we nearly saw a real tragedy this week when a gunman opened fire inside a popular nightclub in the Chelsea section of New York.  One man, sadly, was killed.  And among the patrons inside were some […]

One Million Dollar Film is a production company.  It wants business.  So it decided to show what it can do by turning to the NBA ranks to find its star.  And they found…  From the World Champion Dallas Mavericks…… IAN MAHINMI!!! Huh? Yup.  Ian Mahinmi, who had more fouls (16) than points (11) in the […]

Eddy Curry might be the poster boy for the NBA lockout, but Larry Hughes should probably be in the team picture. Hughes spent 12 seasons in the league.  His career averages (14.2 ppg, 3.2 apg, 4.2 rpg) are ok, but not spectacular.  His career shooting percentage (40.7%) is awful when you consider his job was […]