Ben Wallace was arrested this past weekend for drunk driving, and he faces a serious penalty. Detroit Piston Ben Wallace is facing a 5-year felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon after police found an unloaded pistol in a backpack in his car as they arrested him on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday in Bloomfield […]

Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony were on Law & Order: SVU last night.  Despite my high hopes, they didn’t play buddy cops from Long Island sent to Manhattan SVU to investigate a kidnapping or something.  They actually played themselves… with a little twist.  The show opens with Melo and Bosh giving an introductory speech for […]

The latest round of labor talks have ended for the day, and it’s hard to tell exactly where we’re at.  It seems like both sides are far apart, but it also seems like there may be slow movement towards a resolution.  So this may or may not be posturing, but a couple of quotes stand out […]

Caron Butler didn’t get to celebrate the Dallas Mavericks championship the way he’d hoped.  Dressed in street clothes since rupturing his patellar tendon in January, Butler had to sit and watch the entire playoff run.  But now, 10 months after the injury, Butler is finally going to put on a uniform and ball in front […]

Derrick Rose doesn’t talk much.  But he talked the other day, and he was asked a lot of the same stuff a lot of other NBA players have been asked lately.  Maybe that’s because aside from the lockout and video games, there’s not much to ask about.  And while I’d be amused to hear Zach […]

NBA labor negotiations head into what could be a critical day today after league owners budged off their insistence on a hard cap.   The offer by league negotiators came Tuesday in a brief, two-hour bargaining session that set the stage for what one source described as “an important day” on Wednesday. “It’s put up […]

This is from a Lithuanian site called Delfi Sportas.  The below text is the Google-translate version of what appeared on the site: 46-year-old Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis on Tuesday evening, about 19-20 hours., Playing basketball and had a heart attack – a former athlete, straight from the sports hall was taken to Emergency Hospital, […]

Ever since Mikhail Prokhorov took over the New Jersey Nets, the team has been firing shots across the bow of the New York Knicks.  Last summer, the team put up a huge billboard in the shadows of Madison Square Garden with photos of Prokhorov and Jay-Z and the tag line “the blueprint for greatness.”  It […]

NBA labor negotiations resume tomorrow.  They’ve been at this, in ernest, for a few weeks now and they really haven’t gotten all that far.  It’s too bad, according to super-agent David Falk, that super-agent David Falk isn’t involved.  Because if he was, this thing would be over. What would you do if you could get […]

The Blake Griffiin comedy extravaganza rolls on at Funny or Die.  This time, its Blake behind the scenes of a new commercial when he’s introduced to his marionette doppelganger, “Lil’ Blake”.  And Lil’ Blake is a bastard who frames Blake for murder.  Via TBJ

New Jersey Nets part-owner Shawn Carter, who I’m told may be better recognized by his rap name “Jay-Z”, went on TV this morning to make an announcement about the Nets move to Brooklyn.   “We’ve decided that the final name would be the Brooklyn Nets,” said the rapper who grew up only minutes away from […]

Marcus Camby was busted for pot possession in Houston. That in itself is no big deal.  It’s a misdemeanor that technically can lead to a year in jail but really will probably end up being just a fine.  No, the bigger issue is how Mr. Camby got busted in the first place. Police officials say […]