0 comments by John Karalis on 7/5/2011
Google “DeMarcus Cousins” and you’ll find the word “combustible” sprinkled throughout the search results. He is not shy about letting it fly out there on the court. The Sacramento Kings forward was fifth in the NBA in technical fouls last season with 14, just four behind Dwight Howard’s league-leading 18 (though at least one of them […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 7/1/2011
The superstar members of the Miami Heat are not going to let a lockout get in the way of their summer time tradition of embarrassing young children in drills. Last summer at the Nike World Basketball Festival in New York, it was Dwyane Wade who repeatedly blocked and taunted children(with some help from Chris Paul). […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/30/2011
The NBA lockout is officially here. Billionaire owners are crying poverty, claiming they can’t make ends meet because player salaries are flying out of control, and thus taking away the game we love so dearly. Never mind that many of the owners claims can be dismissed with a simple “well, you wouldn’t be in this […]
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and Sacramento Kings snuck-in one last order of business before the NBA goes into lockout-mode in 10 hours. The Cavs sent promising young big man JJ Hickson to the Sacramento Kings for swing-man Omri Casspi and a heavily protected first round pick. You could call this a bit of a breakout season […]
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As the clock ticks towards midnight and we wait for the padlocks to clamp shut, there is, perhaps, a sign of weakness within the player ranks. According to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Shane Battier challenged Billy Hunter during a recent players association meeting by asking him if he’d do what NFL union head DeMaurice Smith did, and […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/29/2011
In the aftermath of “The Decision,” Miami Heat’s LeBron James’ image took a bit of a hit. To put it bluntly, people were pretty pissed off about how he handled himself this summer. Add to it his recent, mind-boggling disappearance in the NBA Finals, and it was looking like a marketing disaster for Team LeBron. I […]
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For some unforsaken reason, kids these days are lying flat on things, taking pictures of them, and posting them on the Internet. Lord knows why “planking” has gotten popular, but it has. Now that that’s out of the way. Here’s Gilbert Arenas and Dwight Howard doing it all over Orlando (Via Dwight’s Moby Picture […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/23/2011
The Charlotte Bobcats are not very good, and probably won’t be for a while. And when you consider that losing Joel Przybilla and Kwame Brown hurts them, it’s a safe bet to say they need size. Tyrus Thomas isn’t going to man the paint by himself. The question then becomes, where do you get the […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/22/2011
I feel bad for this new generation of NBA fans. So many of them didn’t get a chance to see Hakeem Olajuwan play in his hey day. The man was as smooth as it got on the block. His footwork was sublime. His creativity was mind blowing. His touch was breathtakingly soft. Just go watch […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/21/2011
Note: As part of our draft week coverage, the entire staff at Crossover Chronicles have decided to play the role of General Manager. We’ll be presenting our lottery picks from today through Thursday. As we reported yesterday, the Cleveland Cavaliers have reportedly condirmed that they will draft Duke’s Kyrie Erving with the first pick in the […]
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Round and round the coaching carousel goes, and where it stops, nobody knows. Actually, somebody knows. A few people. Like ESPN’s Marc Stein and the Dallas Morning News’ Eddie Sefko, who both report Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Dwane Casey will be named head coach of the Toronto Raptors as early as today. You might remember […]
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A month ago, we got the first whiff of the impending divorce between the Atlanta Hawks and Josh Smith. Now we’re hearing that not only is Smith open to a trade, he’s got a wish list of where he’d like to go. The Atlanta Hawks have started to gauge trade interest on forward Josh Smith, and Smith isn’t […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/20/2011
Like a thirsty man crawling through the desert begging for water, we NBA fans are desperate for more basketball (and the NBA Finals only just ended. I shudder to think what a lockout will bring). Well, look no further, intrepid hoops fanatics. For Oklahoma Cith Thunder’s Kevin Durant’s off-the-backboard alley oop to himself in LA’s […]
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Dwight Howard is a dominant center. He’s the most feared big man the NBA has seen since Shaq was a Laker. But his idea of what makes a great roster might be skewed. Not even a week after giving the Orlando Magic a one-season ultimatum for improving his supporting cast, Dwight says Gilbert Arenas was just […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/16/2011
Twitter and NBA players go together like milk and cookies. It’s so delicious and fun to have every once in a while. But in all honesty, too much of it can make you feel a little sick. I mean, how many different “heading out to Cheescake Factory” tweets can you stomach? But its all in […]
