Whenever the lockout ends we can finally start worrying about things that are really important. No more talk of basketball-related income or salary caps. Let’s get back to important things: jerseys. What new jerseys will NBA teams roll out onto the floor. What designs can we lampoon and deride? What will we be wearing as […]

Everyone is in a holding pattern with the lockout right now. As European teams open up their training camps and the lockout seems closing in on claiming regular season games, the trickle of starts signing up for basketball overseas has not become the deluge that we might have expected at the beginning of the summer. […]

This weekend Kobe Bryant will know whether he needs to report to camp in Los Angeles or Italy. Either way, Bryant will be someplace he considers home. And either way, Bryant will be doing what he loves — playing basketball. The Associated Press reports Virtus Bologna has reached an agreement with Bryant to play in Italy […]

It has been fun this lockout discussing the issues that got us into this mess. Like those general managers blindly spending money on such star-studded players as Eddy Curry, Joe Johnson or Raef LaFrentz. These runaway guaranteed deals are one of the reasons that has us stuck where we are now — on the verge […]

It is like Christmas in September. It is almost here! NBA2K12 is coming the first week of October to soothe all our ills and maybe even tide us over during the lockout. Get used to the default rosters, kids, because nobody knows when that next update is coming. The anticipation for the latest version of […]

The dance begins again Tuesday as small groups of players and owners begin meeting in the latest (maybe last) attempt to save the entire regular season. Negotiating will take place Tuesday and Wednesday before the sides break for the holiday on Wednesday night/Thursday (insert your favorite Jewish lawyer joke here). Deadlines are getting very real […]

Friday saw the league cancel its first batch of games as the lockout drags on. The first two weeks of training camp and preseason games have officially been shelved and, unless an agreement can be come to soon, the regular season is in very real jeopardy. It is widely assumed that the owners strategy has […]

The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls are widely regarded as the best team in NBA history. Tough to argue after they went 72-10 behind an angry Michael Jordan and romped through the postseason. It was the first of Jordan’s second three-peat and nobody in the NBA seemed to even be in the same class as Chicago for […]

Things were not looking good coming out of Thursday’s meeting. We have our first cancellations, as the NBA announced that the first two weeks of training camp and the preseason are postponed. The regular season is not too far behind that as many speculate the league has until the end of the month to solve […]

Thursday is a big day for the NBA’s lockout. If progress is made when the two sides meet in New York, there is a good chance the majority of the season can be saved. If there is no progress, training camps and preseason games start getting canceled. And then we really hit crunch time to […]

This weekend the college football — and really basketball — world was set on fire when Syracuse and Pitt announced that they would move from the Big East to the ACC. The ACC confirmed the move Sunday and the conference expansion train is firmly rolling downhill in the world of college sports. NBA stars are […]

All the vacancies are just about filled and the chess pieces seem in place. This is the time of year when coaches and general managers are fine-tuning plans for the season. This lockout has slowed things down to a crawl. Never would a team go this long without filling important positions like, say, head coach […]

At long last it is over. The NBA can get back to work. Well, at least the NBA referees. Now the league just have to give them games to officiate. The NBA and its referees agreed to a five-year deal that will make sure the referees will be on the court officiating whenever the league […]