Jeff Green's game-winning shot in Cleveland with his heart surgeon in attendance was one of the most emotional and memorable moments of the 2012-13 season. It was an extremely personal and gratifying statement from someone who more than a year ago underwent open heart surgery and did not know if he could play again. He […]

NBA season is about a month away. Well, the preseason is anyway. In 30 short days, we will have NBA basketball to fill our minds and these pages with highlights and storylines and ridiculousness. OK, maybe the ridiculousness is always in the NBA. Pretty soon, we will all drop down our $150-plus for NBA League […]

About this time last year, NBA fans and, probably, NBA officials were trying to make heads or tails about the league's new flopping rules and how exactly the league would go about enforcing this new standard and rule. What was a flop? How would officials determine what a flop was? How would the league office […]

Jay-Z is getting set to become a sports agent which means he has to sell his miniscule share in the Brooklyn Nets. Agents cannot be owners because of the whole conflict of interest thing in the collective bargaining agreement. Jay-Z was more of a face and publicity figure than an owner anyway. That 0.067 percent […]

Who is the newest member of the Ohio State Buckeyes? Coach Thad Motta is pretty well known for being able to bring in the very best recruits to Columbus and building a national championship program. But this move might be bending the rules a little bit. That is, if this player was actually playing. No, […]

There is a long list of NBA players who failed to live up to their potential whether it was because of injuries or attitude or whatever. Michael Beasley is only the latest in a long line of wasted talent. Michael Beasley's up-and-down, mostly down, career in the NBA took a sharp turn south and it […]

And now something from the JaVale McGee files… McGee posted an epic contest of skill on his Instagram pitting the Nuggets center against a local kid at what appears to be a Laser Tag venue — thankfully not a Chuck E. Cheese's — and he had to prove his shooting ability: {youtube}zsCsZIR5dLs{/youtube} 53-36 was the […]

Paul Pierce raised the stakes in the Battle for New York between the Knicks and Nets when he publicly expressed his hatred for the Knicks and claimed the Nets were going to take the city from the Madison Square Garden dwellers. This came a year after Brooklyn declared its independence from the Manhattan basketball empire. […]

It was not long ago that Lamar Odom was a key part of a championship team. It was three years ago, in fact. Odom averaged only 10.8 points per game that year but was a big part of the puzzle for the Lakers. In 2011, Odom averaged 14.4 points per game and shot 53.0 percent […]

The Timberwolves have gone through quite the transformation in the front office in the last few years. Flip Saunders has taken over and cleared house and made Minnesota a team that coudl legitimately challenge for the Playoffs this year. With a new general manager in tow, the Wolves are trying to start making step forwards. […]

Kobe Bryant seems to be moving forward with his rehab from a ruptured Achilles tendon at an alarming speed. Like super alarming. Bryant was supposed to be on the shelf for six months, at minimum, and it did not seem like he would be the same Kobe Bryant. The man is 34 years old, after […]