John referenced this past Tuesday that Impact Basketball is launching their own league starting in September, and that news has since been met with a number of players around the NBA world calling shotgun on a roster spot.  Nothing is official yet, but rosters will reportedly be announced on September 6th, with league games slated to start on September […]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported yesterday that, “in spite of reports to the contrary all over the Internet recently, the Cavaliers have not yet officially discussed retiring former center Zydrunas Ilgauskas’ No. 11.”  But in the next line, the report said that it is certain this will happen at some point in the future, and when […]

NBA 2K12 has a feature called “NBA Greatest Mode” included in their game this year, which we detailed here previously, and maybe you noticed that Charles Barkley isn’t a part of the fifteen member group of legendary players.  You might not have noticed though, because nobody is saying that the “Chuckster” is one of the greatest fifteen players of all-time, […]

Usher Raymond owns a piece of the Cleveland Cavaliers.  Or at least I think he does, or did, not totally sure the situation there really.  I’ve seen him sitting court-side for a couple games over the last handful of seasons, but I noticed that he wasn’t cc’d on that letter Dan Gilbert wrote to LeBron […]

As evidenced here, here, and by every other sound-byte he’s offered on the subject this summer, the “Chuckster” has been pretty consistent with his predictions about the 2011-12 NBA season; he doesn’t think it’s happening.  Hey recently joined XX Sports Radio in San Diego with Scott Kaplan and Vencie Glenn to answer that line of questioning again, and stayed […]

The NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets franchise from founding owner George Shinn and minority owner Gary Chouest this past December to bail those two out of some cash flow issues they were experiencing.  Last time I had some cash flow issues, I sold an old refrigerator I had in my garage on Craigslist.  As a result […]

Before DeShawn Stevenson got a little carried away in celebration of that NBA championship, he put together a pretty respectable season coming off the bench down in Dallas.  He appeared in 72 games for the Mavs, averaged a handful of points, seemed to do okay with the whole teamwork thing, and really excelled on the defensive end […]

Since James Dolan reportedly wouldn’t let Donnie Walsh bring Chris Mullin into the Knicks front office prior to Walsh leaving his post as team president, I think a game of NBA Jam style two-on-two is in order.   Dolan can dust off his old pair of Converse All Stars and team up with his boy Isiah, and those two guys can square off […]

Basketball Reference came up with a list for Henry Abbott over at TrueHoop yesterday identifying which individuals played the most real minutes (regular season and playoffs combined) in NBA history.  The top-50 list came out with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on top for logging a grand total of 66,297 minutes over the course of his career. Karl Malone was second on the list with […]

I’m a sucker for Hall of Fame Weekend.  I’ll most likely catch most of the ceremony tonight, and by the time NBATV is done replaying the broadcast one hundred times over the next month I’ll have eventually caught each and every word from each and every speech.  I’m looking forward to hearing Artis Gilmore, and Chris Mullin, and Tex Winter, and […]

Tomorrow the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame will induct the class of 2011.  Members of this year’s class include Chris Mullin, Dennis Rodman, Artis Gilmore, Tara VanDerveer, Teresa Edwards, Arvydas Sabonis, Herb Magee, Tom “Satch” Sanders, Tex Winter, and Reece “Goose” Tatum. So far we’ve profiled the careers of Tex Winter, Reece “Goose Tatum, Arvydas Sabonis, Dennis Rodman, and Artis Gilmore. Chris Mullin is below. There might not be all that […]

Ron-Ron didn’t have to change his name to Metta World Peace to prevent me from ever saying I hated him, because I never did.  I’ve always been pro-Ron Artest, and I always will be.  The fact that he changed his name to World Peace in an effort to champion such a cause only makes me like […]

On Friday, the Naismith Hall of Fame will induct the class of 2011.  Members of this year’s class include Chris Mullin, Dennis Rodman, Artis Gilmore, Tara VanDerveer, Teresa Edwards, Arvydas Sabonis, Herb Magee, Tom “Satch” Sanders, Tex Winter, and Reece “Goose” Tatum. To date we’ve profiled the careers of Tex Winter, Reece “Goose Tatum, Arvydas Sabonis, and Dennis Rodman.  Artis Gilmore is below. Artis Gilmore played his last NBA […]

It doesn’t take a doctor like Jack Ramsey to see how devasting LeBron James would be operating from the low block.  There’s nobody on earth who could guard him one-on-one down there, and if you tried to run two or three guys at him he’d find teammates running so open for lay-ups that even Eddie House and Mike Bibby would score.  It […]