The first two weeks of the regular season have been cancelled and, considering the disgusting way talks ended Thursday night, more cancellations are probably coming.  But that may not necessarily mean we’re looking at a shortened season.   Two sources close to the negotiations said the union believes that Stern assured his ESPN and TNT […]

The continuing lockout obviously means a lot of out of work basketball players, but remember there were some smart enough to take their talents overseas. New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams is playing in Turkey right now and seems to be doing quite well. He’s keeping a diary for ESPNNewYork, which reads a little bit […]

If there is one person who could actually make a Kia Optima seem cool it’s this guy.  After Baron Davis fed him an oop out the sun roof while he leapt over an Optima during the dunk contest in his first commercial, this Blake Griffin as the Kia pitchman take two. This time Blake is […]

With a range of dollar figures being tossed about during the CBA negotiations, it just seems like neither side will be satisfied. Players want their fair share of the pie (BRI) and the owners are dead-set on making a $300 million profit. Now a federal mediator has intervened yet nothing has been settled. So how […]

NBA Labor Talks have broken up after George Cohen locked everybody in a room for approximately three straight days, but it appears both sides are no further along than they were before the mediator extraordinaire stepped in to save the universe from a basketball work stoppage.   Below is what Woj had to report through […]

Remember when the New Orleans Hornets stretched their playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers to six games behind some incredible play from Chris Paul? Now, imagine the Hornets could add a borderline All-Star averaging 18.9 points per game, 7.6 rebounds per game and shot a 55.8 percent true shooting percentage. That might have been […]

Aside from making out with his girlfriend on live T.V., Washington Wizards’ Jan Vesely is apparently quite the baller that made him the sixth overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. From his ability to get to the rim and finish strong to his surprising athletic ability for a guy who stands 6’11”, Vesely seems […]

Rookies have some very traditional jobs. They sing their fight song at training camp, wish the veterans a happy birthday in front of the team, carry the bags and wear ridiculous backpacks. They also have the time-honored tradition of bringing donuts to practice for the veterans. Yes, the delivery of the morning Krispy Kremes at […]

I suppose Virtus Roma should have taken a page out of Virtus Bologna’s penning a letter to Barack Obama book and fired off at least an email to Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu to help garner support for their efforts to sign Toronto Raptors big man Andrea Bargnani.  Actually I don’t really know if that […]

Los Angeles Lakers’ Pau Gasol already has the reputation for being one of the softer big men in the NBA. He’s not really doing much to change that image. In a recent interview, Pau said he much prefers the European style of basketball to the NBA. “…. basketball is a team sport and more beautiful […]

We’ve seen these guys play each other in no-defense, high-flying pro-am exhibitions that included a lot of middle-of-the road players.  But during what would have been the first couple of weeks of the NBA season, a legitimate NBA All-Star team could be globe-trotting in a six-game exhibition tour. In a trip that could resemble Team […]

The last time the United States won Olympic Gold with College Basketball Players representing the mighty US of A was in 1984.  The games were in L.A., Bob Knight was the coach, and the team went 8-0 led by North Carolina product Mike Jordan, Georgetown big man Pat Ewing, and Chris Mullin from St. John’s. […]

Pamela McGee was an All-American at USC who won back-to-back NCAA titles, an Olympic gold medal in the 1984 L.A. Games, was the second overall pick of the 1997 WNBA draft at the age of 34, and is the mother of Washington Wizards big man JaVale McGee.   If JaVale McGee’s mother was anybody else, […]