0 comments by John Karalis on 10/4/2011
That’s Luol Deng’s face (the one just above 70’s David Bowie) on newly issued money in London. Luol Deng may not have an NBA championship ring or an MVP award – but he does have his face printed on actual currency. The Chicago Bullsforward joins three others – activist Lenford Kwesi Garrison, WWII secret agent Violette Szabo, and David Bowie– […]
0 comments by Brendan Bowers
Blake Griffin is hilarious, but we already knew that. What you might not have known though, is that NBA training camps were supposed to open yesterday. Right I know, that’s not funny. Blake’s tweet on that subject was, however, and I appreciate the dunk machine adding some comedy amidst this basketball-less wasteland of NBA labor […]
0 comments by Jeff Garcia
NBA 2k12 is finally on the shelves and many of you reading this are stuck in an office just chomping at the bit to crack open your copy of the much anticipated NBA game this year. However, if you are like me, someone who didn’t reserve a copy, you might be waiting a bit longer […]
0 comments by Surya Fernandez
OKC Thunder superstar Kevin Durant celebrated 23 years of life at Dream Nightclub in Miami Beach this past weekend with a few friends and family. OK, maybe a little more than a few people showed up. And they wanted cake. Durant was wise to go with local bakery Divine Delicacies for the goods, just like […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/3/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Jeff Garcia
You remember the reasons Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace? If you don’t, let me give you the reasons from Peace himself. Metta is a Buddhist term that means loving kindness and friendliness toward others. “Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world,” World Peace said in […]
0 comments by Brendan Bowers
Not quite two years ago, Josh Selby was considered this past NCAA season’s top-rated incoming freshman according to many recruiting outlets coming out of high school in Baltimore, MD. He ended up being suspended as a result of allegedly receiving improper benefits to begin his Kansas career, and he never really got into the […]
0 comments by John Karalis
[WARNING – EASY JOKE ALERT] If anyone knows anything about Michael Beasley being high, its Michael Beasley. [Warning over. Please stand down] IAmAGM asked Michael Beasley about his NBA 2K12 rating, and he (surprisingly) said (via PBT): IamaGM.com: 2K12 ratings leaked early, you got a 78 how do you feel about that? MB: That’s […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
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. […]
0 comments by Jeff Garcia
If you are like me, then you are getting a bit sick of seeing nothing but lockout news. Owners want this, players want that, a million here, a million there… at this point NBA fans just rather know if there will or will not be an upcoming NBA season. But fret not my Crossover readers. […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 10/2/2011
After two seven-hour days of negotiating, both sides are taking a much needed day off, because that’s what we all do after two days of work. Berger reports that NBPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler said that the two sides did not discuss the most contentious issue, the division of Basketball-Related Income, and instead talked about system […]
0 comments by Brendan Bowers on 10/1/2011
I kinda like these local “teams” that NBA guys have been putting together over the last couple months to bide their time through the lockout. I say “kinda” because I like it when they actually put teams together with players who really are from that city, like Hakim Warrick did in Philly, as opposed to […]
0 comments by Jeff Garcia on 9/30/2011
This one is for all you New York Knicks fans. You guys have a head coach who is on the hot seat, a front office that seems to not rid themselves of Isiah Thomas, lost out on LeBron James, and saw your team get hit hard with injuries to key players (Chauncey Billups and Amar’e […]
0 comments by Brendan Bowers
Even though Zydrunas Ilgaukas took one last hope at winning an NBA Championship to Miami with him last season, his body never allowed him to contribute to that cause. He battled foot injuries throughout most of last year, and saw his role on the Heat evaporate into nothing as the season went on. It was […]
0 comments by John Karalis
The parade of NBA players making appearances on NBC continued last night when Roy Hibbert showed up on Parks & Recreation (along with Detlef Schrempf, who’s been on the show before). Here is a compilation of Roy’s moments (via TBJ). One moment that is sort of lost in this video is the set up […]
