Everyone has their pet projects. When you get enough down time, you think about random problems that keeps your brain thinking during idle time. Because idle hands are the Devil’s play thing, right? Players have pro-am games and European offers to entertain themselves during the lockout. What are the owners doing (besides counting the millions […]

You can’t read a story about the NBA without some kind of preface or caveat concerning the lockout.  It’s either “if we have a season” or “whenever the season starts”.  But Chris Sheridan, who just left ESPN and started his own website, has authored the most positive lockout story we’ve read to date.  Here, I’ll just […]

How do you know you are in the middle of the NBA offseason and dealing with a lockout which seems to have no end in sight? I am about to show you Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose playing with puppets. Rose is in Japan promoting (via chicago.sbnation.com) the Adidas brand and took some time to interact […]

The FIBA tournaments happening around the world are a nice reprieve from the depressing lack of news on the lockout front.  One of those tournaments is the FIBA Americas competition that will decide a qualifier for the 2012 Olympics in London.  Even though the already qualified USA team didn’t participate, there are still some NBA […]

We’re getting to a point where the Goodman league team will just show up on random courts and take on all comers.  After taking on the Drew League, the Melo League in Baltimore wanted a piece.  Now, a team has been put together in Indianapolis, and will face off against the Goodman team on September […]

After pressing play on the video below, keep your eye on the white guy dressed in a blue t-shirt with black shorts in the back middle of the stage, that’s Steve Nash.  Now I’d like to crack on Stevie for being a bad dancer, but after further evaluation of the fact that nobody else is trying to dance […]

Eurobasket 2011 rages on and the games are getting intense as teams inch closer to the elimination rounds. Day four was filled with many great games including Finland and Macedonia getting huge wins, Croatia and Ante Tomic edging out Montenegro in Group C play.  Ukraine and head coach Mike Fratello picked up the win against […]

When you consider the fact that Jonas Valanciunas is young, fresh, as well as fly, and then combine that with the reality that he has both stacks and gold medals, it was really only a matter of time before rap songs started dropping in his honor.  In this case, the Lithuanian Rapper by the catchy street handle of O’Grime took that initiative earlier this […]

The best athletes in the world these days play NBA Basketball.  This isn’t to say that Brian Scalabrine is a better athlete than Mike Vick, obviously, but I think for the most part it’s collectively agreed upon that this statement is generally accurate. Amongst this group of athletic elite, there aren’t too many people more athletic than Russell Westbrook.  LeBron would probably […]

I was a little skeptical when Kevin Durant announced he was doing an internet show that followed him around to give fans an inside took at his life.  I was, and still sort of am, concerned that opening up to the fans would also open Durant up to some unfair scrutiny that would leave a […]

  That video comes to us from Ball Don’t Lie, and it shows a huge group of crazed basketball fans welcoming Corey Maggette to Greece. Yeah, THAT Corey Maggette.   He just joined PAOK in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city… and he was MOBBED upon arrival.  They must not know who he is.  Either that […]