NBA fans are in the midst of the offseason and a lockout which means seeing their favorite professional teams and players on the hardwood is scarce right now. While small, pro-am type games do pop up from time to time which feature some NBA players, fans are clamoring for more. The much-hyped Goodman-Drew league next […]

The Orlando Magic are doing what a lot of teams and players do over the summer:  they hold basketball camps for kids.  I used to go the Providence College basketball camps as a kid, and I’m sure a lot of you have gone to something similar with a college or pro team or athlete in […]

After the Dallas Mavericks won their first championship with third-leading scorer Caron Butler left chewing straws in street clothes on the sidelines, many felt Butler was expendable. With Shawn Marion locked up for the next three years earning over $8 million per year, it looked like Butler was the odd-man out as he entered free […]

With the NBA offseason essentially in a holding pattern with the lockout in full swing, one would think NBA players are out enjoying their summer, basking in their millions, and enjoying what could be a prolonged time away from actual work. In other words, there’s a high risk of players letting rust in their game […]

While several players are bolting for Europe to assure they will be playing competitive basketball during the NBA lockout, some players have talked about switching sports altogether. Recently Nate Robinson talked about playing in the NFL, which is no longer in a lockout. Could Kevin Love be next to switch sports… to beach volleyball, perhaps. […]

Stop the presses, drop the anchor, alert Captain Obvious, and brace yourself for this “bombshell” from Minnesota Timberwolves’ Ricky Rubio. He says (via PBT) he needs to put on some size to make it in the NBA. “I think it will be physically harder than Europe – I will need to do more weights,” he […]

In one of the more laughable reports to have come out of the drudgery that is the NBA offseason, the Nielson Sports organization has come out with a thoroughly useless and seemingly arbitrary ranking of the NBA’s Most Marketable Players. Not only did they rank Dallas Mavericks forward and 2011 NBA Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki at the very […]

The lockout marches on, and you want to keep up with the details.  So every day we’re compiling the lockout related news here so you can stay informed. First bargaining session of the lockout set for early August27 days in and they’re still a couple weeks away from talking.  Oh please, don’t rush on our […]

The owners and players will not meet until early August (at the earliest) for formal negotiations. The lockout is very much at a standstill right now as the two sides plan their strategy for the next confrontation. Owners have seen two sizeable paychecks head the players’ way as the league did not give the players 57% […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are still hunting for a new head coach after Kurt Rambis was relieved of his duties. Recently, wandering NBA coach Larry Brown interviewed for the job, which makes him an interesting candidate. Minnesota is quite a young team. Derrick Williams, Ricky Rubio, and Wes Johnson are just a few of the young […]

J. David Salinas was a Houston area businessman and the founding operator of the Houston Select AAU program before he committed suicide earlier this month amid an investigation into his businesses by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  He was sixty years-old when he died, and the story can stop right there and be tragically depressing enough.  Only it keeps […]

For the first time in the life of the collective bargaining agreement born out of the 1998-99 lockout, the New York Knicks avoided the luxury tax.  Marc Berman of the New York Post reports that the Knicks finished $3 million shy of the dollar-for-dollar luxury tax penalty. What do the Knicks get for this? Well, […]

While the Drew and Goodman leagues in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. have been grabbing major headlines lately due to both teams boasting rosters with major NBA talent, Seattle, of all cities, proved this weekend that they have just as much talent. On Saturday, several NBA players flocked to Seattle, a city still reeling after […]