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Roundtable: Is Yao Ming a Hall of Famer?

Injuries forced Yao Ming to retire from the NBA this week, ending a eight-year career with the Houston Rockets.  Eight years is an interesting number, because it’s a longer NBA career than the average player gets, but it’s short enough to leave a lot of “legacy” questions in doubt.  Perhaps the biggest legacy question (aside […]

Lawrence Frank Will Reportedly Replace Kuester In Detroit

I hope this means that Lawrence Frank will pick up where Eminem and Ndamukong Suh left off in those Imported from Detroit Chrysler commercials.  I can personally say that I’d be a whole lot closer to purchasing one of those whips if I turned on the television one day and saw Frank rolling around Detroit’s playgrounds looking for the next Manny Harris in […]

Rodman Turns The Big 5-0 In Vegas, There Were No Survivors

They say age is nothing but a number and if so, then former NBA “Bad Boy” Dennis Rodman is living proof of it. “The Worm” recently celebrated his 50th birthday in only the place well-suited to take on his craziness, Las Vegas. And did he ever make the best of it. So why not just […]

All Star NBA Squad To Play In Manila This Weekend

While we in the United States debate the proper spelling of names, a crack commando unit sent to lockout by a the commissioner has escaped and will survive as soldiers of fortune.  Which is my goofball way of saying a bunch of really good NBA players are going to play a couple of games.  Specifically, […]

A Role For Allen Iverson On Every NBA Team

Allen Iverson wants back in the NBA.  He wants it badly.  VERY badly.  So badly that Mr. “I won’t come off the bench” has seriously changed his tune: “I just want to do whatever an organization wants me to do,” Iverson said. “Everybody made a big thing about me not wanting to come off the […]

Lawsuits Seem To Be Lockout Pasttime

So you are a multi-millionaire. And you are not allowed to go to work or prepare for your job because you do not know when your seasonal employment will begin. You cannot talk to your boss or even the guy that helps you with training and rehabilitation because, well, those are the rules. You try […]

Lockout All Star Game Announced For August

Every year, premier summer leagues tend to draw big names for a game or two as players drop in to get some run.  In LA, its The Drew League.  In DC, is the Goodman League.  DeMar DeRozan and Shannon Brown have rocked the Drew League’s rims already this year.  So has Kevin Durant.  But then […]

Shaq Disses Chris Bosh With “Big 2” Comment, But Is He Right?

Lost in the forced celebration and hullabaloo of the NBA’s FU schedule release was Shaquille O’Neal’s debut as an NBA analyst for Turner Sports.  The Big Confucius appeared on NBA TV’s coverage of the 2011-2012 NBA schedule release… that will only be fulfilled if we end that pesky lockout that nobody seems to want to […]

Brandon Jennings Displays Adequate Highlight-Producing Leaping Ability

Add Brandon Jennings to the list of NBA’ers showing up at random places and doing spectacular things.  Jennings was at the Melo Center in Syracuse a couple of nights ago when he whipped off an off-the-backboard alley-oop to himself, displaying an adequate ability to provide highlights of the slam-dunk variety.   But that’s not even […]

Andrew Bynum Follows Kramer’s Advice, Takes The Handicapped Spot

Yes, that’s the back-side of Andrew Bynum next to a very expensive BMW, which just happens to be parked in two handicapped spots.  LA’s NBC affiliate has the story, along with a few other photos and a shot of Bynum nearly slamming his door on a reporters arm. Now, let me blatantly rip off an […]

NBA Keeps A Straight Face, Releases Its Schedule

August is around the corner, the lockout is almost a month old, both sides are miles apart on a proposal, and there are no actual talks scheduled.  Seems like a perfect time to release a schedule, huh?  But like seagulls fighting over a dirty french fry on the beach, we’re all just dying to analyze […]

2010 Free Agent Recap: The Superstar Signings

We’ve now determined the Best and Worst free agent signings from “2010: The Summer of the Free Agent”.  Now we turn our attention to what all the hubbub a year ago was all about – the superstars.  Which players lived up to their superstar billing last year and which ones failed to deliver?  Only players […]

Howard Miffed Magic Didn’t Involve Him In December Trades

It was two of the bigger trades last season when the Washington Wizards and Phoenix Suns traded with the Orlando Magic. It dramatically changed Orlando’s squad mid-season but it wasn’t enough to get them back to the NBA Finals. It also didn’t sit well with All-Star center Dwight Howard as he said he was not […]

Ben Wallace Wants To Be A Lawyer

Once upon a time, Ben Wallace was feared as a tenacious defender and rebounder.  When he took the court, all you saw was hair and muscles, and quite possibly your shot flying into the fourth row.  But now, Ben Wallace hoping to be feared on another court (yeah, I had to make the pun, it’s […]

Would Contraction Help?

Nobody likes talking about. It is an elephant in the room, akin to kicking somebody out of the club. No owner likely will go for it and the players would not like to see the league lose 12-15 potential jobs. Yet, every time we reach a near labor impasse, it rears its ugly head. The […]

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