The defending World Champion Dallas Mavericks visited the White House yesterday, and Dirk Nowitzki was most definitely invited. The Mavs handed President Obama, the former Hawaiian prep basketball player, a number twenty-three Mavericks Jersey too as a show of gratitude. In response, Obama made a joke about Micheal Jordan that wasn’t really funny. Before that […]

Dwyane Wade has missed three games so far with what’s been called a sore foot.  As of right now, that’s all its being called.  But it could be something worse than that. “It’s mostly a bruise. And down there, when you get kicked a lot of times, it can feel like plantar fasciitis. But he’s […]

Jeff Green’s surgery to correct an aortic aneurysm was deemed a success today, according to Celtics coach Doc Rivers.  “Surgery went well, he had surgery today — they’re saying it went great,” said Rivers. “Obviously, our thoughts, our prayers, and every part of being is with Jeff right now.  “The second news we want to […]

The Miami Heat are 8-1.  They’ve got the fifth best offense and the second best defense in the league. Their average margin of victory is second in the league.    The Miami Heat are a scary good team, and the fact that they are holding their first full practice today makes them even scarier Under […]

One thing I always thought about the Russell Westbrook shooting too much in critical games situations is that the Thunder did have an Eric Maynor option suited up behind him on the OKC bench if things just got way out of control. Certainly Maynor is nowhere near the athlete or player that Westbrook is, but […]

Twitter can be a great place to get information, be entertained and entertain other people.  It’s also been a gateway for athletes to communicate directly to fans, but on their own terms… selectively picking and choosing which fans to reply to or re-tweet without having the public stigma of appearing to overlook anyone (as they […]

Mike D’Antoni can rest easy, because Flip Saunders has officially taken over sole ownership of NBA coaches on the hot seat after the Sacramento Kings relieved Paul Westphal of his duties late last week. And now Saunders has his players to thank for turning the heat up. Over the last two weeks D’Antoni, Saunders, and […]

Poor, poor Ersan Ilyasova And then that Lob City thing happened Oh, and the Clippers won the game.  That’s their third straight win to go 4-2 and take a half game lead over the Lakers on top of the Pacific Division.  Griffin had 22 points and 14 rebounds. Full NBA Scoreboard

Carl Landry sure likes to posterize Chris Andersen with wrap-arond dunks, doesn’t he?  Here he is last night: … and that looks a lot like the dunk he had almost exactly a year ago Happy Anniversary, Birdman.  I look forward to re-living this moment in January of 2013. Seriously, though… that’s the EXACT same play. […]

The NBA season is off and running. While we are less than 10 games into the season, you would be hard pressed to tell if teams do not already have an eye toward the stacked 2012 Draft class. Or maybe it is the frenetic pace of the schedule and the truncated training camp that has […]

NBA fans both support and fear Seattle’s movement to replace the Supersonics. Nobody (outside of Oklahoma City… and even they have their misgivings I would think) liked the way the Sonics departed Seattle. And every fan fears the realization that their team could move in an instant like Seattle’s did. Yet, there is a twing […]