Team USA has expected dominance, measuring itself against perfection, the last 20 years. The addition of NBA players to the U.S. Olympic basketball program raised the bar for what basketball fans around the world can expect. For the U.S. it raised the bar to an almost impossible to achieve level of perfection. The 1992 Dream […]

Serge Ibaka didn't play nearly as much as anyone expected he would in the Olympics. The Spanish team who eventually finished seven points shy of a Gold Medal did play Ibaka for 22 minutes in the final game against the US, but he probably should've played even more than that. To speculate, the issue most […]

Now that the Olympics are over and we can stop debating who would win between the 2012 American team and the 1992 Dream Team, we can return to another argument that will never be solved: LeBron vs. MJ. After LeBron James won his first NBA Championship last season and the Miami Heat look like they […]

Anthony Davis had a very very informative summer. Thanks to a wide variety of injuries to Team USA's centers, the national team was forced to turn to the top overall pick in the 2012 Draft for valuable bench minutes and potential front court depth. Davis was given an incredible opportunity to learn from some of […]

Michael Redd averaged 15.1 minutes per night in 51 of the 66 games played last season for the Phoenix Suns. His career long battle with injuries is well-chronicled, but he certainly appeared healthy enough to contribute last year. He told me last month when I caught up with him in Columbus, OH that he "feels […]

A report out today claims the Sacramento Kings are poised to announce a new plan to relocate in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Yeah. Virginia Beach. The owners of the Sacramento Kings, an NBA franchise, and officials from Philadelphia-based Comcast-Spectacor are expected to be in Virginia Beach Tuesday to propose moving the team to the resort city […]

The expectations for the Lakers this season are already through the roof. Multiply that by the fact that they play in L.A., a city that won’t be satisfied with anything but a championship, and you have a lot of pressure put on the players and the coach. Lakers head coach Mike Brown knows that he’s […]

Few love him, many hate him and some tolerate him but make no mistake about it, ESPN's Skip Bayless and his show "First Take" is watched by many mainly to see and hear what outlandish thing he and his co-host, Stephen A. Smith aka "Screaming" A. Smith, have to say on the world of sports […]

Yesterday, we took a good, hard look at what the Eastern Conference will look like since we have nothing to do at this point in the summer. August just really sucks for basketball news — unless you are watching the WNBA, like me and other basketball junkies (Go Lynx!).  ESPN feels the same way and […]

Let me tell you a little story about me. It was my junior year and I was co-captain of the Emerson College men's basketball team (the same team, incidentally, that produced Sam Presti and Rob Hennigan. Our career paths kinda went in different directions, huh?  Anyway… ). The team, historically, had sucked. I mean, REALLY, […]

Remember Andrew Bogut? Tall, Australian, plays basketball. It is OK if you don't remember him.  It has been a tough few years for Bogey. First he had that horrific elbow injury that we have all seen one too many times. Then that same injury took so long to heal that it messed up his offensive […]

There's a big part of me that wants to say this could never happen. Truth is, Derrick Rose could be the next superstar to bolt for greener pastures when his contract does expires with the Chicago Bulls. As much as we might not want to think that's possible. Stan Van Gundy, a man who speaks […]