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Can The Redeem Team Win The Gold With Kobe Playing Like Pete Myers?
Judging by jersey sales alone, the Chinese people love Kobe Bryant. But those enthusiastic fans can't be very impressed by what they've seen from him so far. His first two tournament games have been the Olympic basketball equivalent of going to see The Dark Knight but being forced to sit through Bat...
Which NBA Player Was Hitting On Kara Goucher?
The sinewy young lady in this picture is Kara Goucher, who will be representing the U.S. in both the 5,000m and 10,000m in Beijing. She's a pleasant, friendly woman, who's been "writing home" about her Olympic experience for the Duluth News Tribune. She had an amusing little anecdote in her entry on...
Lakers Agree to Terms With "Chinese Magic Johnson"
The Chinese Magic Johnson's name is Sun Yue and he's a 6'9 Chinese point guard who is also fond of colorful sweaters, creating his own words that don't exist while speaking, and smiling no matter how serious the occasion. The Lakers drafted Sun in the second round of the 2007 draft, and the Eastern ...
Kobe Bryant Says He'd Go to Italy For $50 Million
Not content to allow LeBron James to sweep up all the attention for his leaked interest in going overseas for $50 million, Kobe Bryant stepped into the fray yesterday from Beijing. Telling The Boston Globe that he'd go to Italy for $50 million a year. You know, sooner or later the NBA brass might ha...
Dirk Nowitzki Has Olympic Fever
Getting things shaved into the side or back of your head has become popular again. 1985 rules! First black basketball players brought it back and now it's crossed over to white basketball players. Albeit German ones. Nowitzki's new 'do is appropriate considering he'll be the flag-bearer for Germany...
New York Knicks Owner James Dolan Advertises His Band With Google Banners
And why wouldn't he? When you're a rocker like JD and the Straight Shot (get it, get it!) you can't be expected to pour all your efforts into a perpetually losing team steeped in sexual harassment. No way, man. You got to feel the vibe. Ride the proverbial dragon, strum those strings. You're a rocke...
So How Much Trouble Is Team USA In, Really?
Is Team USA doomed? Should an 87-76 win over Australia on Tuesday in the final tuneup before official Olympic competition be considered a good thing, or a harbinger of doom? Is this shaping up to be a debacle like 2004, when we could only manage a bronze? When Argentina asks you how their ass taste,...
LeBron Would Head To Europe for $50 Million a Year
$50 million just so happens to be about $30 million more than any NBA team can pay under the salary cap. That sound you just heard is the NBA brass trying to figure out if they need some sort of superstar carve out in the salary cap structure. Either that or getting a capless division set up in Euro...
Chinese Nicknames For NBA Players Are Confusing, Fun
From now on, Damon Stoudamire will be referred to on this site by his Chinese nickname: Little Flying Mouse. Likewise Steve Francis (Special Rights), Carmelo Anthony (Sweet Melon) and Manu Ginobili (Argentina's Flying Man). Finally, something fun from the Beijing Olympics. Guess whose nickname is Li...
Baron Davis, Steve Nash Spoof The Classics
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Ron Artest and Yao Ming Are Already Feuding
Yao expressed some concern about whether or not Artest would still be fighting and going into the stands. Which isn't that big of a surprise considering that the Chinese calendar says it's still 2004. But Ron Artest wasn't pleased by the comments. So he did what Ron Artest always does, gave the Hou...
Here's What Kwame Brown Can Do For The Pistons
Joe Dumars has done great things in Detroit. He drafted Tayshaun Prince and Rodney Stuckey. He traded for Ben Wallace, Richard Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace. And he signed Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess. Basically, he assembled the core for a perennial championship contender...and they've deliv...
Gilbert Arenas's $1 Million Pool Is Nicer Than Yours
And by yours I mean the condo complex you sneak into every weekend because the girls are better looking than the apartment where you live. Meanwhile Agent Zero is constructing his own Xanadu replete with mountain and three acquariums. D.C. Sports Bog brings us the further details on the pool. Along...
Tim Donaghy Gets 15 Months in Jail
Which was roughly in the middle of the 33 month sentence he could have received from Judge Carol Bagley Amon. Even still Donaghy's time in prison is longer than most legal experts anticipated he would receive given his cooperation with federal authorities. Generally courts are more lenient in situa...
LeBron Raymone James Donates $20k to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign
Actually to a committee dedicated to electing Obama since personal contributions are capped at $2,300 per election. Early in his career as pitchman for the Gods, Michael Jordan remarked, "Republicans buy sneakers too," when Harvey Gantt's senate campaign requested he donate money. Gantt was then em...
NBA Player Carousel: Where Are They Now?
It's been a rather busy summer in the NBA: Extensions, trades, free agent signings, a few defections, and one notable overseas departure. And although guys like Kwame Brown and Randolph Morris are still looking in vain (and abject terror) for a new home, here's a semi-exhaustive list of the major, ...
Matt Geiger Having Trouble Selling His $20 Million Dollar Mansion
Matt F'in Geiger has a twenty million dollar house? The company that agreed to buy his mansion for $21 million is not following through and now Geiger is suing. If you ever had any doubt that the NBA salary structures are completely out of whack, Matt Geiger is exhibit A. In his ten year NBA career...
Sasha "The Machine" Vujacic Latest NBA'er to Embrace Europe?
Say it ain't so. He's going to take his Laker girl headband and cross back over the Atlantic if the Lakers don't increase their current $2.6 million dollar offer. In a bit of strained reasoning Vujacic's reps are arguing that no other NBA team is making Sasha an offer because they know the Lakers wi...
Value of Euro vs. Dollar Impacting NBA Signings?
In the latest sign of American hoops hegemony showing some weakness, fivetooltool points out that several NBA players are returning to Europe because they can get better contracts there. Why? Partially because of the increasing value of the euro relative to the dollar....
Soon Jerry Buss' Invincible Laker Girl Army Shall Be Complete. Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha!
The Los Angeles Times may not have a handle on every story, but by God they had a reporter up at 8 a.m. on Saturday to cover Laker Girls auditions. By his own admission, Adam Rose took "about 350" photos, plus some video, the latter which he hasn't posted yet. Hopefully he was invited and not just h...