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After Five Days In Captivity, A Haggard Chris Kaman Emerges To Assure His Family That He Is Unharmed And The Hornets Are Treating Him Well
None of the Lob City exiles look particularly happy about their new workplace....

Dennis Rodman Gets More Colorful With Age
Dennis Rodman and a few other bloated NBA retirees played a basketball game in Macau yesterday—tagline: Relive the glory days of basketball—but only Rodman played in full, Cirque du Soleil-style face paint. Consider this your bimonthly reminder that Dennis Rodman is still bleeping insane, and that e...

Pre-Kardashian Kris Humphries Went On A Date With One Of Jon Huntsman's Daughters
Things are looking up for Kris Humphries, the NBA free agent who spent 72 days married to Kim Kardashian. Last we checked in with him, he had to deal with a "KRIS IS GAY!" tabloid cover, and he had survived what was—unofficially—the worst year ever....

Marion Barber Still Refuses To Talk About That Broncos Game
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Let's play "how many different ways can Barber say 'I'm thinking about next week?'"...

Former Security Director Sues NBA, Claims League Fired Him After Blowing The Whistle On Sexual Harassment
In June, NBA security official Warren Glover received a gold watch and a letter from David Stern celebrating his 10 years with the league. A month later, he was fired, the highest-level NBA employee to be let go during the lockout. Glover says it was retribution for speaking up against repeated inst...

Gifts For Gamers
Shopping for video game aficionados should be easy. There's seemingly an endless supply of games, systems, and gadgets to suit their every need. The thing is, though, gamers have are used to checking out the reviews for every perspective purchase on the market. They know the field so well that they'...

David Stern Did The Right Thing With Chris Paul
That's a painful headline to write, and especially inconceivable after the histrionics that followed the NBA's veto of a deal that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers last week. It was a power trip, a violation of Dell Demps's autonomy, and maybe even an anti-trust violation: and as it turns ou...

Blake Griffin And Co.'s Reactions To The Chris Paul Trade Were Caught On Tape: "Lob City!"
The Clippers successfully traded for Chris Paul yesterday, which was a bit of a shock for basketball fans, because it means that Los Angeles's other NBA team might actually be somewhat relevant this season or next....

Chris Paul Headed To The Clippers, For Real This Time
Marc Stein is first to the post with news that the Clippers caved and will include Eric Gordon in a deal for Chris Paul, as long as Neil Olshey says "no takesies backsies" before David Stern can veto. The haul is pretty good for New Orleans: Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, and Minnesota's firs...

Molesty Sixers Mascot Needs Somebody Inside Him
We're just going to assume that B. Franklin Dogg is going to win the fan vote to become the next 76ers mascot, because his bedroom eyes and S&M collar make us laugh every time. He's McGruff, the Sex Crime Dog. "Hey kids! B. Franklin Dogg's van is full of candy!"...

Metta World Peace Is Just As Insane As Ron Artest
Ron Artest's jersey now says "World Peace" on the back, and presumably he's become an entirely different person since the name change became official. But there's one Artest quality we can still count on: Metta World Peace is still totally insane....

Not Fadeaway: Farewell To Brandon Roy's Perfect Step-Back
Brandon Roy retired from professional basketball last week, at the age of 27 and after just five seasons in the NBA. He has, he told the Portland Trail Blazers, "degenerative knees."...

Where Mid-'90s Basketball Goes To Die
Look at that poster. Just look at it! Those were the players you'd play against in NBA Jam, but never choose for your own team....

Mo Williams Wants Some Pictures And Contact Info For Some New Twitter Friend (UPDATE)
Tweets the Clippers guard, although it's since been deleted:...

Kevin Garnett Made One Hell Of A Cooking Metaphor Today
This year's NBA training camp is shorter than usual, and this upsets a lot of players who'd like more time to gel with their teammates. It has especially upset Boston's Kevin Garnett, who blessed us with this train wreck of a cooking metaphor during the Celtics' practice today:...

The Ballad Of Dane Sanzenbacher And His Scrawny, White Friends
Pete Segall and our plucky friends at The Classical have a good story up today about Dane Sanzenbacher and the receiver's burden after one dropped pass in November: "It cannot be easy for Dane Sanzenbacher, and it's easy to imagine the hard thrumming pressure on him, the sensation of letting down th...

Kendrick Perkins Lost A Bunch Of Weight During The Lockout
So what if Perk was miserable about getting traded to OKC? So what if his team got bounced from the playoffs while he played a minor role? So what if he got arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct in August?...

The <em>Postmortal</em> Live Holiday Funbag
All right, we did this once before and it didn't end with Sarah Silverman crying, so let's close out the year with one more live funbag. I'll be here answering your questions from 1 till 4. You know where to send them. Put LIVE FUNBAG in the subject line. I'll get through as many as I can. And if yo...

Steve Kerr Unloads On NBA Owners, Calls Dan Gilbert A Baby
After three seasons as the personnel guy in Phoenix, Steve Kerr returned to TV because he wasn't very good at GMing. But he has opinions about the league blocking a Chris Paul-to-Lakers deal. They are refreshingly angry and candid and probably assure that Kerr will be staying on the media side for a...

The Lockout Is Forgiven, Now That We Have This Photo Of Hedo Turkoglu and Stan Van Gundy
We no longer even care where Chris Paul goes, or where Dwight Howard goes, or if they actually ever play basketball. This photo exists, and that's enough. [Orlando Sentinel]...