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NBA Roundup: It's Much More Difficult For Kobe To Score His Number These Days
Notes from Friday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
NBA Slogan Fever: We Love This CATCH IT!
We've always been amused by teams' dopey slogans for the season; the worst one we can remember is the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals' "Red Means Go." We have absolutely no idea what that means, and we sincerely tried....
NBA Roundup: I Read The NOOCH Today, Oh Boy
Notes from Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
Jackie Christie's Less-Than-Exclusive Club
We haven't been watching much of the BET reality show "The Christies," about beleaguered NBAer Doug Christie and his wife Jackie, if just because the dysfunctional Christies relationship stopped interesting us a couple of years ago. (OK: We're also terrified of reality television. We accept that we ...
NBA Roundup: The Cuban Fizzle Crisis
Notes from Wednesday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
Etan Thomas Has Got Your Peace RIGHT HERE
When Washington Wizards forward Etan Thomas isn't busy extolling the virtues of Abe Pollin's prostate in lyrical poem form or reminding us that David Stern doesn't care about black people, apparently, he whittles away the hours getting in fights with teammate Brendan Haywood....
NBA Roundup: Look! Up In The Sky! ...
Taking a look at Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
Pointing Out The Idiocy Of A New Rule
A truly outstanding find from The Wizard Of Odds: Apparently, during the Joe Paterno broken leg game between Penn State and Wisconsin — JoePa's return has been pretty amazing, by the way; the guy's coaching this week — Badgers coach Bret Bielema either discovered a loophole in the controversial new ...
NBA Roundup: Return Of The Donald
Taking a look at Monday's action in the National Basketball Association:...
NBA Roundup: Of Knees, And Threes And Jumping On Chairs
Taking a look at Sunday's National Basketball Association games:...
NBA Roundup: How Long Until Knicks Fans Start Booing? About Three Games
• Pacers 109, Knicks 95. On an evening where he shot 1-of-9 from the floor, had 1 assist (a shocking number for a point guard who played 26 minutes), four points, and six turnovers, Stephon Marbury heard the boos from the Garden crowd. Although I believe Marbury chose to believe that they were yel...
NBA Roundup: Knicks Win Streak Snapped At One
Taking a look at Friday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
Block A Shot And Boogie: A Day In The Life Of Isiah
This is an older video, and we've never seen it ... but that doesn't make it any less hypnotic. Shake it, Isiah ... SHAKE IT!...
It's Really Just Cruel To Not Allow Rasheed To Bitch And Moan
Much has been written about the new "zero tolerance" rule in the NBA, which allows referees to slap a technical on anybody who so much as sneezes in their general direction. Already, three players have been ejected because of the new rules, including Mike Bibby, Carmelo Anthony and, yes, Rasheed Wal...
NBA Roundup: Two For Texas
Taking a look at Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association:...
Yep, The Costume Works: We're Scared
If you were wondering what the Timberwolves' Mike James went as for Halloween this year — and we know you were — then now you know. He went as ... uh, this. Are we sure this isn't that Deelishis lady?...
Welcome, At Last, To Ron Artest's World
You might have missed it with all the business of watching parades of sexy nurses/witches/superheroes/hockey players pass by, but on Halloween, the new album from Ron Artest "dropped," as they say. It's called "My World," and it is apparently not inspired by the weird song Axl Rose put on the end of...
Vince Carter, Back In Toronto: Awesome Idea!
Last night, the New Jersey Nets — our favorite team to play in NBA Live, by the way; if only they'd just move to Brooklyn already — handled the Toronto Raptors, helped of course by Vince Carter, whose exit from Toronto was one step removed from Tom Cruise refusing to leave the South Park closet unti...
NBA Roundup: Isiah Thomas Farewell Tour Makes First Stop
Notes from yesterday's action in the National Basketball Association ......
NBA Kicks Off In Earnest, And That Means It's Isiah Time!
Well, it's a beautiful time of the year, because not only is there a full slate of NBA games tonight, but one of them involves ... the Knicks! Yep, Isiah's boys tip off tonight in the strangely disappointing locale of Memphis, as they face the Grizzlies. Of all the games tonight, we're most intrigue...