Offbeat

Could Adam Morrison be the Jeremy Lin, ‘come from nowhere’, story of the 2013 season? We told you that we are rooting for Morrison after becoming the laughing stock of the leauge and labelled as an all-time NBA Draft bust. The Blazers gave Morrison a shot during training camp, and so far so good. Morrison [...]

Lebron James, like the rest of the greats, spends every offseason trying to improve somehow. Even coming off an MVP season and winning the championship ring, there are always ways to get better. Lebron has decided this offseason to add a new move to his offensive arsenal. The skyhook and babyhook out of the post. [...]

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Russell Westbrook certainly has a unique spin on the whole hipster/nerd chic fashion style. For years he has been wearing the Urkel-esque glasses that recently during the NBA Finals got all sorts of media attention. It seemed to be mainly the media who was trying to manufacture a feud between Durant/Westbrook and the Heat’s Wade/James [...]

Doesn’t Ivan Johnson just seem like one of those guys you’d want on your side in a streetfight? He is definitely one of the blue collar success stories in the NBA right now. While he might not be a Ben Wallace, he plays the game with same grit and intensity, almost like it may be [...]

The Santa Cruz Warriors (Golden State’s D-League affiliate) held open tryouts recently. Whenever a team has open tryouts, it brings in just about any and everyone, still holding on to their hoop dreams. It even brought out a 76-year old who wanted to cross something off of his “bucket list.” Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel [...]

A couple years ago Marvel Comics previewed the NBA season by creating a comic book cover for each NBA team. It was pretty cool, and resonated with NBA fans and bloggers quite quickly going viral. Now, ESPN has teamed up with Marvel Comics to create an entire comic book dedicated to Lebron James “King of [...]

The war of words between Kobe Bryant and Smush Parker continues. Kobe couldn’t stop laughing Friday when talking about Smush Parker’s 35 minute interview where he fired back at him. “I was devastated,” Bryant said. “What’s he going to do? ‘Yeah, Kobe’s right?’ I gave him his little 30 minutes of fame again. I wish [...]

A couple years ago when Brian Scalabrine left Boston and landed in Chicago the Bulls fans embraced Scalabrine more than anyone could have expected. He was quickly nicknamed “The White Mamba” as an obvious play on the nickname of LA’s Kobe Bryant, “The Black Mamba”. Now that Scalabrine has retired and taking up a position [...]

Adam Morrison has had quite a roller coaster career. After being drafted in 2006 by the Charlotte Bobcats with the 3rd overall selection, the expectations for Morrison were sky high. He had a few decent showings in his rookie campaign, putting up acceptable numbers for a rookie, but the problem was he was shooting a [...]