It’s hard to believe that Kobe Bean Bryant, otherwise known as the “Black Mamba”, turns 35 years old today. I still can remember Kobe as an arrogant teenager back in 1996, when he was already being mentioned in the same breath as NBA all time great Wilt Chamberlain, as he was shattering Pennsylvania state high [...]
August 23, 2013
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Iman Shumpert is going to let the New York Knicks’ play do the talking. Newly crowned member of the Brooklyn Nets Paul Pierce has a personal vendetta he is seeking to carry about against the Knicks. It’s been that way for more than 15 years, when he began his career with the Boston Celtics. That [...]
August 22, 2013
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One can learn a lot of things about Nate Robinson on Twitter. As of this moment, Robinson has almost 935,000 followers and has tweeted more than 14,000 times. A lot can come out in 14,000 tweets, as we know all too well. And a lot has. Most recently, during a rapid-fire question session with his [...]
August 22, 2013
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It’s been a long time coming and seemingly everyone knew it but Allen Iverson, but it appears that the A.I. comeback trail is officially over. Surely we all remember back to a time when Iverson was regularly breaking ankles, embarrassing opposing guards, dropping buckets, and lighting up scoreboards at an alarming rate. Hard to believe, [...]
August 22, 2013
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Before there was James Harden, there was Jeremy Lin. Remember that. Lin himself sure does. While at the “Dream Big, Be Yourself” youth conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Lin admitted that he believed he was going to be tasked with saving the Houston Rockets, according to The Gospel Herald’s Lauren Leigh Noske: I was ready to [...]
August 21, 2013
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Carmelo Anthony officially knows Raymond Felton has his back. Talking with Lang Whitaker of NBA.com (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Felton touched upon what it’s like to play alongside ‘Melo, a synopsis which included a voluntary admittance that the New York Knicks’ forward was a better scorer than Kevin Durant: Because he scores in so many ways. There’s [...]
August 21, 2013
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Kobe Bryant is shattering the timetable behind his recovery so the Lakers are going to give him a new one. Per Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register, the Black Mamba is going to be re-examined in a few weeks, at which point an updated timetable for his return will be created. For any player [...]
August 20, 2013
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Dwyane Wade doesn’t foresee LeBron James abandoning the Miami Heat. Prior to the start of his fantasy basketball camp at Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Wade admitted he believed LeBron wasn’t going anywhere next summer, when he’s eligible to hit free agency. “I have no reason to believe anything else,” he said of the Big Three [...]
August 20, 2013
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