Blogs

September 20, 2010 – Kevin Burke One of the most highly anticipated NBA seasons in recent memory is finally just over a month away from tipping off. However, with free agency and the FIBA World Championships, there has been plenty of basketball related stories to talk about to get us through the summer. Well, we can [...]

September 20, 2010 – Allen Moll With the Summer almost officially over and basketball on all levels in a slow period as we await the start of training camp, it’s time to start to prognosticate on just how the 2010-2011 NBA season will play out. Some of the game’s best players have not only changed [...]

September 16, 2010 – R.S. De France With 11-time all star, and probable Hall of Famer, Allen Iverson about to join Stephon Marbury in NBA-exile by playing in China, it has many, including AI’s personal manager, wondering why AI has not gotten a call from any NBA teams. “We’re very astonished, to say the least, [...]

September 17, 2010 – Kevin Burke It’s no secret that the NBA goes through different eras.  All of which played a role in giving us the league in which we know and love today. We currently live in the the era of the scoring perimeter player. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tracy McGrady, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, [...]

September 17, 2010 – Allen Moll Many American fans tout the legendary Michael Jordan, “Dr J” Julius Erving, or even Vince Carter as the best all-time NBA dunk artists. But one international streetball legend named Kadour Ziani has been doing some spectacular dunks for nearly 20 years world-wide, that would make even the legendary MJ or [...]

September 16, 2010 – Allen Moll Do you long for some great throwback NBA and NCAA footage of superstars of the past featuring some of the game’s best players? Do you miss watching games in which the jump shot was an art form and not an afterthought? Longing to see some of the hardwood’s greatest [...]

September 16, 2010 – Allen Moll Before sustaining an unfortunate and untimely knee injury playing football last September, Tony Wroten Jr. was well on his way to becoming the #1 rated point guard prospect in the stacked 2011 HS Class. That’s saying a lot, considering the class is loaded with a plethora of game-changing pont [...]

September 15, 2010 – Dr. Anklesnap Stephon Marbury has been one one crazy character in the NBA for a long time. He is a media darling and a PR nightmare all at the same time due to his antics and odd off the court behaviour. But he’s in China now, trying to salvage what’s left [...]

September 15, 2010 – Kevin Burke Back for it’s 3rd season, the award-winning Gatorade REPLAY stages re-matches of classic games between some the nation’s best high school sports teams and gives former teammates the chance to prove once you’re an athlete, you’re always an athlete. This year, it reunited two South Side Chicago high school [...]

September 15, 2010 – Allen Moll With the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame recently inducting former Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen into their hallowed halls of greatness, what better time to give one of the NBA’s Top 50 Players of All Time his very own multi-part, weekly Player Rewind Series. Scottie was the antithesis of [...]