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It wasn’t exactly a star studded NBA skills challenge this year, but you did have the Raptors Kyle Lowry and the Bucks Brandon Knight. While Atlanta was routing for Jeff Teague, you just had the feeling Knight or Lowry were going to take it. Knight did make it to the finals, but it was the [...]

It wasn’t pretty with both players missing shot after shot, but ultimately when actor Michael Rapaport stepped in to reveal the ‘Game Changer’ shot to end the contest, John Wall and Steph Curry were relieved to see their final shot was a crossover and jumper from three. They can nail those in their sleep right? [...]

Kevin Hart has once again won the MVP of the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. He was quick to remind everyone of his 4-MVP run in All-Star festivities, and had everyone in stitches when he joked about retiring as there wasn’t much more he could accomplish. He even went as far as comparing himself to Kobe, [...]

It is very rare for the big NBA stars, especially the high flying ones, to never appear in the cornerstone event on NBA All-Star Saturday Night. The Slam Dunk Contest. Dr. J, Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, Vince Carter, Kobe Bryant, Jason Richardson, etc. etc. are all marquee players who had their stardom take off even [...]

As Shaquille O’Neal is a central part of the NBA on TNT crew, he’s obviously in New York City this weekend for the All-Star Weekend festivities. But the big fella arrived in the big apple a bit early and made his way down to Wall Street to chat stocks with the guys in the investment [...]

NBA league Commissioner Adam Silver has been making changes and implementing new ideas for the NBA left, right, and center this year, in his first year after taking over for David Stern. All while dealing with a variety of complicated issues, none more so than ousting of Clippers’ former owner Donald Sterling for his racist [...]

In honor of their 50 year anniversary, Gatorade has digitally re-mastered their most classic commercial ‘Be Like Mike’, starring Michael Jordan. They plan to release the latest version of the commercial this weekend during the All-Star festivities. We may see it live as early as tonight when the events kick off. Here is a sneak [...]

Now that All-Star Weekend is upon us and we will have a little extra down time with the NBA’s new “bye week” taking effect this week with no regular action from Feb. 12-20, I think this is an appropriate time to share some observations of the first 50 games of the season and what it [...]

What we all speculated is now official, George Karl will be the next head coach of the Sacramento Kings after agreeing to a four-year, $14.5 million contract, according to league sources. The Kings (18-34) have been struggling under the helm of interim head coach Tyrone Corbin, which somewhat proved to be an obvious indication that [...]

As the all-star weekend gets set to descend upon New York, we are met with the sad and untimely news that former Knick Anthony Mason has suffered a heart attack and is in critical condition, reportedly fighting for his life. It takes moments like these to remind us all of what’s truly important. We’re all [...]