Derrick Rose is the “it” guy. Not to be confused with IT guy. Rose won’t be fixing any computers for you. Rather, he has that charismatic quality about him, that go-get it attitude not everyone possesses. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder is sure of it. Rose has gotten off to a fast start [...]
October 25, 2013
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Close your eyes, then pinch yourself; I promise you’re not dreaming. Greg Oden is back on the basketball court. Seriously. And he’s dunking. Seriously. Oden took the floor for the Miami Heat against the New Orleans Pelicans. It was the first time he checked into an NBA game since December of 2009. Think of all [...]
October 25, 2013
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If this Lakers’ season were a new movie, what would you call it? “Escape Plan?” Oh, wait D-12 already did that. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?” Or maybe “Prisoners,” to describe the Lakers fans and perhaps Bryant, himself. As the Lakers prepare to start the 2013-2014 season without veteran 5-time NBA champion and [...]
October 25, 2013
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Blogs, R.S. De France
Just leave it alone, Doc. LeBron James took exception to the way Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce treated Ray Allen after he left the Boston Celtics for the Miami Heat in 2012. He thought they were hypocrites for dissing a former teammate after he left for greener pastures, before doing the same thing. And he [...]
October 24, 2013
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Andrew Wiggins hasn’t even played a college basketball game yet, but the hype surrounding him is off the charts. In fact, we haven’t seen this much hype from someone who is not even in the NBA yet since…LeBron James. And that’s where Wiggins has had enough apparently. Because of their freakish athleticism at such a [...]
October 24, 2013
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In a very similar colorway to the ‘Big Bang’ LeBron IX from the 2011 All-Star Weekend, the ‘Forging Iron’ LeBron 11 is definitely all orange everything with the bright color seen on every notable feature like the Dynamic Flywire cables, Armorposite upper & Hyperfused mesh. All of this sits on top of a slight Walter [...]
October 24, 2013
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Kicks, Official Releases
You knew this one was coming. For the 12th-year running, the NBA polled all 30 of its general managers on the happenings of the league. Questions ranged from “Which team will be most improved in 2013-14?” to “Which player is best at moving without the ball?” to “Why in the hell won’t the Boston Celtics [...]
October 24, 2013
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It’s been a long time since we heard the name Victor Page. We are going back a bit, but it was he, and not Allen Iverson that was the MVP of the 1996 Big East Tournament. And when Iverson took his talents to the NBA the following season, it was Page that was the stand-out [...]
October 24, 2013
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