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Yesterday, Denver’s George Karl was named NBA Coach of the Year as he led a very good Nuggets team to the third best record in the Western Conference. Despite not having a prototypical “go-to-man” in terms of offense, what they do works. And you don’t always need that go-to scorer as evidence by the 2003-04 [...]

Talk about court vision. Talk about being able to drop a bounce pass on a dime, right on point. Then add the degree of difficulty it takes to throw that perfect pass in traffic from behind your back. Lebron James is a magician. Even Magic Johnson and Steve Nash would be in awe on this [...]

Granted, this isn’t a fashion blog. It’s an NBA basketball blog. But we just can’t help ourselves here. Russell Westbrook and Dwyane Wade have been making a splash with fashion during NBA playoff post-game pressers for a couple years now. But is this jacket Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade wore to the post-game presser last night [...]

NSFW but you HAVE to see this photo from Noah’s ejection tonight. twitter.com/HPbasketball/s… — Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) May 9, 2013 [...]

And you thought Dwight Howard was indecisive. Phil Jackson remains a sought after head coach. How could he not? He’s won 11 titles as a sideline stalker and in 20 years on the job, he’s never once coached a team to a record below .500. Teams want that type of resume in their locker room. [...]

Carmelo Anthony isn’t going to lose sleep over LeBron James not unanimously being voted the NBA’s MVP. Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe has been receiving plenty of criticism for choosing ‘Melo over LeBron as the league’s most valuable player, and Anthony, for the life of him, can’t seem to figure out why (via Matt [...]

Feel free to panic, but Kevin Durant won’t. After the Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the Memphis Grizzlies at home in Game 2 of the second round of the NBA playoffs, some folks were prepared to hit the panic button. To be clear, we’re talking about the same panic button the world was ready to [...]

The Denver Nuggets were one of the surprise stories of the NBA season. Although they are devoid of you would classify as a superstar, they have a bunch of guys that gel on the court and really play well together. In fact, they only lost 3 games at home all season long and earned a [...]

On the 18th anniversary of the famous Pacers-Knicks battle where Reggie Miller scored 8 points in 9 seconds to defeat the Knicks and gave the choke sign to Knicks Superfan Spike Lee, Miller was feeling playful on twitter yesterday afternoon: Since its the anniversary of the 8pts, maybe I walk by Spike tonight and give [...]

Dunk of the year? Probably not. Put-back dunk of the playoffs? ABSOLUTELY! Knicks swingman Iman Shumpert played with a lot of energy in Game 2 (like most of the Knicks, not named Smith), but it was this put-back dunk off the missed shot that ignited the crowd at MSG and had Knicks fans buzzing. Dominant [...]