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Wilson Chandler and Corey Brewer had big scoring nights. Andre Iguodala had a triple double. The Nuggets were firing on all cylinders last night as they jockey for home court positioning in the Western Conference playoff race. But it was JaVale McGee’s defense that provided the necessary spark to hold the Spurs to 86 points [...]

The New York Knicks needed bodies to supplement their depleted front line with, and their not-so-extensive search brought them to James Singleton. Frank Isola of the New York Daily News first reported that the Knicks were interested in the 31-year-old Singleton, who has spent five seasons in the league with three different teams. Knicks close [...]

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By now, seemingly everyone and their mother has weighed in on the Mike Rice firing at Rutgers.  Just in case, you’ve been living under a rock or something, Rice is the now deposed coach of the men’s basketball team at Rutgers, who was caught on tape heaving basketballs and shouting homosexual slurs at his team [...]

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Pau Gasol has a friend in Kobe Bryant. A good one. A mere few days removed from essentially calling himself and Pau an unstoppable offensive duo, Kobe took his support of the seven footer up a notch. Following the Los Angeles Lakers’ win over the New Orleans Hornets, Bryant called Gasol his “dude” and asserted [...]

I’m not absolutely certain the ball on Rockets’ James Harden’s buzzer beating three point attempt last night had any chance of going in. After hitting the rim hard and bouncing straight up in the air, the Suns Jermaine O’Neal deflected the ball on the descent back out to the perimeter. The rules state that if [...]

Lebron James is currently on top of the world. He’s the best player on the defending champion Miami Heat, arguably the best player in the NBA as he awaits his next MVP award, and his team is positioned a top the leaderboard to make another championship push. Life is good. In fact his joy is [...]

The Bulls’ Joakim Noah has been sidelined for a while now with a foot injury. That means, they’ve been without their best perimeter player (Rose) and best frontcourt player when it matters most. Noah was supposed to be nearing a return, but has suffered a setback. With the playoffs less than a month away, and [...]

A few years ago, even though LeBron James was pretty much universally hated for leaving Cleveland for Miami, he still had the NBA’s best-selling jersey. In fact, he had that distinction for his first two years in Miami. He has finally been unseated, by Carmelo Anthony. I must say, this is quite surprising. Of all [...]