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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 [...]

It sounds odd just even saying it out loud. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) is actually considering adding three players a side, half court basketball to the list of events for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. 3-on3 hoops is fun to play and fun to watch, but maybe I’m a bit old school. When it [...]

Seth Davis is a fixture on the college basketball scene and has been there all along during this NCAA Tournament run to provide his in-depth analysis. In the spirit of teamwork, Seth has teamed up with SUBWAY to provide a very powerful message. While in Atlanta for the Final Four, Seth and Jared, the SUBWAY [...]

Oak Hill Academy has a college-level amount of NBA alumni despite only being a high school in Virginia. Players like Carmelo Anthony, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Durant, Rajon Rondo, & Josh Smith have all worn a Oak Hill Warriors jersey while in high school so it is not surprising to see this HS hoops powerhouse get [...]