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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 [...]

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Typically, whenever a restricted free agent signs an offer sheet with another squad, he’s just posturing for more money from the incumbent team. But when he actually says that he’d rather play for the team in which he signed the offer sheet for, that’s an entirely different situation. Last summer, that was the exact situation [...]

Pretty much everything we know about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Metta World Peace defies sheer logic, so it should come as no surprise that he’s planning on returning to the court soon. Really soon. Like now. Okay, it’s still surprising. Per Sam Amick of USA Today,World Peace plans to suit up and ultimately play in [...]

With their loss to the Clippers yesterday, the Lakers have zero margin for error in order to make the playoffs. They trail Utah by a half-game for that 8th and final playoff spot and Utah owns the tie-breaker. Basically, the Lakers need to win their remaining games and hope everything else falls their way. All [...]

For more than a decade, we’ve come to grow most familiar with Kenny Smith by way of his NBA analysis on TNT’s coverage of the NBA. However, for the past couple of years, he and the crew have done the NCAA tournament as well. By way of him working the NCAA tournament, Kenny has teamed [...]

While over where I am in the Western Hemisphere and all, the Li-Ning Way of Wade isn’t available to us right now save for the about 150 pairs that are in the US right now that aren’t owned by Dwyane Wade. It is about to hurt that much more for those anxiously waiting for their [...]

Gary Payton’s election to the Basketball Hall of Fame is a fitting final chapter for one of the greatest guards in NBA history. A product of Oakland, California, Payton was maybe the grittiest defender and greatest trash-talking point guard of all-time. During his 17-year career (1990-2007), Payton, also known as “GP” and “The Glove,” averaged: [...]