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Performance enhancing drugs in sports is something that has been around for a while and doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. From cycling to football to baseball, we hear of new stories all the time. But for the most part, basketball has avoided the conversation. That’s primarily because you can make the argument [...]

For the last few years now, the lunar Chinese calendar has served as the inspiration for some of the best sneaker colorways ever so its no wonder that the upcoming Jordan Brand ‘Year Of The Snake’ pack has been getting so much love. On the ‘Year of the Snake’ Jordan I, multi-colored patent leather is [...]

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It’s a common belief that the Utah Jazz are going to deal one or both of Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap, and the latest has the San Antonio Spurs making a push for the former. According to Chris Sheridan of SherdianHoops.com, San Antonio has emerged as the frontrunner to pry Jefferson away from Utah: The [...]

According to a tweet from CBS Sports Pau Gasol is out at least six weeks with a partial tear of his plantar fascia in his foot. If the Lakers were planning to trade the big fella before the trade deadline, this can’t be good for negotiations. Unless of course being on the injured list is [...]

Who else loves the phantom camera videos the NBA puts out in super flow motion high definition? If you’re a videophile you love them, if you’re a basketball fan you ADORE them. Peep the Black Mamba Brooklyn Nets facial from this week, in phantom mode… [...]

Dwight Howard has often been proclaimed as the best center in the NBA, and his combinations of nightly double-doubles and third row swats make that title difficult to refute. Nonetheless, Howard’s most talented and dominating teammate has recently put the league’s premier big man to a challenge. In an away game against the Suns, LA [...]

Over the past decade or so, the halftime performance for the NBA’s All-Star game has gradually become a bigger deal. The acts that have been booked have been major compared to the past. This year, Alicia Keys has been tabbed as the halftime entertainment. Keys has had a busy month, as she sang the National [...]

With the NBA All-Star Weekend just next weekend, Jordan Brand officially announces the sneakers they are releasing to celebrate the biggest basketball weekend. Inspired by all things stealth, the design seen on the Air Jordan XX8 shroud is a direct inspiration from the waves seen while wearing night-vision goggles.  That is very important to remember [...]

Danilo Gallinari can score. Sometimes it’s pretty, sometimes it’s not. His game-icing bucket against the Milwaukee Bucks though was pretty—pretty damn wild. With the Denver Nuggets ahead by four and less than a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, Ty Lawson poked away an entry pass made by Brandon Jennings. Gallinari came up with the [...]