Kobe Bryant

Since the Easter holiday is only a couple of weeks away, Nike is ready to lace their flagship players like Kevin Durant and LeBron James with new coloways of their signature sneakers. Nothing new on the ‘Easter’ KD VI as far as performance features go. The colorway inspiration comes from the Easter egg hunt with [...]

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni has a backup plan if his NBA gig is taken away from him. Or rather, he could. And he most definitely should. Sources told ESPN’s Jeff Goodman and Marc Stein the Marshall Thundering Herd, D’Antoni’s Alma Mater, reached out to him about becoming their next head coach: Marshall [...]

With the NBA Playoffs just around the corner, Nike gears up their signature basketball athletes with their Nike Elite sneakers in this new ‘Hero’ colorway. All of the technical sneaker aspects of the Nike Basketball Elite ‘Hero’ Series are the same as from the Team Elite series colorways scheduled to release in April. There is [...]

Meet Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and resident broken record. While Cuban is prone to repeating himself, it’s not all his doing. He’s asked the same questions over and over and over and over again, Groundhog Day-style. It’s never, “How do you feel about bowl haircuts?” or “Are you supplied with unlimited cheese [...]

The NBA Playoffs are about a month away so the time is ripe for Nike to unveil the updated versions of their premiere signature sneakers for the post season. Take a look at what Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and (possibly) Kobe Bryant will be wearing as part of the 2014 Nike Elite Team sneaker series. [...]

If Kobe Bryant’s will be done, then Mike D’Antoni’s tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers will soon be over. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, Bryant wants the Lakers to hire a new coach before next season: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith reported on Wednesday morning that he had heard D’Antoni would be out, and [...]

Carmelo Anthony is blind. You knew he was frustrated, what with the New York Knicks losing at warped paces. You knew he was probably even hardened, deadened to the fact that the Knicks are this listless and browbeaten one season after winning 54 games. But I bet you didn’t know he was blind to the [...]

Kevin Love is really good at pointing out the obvious. During an interview with GQ‘s Steve Marsh, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 2015 free-agent-to-be was of course asked about his future, which was of course tied to the Los Angeles Lakers, so of course Love was forced to address the issue and of course his response was [...]

Congratulations everyone! We haven’t forced you to slog through Dwight Howard- and Los Angeles Lakers-centric drama in quite awhile. Like all good streaks, though, this one too must come to an end. Now. Before returning to Los Angeles for the first time since signing with the Houston Rockets in free agency, Howard was naturally asked [...]

With all the talk about where Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James will end up this summer, money and salary are on the minds of NBA GM’s as usual, but it got us thinking about the richest players in the NBA today. 10-T. Shawn Marion 35-year old 4-time All-Star Shawn Marion has made about $10 million [...]