En route to a dominant Miami Heat win over Michael Jordan’s Charlotte Bobcats tonight, Lebron James wanted to send a message to the GOAT sitting on the Bobcats sideline. As he ran the break on way to one of his patented and vicious one-handed dunks, he looked over at MJ for more than a few [...]
April 26, 2014
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Highlights, Offbeat
In case you have been living under a rock for the past couple of days, you’ve probably heard the audio tape of Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling being a racist jerk in a conversation with his girlfriend. Even talking smack about Magic Johnson saying he doesn’t want him or other ‘black people’ to come to Clippers [...]
April 26, 2014
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Offbeat
FILA is an example of a 1990s athletic sneaker company that has a deep basketball pedigree. With Retro kicks from that era of the NBA being more popular than ever it makes sense for FILA to draw up new colorways of their classic FILA KJ7 model. Inspired by the city of Miami and the associated [...]
April 26, 2014
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Kicks, Official Releases
The Golden State Warriors recently announced that they are planning on moving from Oakland to San Francisco by the 2018-19 season. That’s roughly only 10 miles away, but with that move comes the possibility of a name change. Before they were the Golden State Warriors, they were the San Francisco Warriors. Team brass has been [...]
April 25, 2014
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Rumors
The Indiana Pacers were widely thought to be the ones to dethrone the Miami Heat in the East this year. But after the team fell apart late in the season, that seems unlikely. We don’t even know if they’ll get past the 8 seed Hawks. Whenever something like this happens, the coach is the first [...]
April 25, 2014
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Rumors
Life is about to get good for Lance Stephenson…just not as good as we thought. The Indiana Pacers have been awful. Seriously, they’re bad. A stumbling, bumbling mess of absolute crap on the offensive end. They trail the eighth-seeded Atlanta Hawks 2-1 in their first-round playoff series, Paul George is rapidly becoming one of the [...]
April 25, 2014
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Blogs
Is it the shoes? In Joakim Noah’s case, yes. Or maybe. He sure thinks so. According to a TMZ Sports report, Noah sued his former shoe sponsor in November, claiming it gipped him of money and aided in the progression of his plantar fasciitis: NBA superstar Joakim Noah has sued his former shoe sponsor — [...]
April 25, 2014
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Dante Exum is a wanted man. Excuse me, I mean wanted kid. The electric 6’6″, 18-year-old Australian guard is one of the most highly coveted prospects of this year’s NBA draft. Though he still figures to go behind Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker, and perhaps Joel Embiid, he’s listed as a top-five pick in most [...]
April 25, 2014
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The San Antonio Spurs have been a very good team for about 15 straight years. They’ve been legit title contenders in each of those years, winning in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007. But because they’ve never won back-to-back, many do not consider them a dynasty. In fact, Phil Jackson falls into that category. Phil was [...]
April 24, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors
There’s no shortage of reasons (good reasons or bad) why people dislike LeBron James. One may be that people are fed up with the fact that he occassionally flops even though he’s so big and strong. Last night Josh McRoberts elbowed LeBron in the throat in a play where he didn’t appear to make a [...]
April 24, 2014
Anou Enright
Rumors