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After Carmelo Anthony took a beating from battling Metta World Peace on Christmas Day, the Knicks decided to sit their star scorer for last night’s contest against the Phoenix Suns. But the decision proved to be wise, as 6th man of the year candidate JR Smith stepped up with a big game down the stretch, [...]

When the Toronto Raptors dealt for Kyle Lowry, Jose Calderon was deemed expendable. Now, however, it’s Lowry who may prove to be the odd man out. According to Dough Smith of the Toronto Star, upon his return from yet another injury, Lowry will be coming off the bench in favor of Calderon: Injured Raptors point [...]

The New York Knicks need Amar’e Stoudemire bad. Like really bad. I’m not going to sit here and attempt to explain the intricacies of re-integrating him into the lineup and how it will only help the Knicks—I’ve already done that. What I will sit here and gladly admit to you is that New York is [...]

Denver Nuggets’ forward Jordan Hamilton has been fined $25,000 for directing inappropriate language toward a fan, it was announced today by Stu Jackson, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 3:50 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Nuggets 112-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center on December 25. [...]

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In my opinion, nothing goes better together in conjunction with Christmas than basketball. Who could forget all of those memorable Christmas Day games over the years featuring Bernard King scoring 60 points back in 1984, Patrick Ewing beating Michael Jordan and the Bulls with a last second shot in 1986, and of course the first [...]

Let’s be honest—last year’s NBA Slam Dunk Competition was the embodiment of awful. Far be it from me to belittle players’ displays of athleticism, but not only did the dunk contest lack the big names were used to seeing, but the creativity and explosiveness of the dunks were clearly inferior to what we have become [...]

Amar’e Stoudemire’s decline in production has been well documented. While his first year in NY was productive, that hasn’t been the case since. In fact, the Knicks tried trading him this offseason to just about every team and there were no takers. This past summer, the Knicks offered Stoudemire to nearly every team in the [...]

Andrei Kirilenko has had a pretty darn good return to the NBA thus far. Rejoining via the Timberwolves, “AK47” has been up to his old statistical tricks. Kirilenko is now averaging 13.9 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 3.9 apg, while also contributing 2 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. On two consecutive games, Kirilenko has had to [...]

Basketball on Christmas have become as much apart of the holiday routine as football is to Thanksgiving. Every year, you can bet that there will be marquee NBA games played throughout the day and this year is no different. A growing feature of these holiday games are the sneakers Christmas-themed sneakers high profile players will [...]