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The NBA schedule makers did the right things by placing the Knicks in Brooklyn to take on the Nets for each team’s season opener. New York is buzzing right now, and this game is why. But if you want to be at the game and sit courtside, be prepared to spend a pretty penny. Tickets [...]

Championships are won inside-out. Typically, anyway. If you have LeBron James and Dwyane Wade roaming the perimeter, I guess that rule doesn’t apply. But if you ask Wade, he still feels as if the Heat are vulnerable down low. “Yeah, we have weaknesses,” said Wade, whose Heat went 46-20 during the 2011-12 lockout-shortened campaign, an [...]

NBA TV’s Open Court is a great platform for ridiculously interesting opinions and “did you know…” moments. Last season, Charles Barkley talked about how his mother would take his sneakers away after every game, “because they had to last the whole season.”, said Barkley. We also heard guys like Steve Smith talk about who was [...]

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We just got word from the marketing team at Bombo and NBA Entertainment that Tuesday, October 30th is the magic date to circle on your calendars. That is when they plan to release the Blu-Ray and DVD pack of the film “Wired: A Season Inside the NBA” which gives fans really cool and exclusive behind-the-scenes [...]

That a basketball player finds some sort of guiding figure in Mike Krzyzewski should be no surprise. With a collection of national titles and Olympic medals, Coach K is about as credible a source of counsel as it gets. In Coach K, James sees an opportunity to benefit from a trade-off. Before he decided to [...]

The preseason is a necessary evil. You need it so that teams can work out the kinks, but of course there’s always the risk of injury. The latter was the case for New Orleans rookie Austin Rivers who left yesterday’s preseason game with a sprained ankle. The same ankle he has surgery on a few [...]

There has been a lot of hype in Lakerland about the debut of Dwight Howard after missing a good chuck of the preseason. Last night the time finally came for the second coming of ‘Superman’ in LA. Dwight had a solid showing with a double double in limited minutes. But more importantly Howard showed good [...]

With the NBA season and NCAA basketball season approaching, the basketball division at Under Armour invited us out to their Fall 2012 product showcase out in New York City.  On display were redesigned, lighter uniforms for the select few Under Armour-sponsored college teams like University of Maryland, Texas Tech, and Temple along with various colorways [...]

Dwight Howard made his Lakers debut last night, albeit in preseason action. Dwight finished with a double-double and looked right at home. He picked up right where he left off. His first bucket as a Laker? An alley-oop of course: [...]