Five-time NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher wins the Sportsman of the Year award at the Sixth Annual L.A. Sports Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday night. The L.A. Sports Awards is an annual awarding event presented by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Fisher said, “It’s always quite humbling to receive awards for not just things you [...]
Two former NBA coaches are still getting recognized for their past achievements in the League. Mike Fratello, also known as “The Czar,” has been reported to have verbally agreed to coach the Ukrainian National Team at the European Championship scheduled at the latter part of the third quarter this year. A contract agreement will be signed within the next few [...]
Solar TV, the official television carrier of the Philippine Basketball Association, is being fined by the PBA for breach of contract. On Thursday, PBA Commissioner Angelico Salud imposed a fine of 3 million pesos (roughly 87,424.34 Singapore Dollars) against Solar Entertainment Corporation for not airing the game between the Alaska Aces and the Powerade Tigers live on the Studio 23 [...]
According to Yahoo! Sports, league sources confirmed that the Los Angeles Clippers have agreed in principle to trade away Baron Davis to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Mo Williams. The Cavaliers will also receive an unprotected first round pick in 2011 in exchange for small forward Jamario Moon. Davis, 31, was the third overall pick of the then-Charlotte Hornets [...]
Finally, the Carmelo Anthony drama has ended. After months of anticipation from the entire basketball world and the fans, a league source has confirmed that Carmelo Anthony has now been traded by the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks. Anthony, a Nugget for 7 and a half seasons, was part of a blockbuster deal that involved more than [...]
The NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest this year did not disappoint! It was a refreshing one despite featuring 2 big men contestants in an event that were supposed to be for smaller players (Dwight Howard is really a pioneer!). All 4 participants – Blake Griffin, JaVale McGee, Serge Ibaka, and DeMar Derozan put up a show! The idea to [...]
Kobe Bryant said he was motivated by the amount of youth he was surrounded with in the game, in the likes of the NBA’s next generation of stars in Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, and Kevin Love. That reason propelled him to his double-double performance of 37 points (career-high in the event) and 14 rebounds to lead the Western [...]
After reports of a supposed meet-up between Denver Nuggets’ All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony and New Jersey Nets’ owner Mikhail Prokhorov a month ago, the two has finally proceeded with their meeting on Saturday evening. For less than sixty minutes, Prokhorov and minority partner Jay-Z met with Anthony to persuade him on signing a 3-year $ 65 million contract extension. [...]
Two former Kentucky Wildcats teammates worked together to give the rookies the victory the second straight year over the sophomores in the NBA Rookie Challenge. John Wall of the Washington Wizards and DeMarcus Cousins of the Sacramento Kings combined forces to give a 148-140 rookie team victory over the sophomore team at the NBA All-Star weekend on Friday night. Wall [...]
FIBA Europe has announced on Friday morning that Milos Teodosic of Serbia is the 2010 European Player of the Year. The versatile Teodosic, 23, can play both point guard and shooting guard positions and had led the Serbian National Team to the semi-finals during the FIBA World Championship in Turkey last year. He was also the MVP of the Euroleague [...]
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