With the 2012 All-Star Weekend just around the corner, the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest has undergone some last-minute changes. Iman Shumpert of the New York Knicks will no longer compete in the dunk contest, according to sources close to the situation. Shumpert missed Monday’s game against the New Jersey Nets due to a knee injury and he’ll rest during the [...]
Our first clue that the San Antonio Spurs’ league-best 11-game winning streak might be coming to a self-inflicted end came when coach Gregg Popovich announced his starting point guard to the assembled media: “Cory Alexander.” That’s not who Popovich meant to say, obviously — Cory Alexander was a bit player for the Spurs a long, long time ago. So long [...]
It was milestone night at American Airlines Center on Monday night. And Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd did a nifty job of assuming their places in history. Nowitzki tallied 26 points and moved past Robert Parish and into the No. 20 spot on the NBA’s all-time scoring list as the Dallas Mavericks rolled over the Boston Celtics 89-73 before a [...]
Jeremy Lin is not the first Asian-origin person to dominate on a basketball court. Asians of all backgrounds have been breaking ankles, hitting threes, dunking and shutting their opponents down, and they’ve been doing it in playgrounds, in sweaty gyms, in schools, colleges, and in professional leagues around the world. Lin isn’t even the first Asian to be an NBA [...]
Anthony Morrow plans to wear a throwback Nets Jersey when he represents the Nets during All-Star Weekend. But here’s the cool part: Morrow, who has been waiting his whole career to make it to the three-point shootout, doesn’t want his name or number on the back of the jersey he wears. Morrow plans to honor the late Drazen Petrovic by [...]
Thunder starting guard Thabo Sefolosha confirmed Friday night he likely will miss at least one month while trying to recover from a tendon injury in his right foot. NBA BASKETBALL: Thabo Sefolosha during the Oklahoma City Thunder media day at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman Sefolosha’s [...]
The least profitable death pool in history might be the one that aims to predict the demise of the San Antonio Spurs. It’s been a decade-long exercise that accelerates with each injury to Manu Ginobili, every trade rumor that has Tony Parker being shipped off and every moment when Tim Duncan seems like he might finally succumb to the hands [...]
Hidden deep in ESPN’s Weekend Dime, on a sidebar story about Jeremy Lin, is a chart of the league leaders in fourth-quarter PER (minimum 100 fourth quarter minutes). It’s got the usual suspects — Chris Paul naturally leads the league, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James make appearances at fourth and fifth, and of course, good ol’ Jeremy Lin ranks third, [...]
Former Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler led his Chinese team, the Zhejiang Lions, to the Chinese Basketball Association playoffs, but team management says they are willing to grant the talented forward an early release to return to the NBA. According to ChinaDaily.com, Chandler’s agent in China said his client will not play in the playoffs or the all-star game, and [...]
It’s unusual to see him sitting behind the bench and not standing in front with his hand on the chin thinking. Maybe he is a consultant with a mainly advise role,but it’s obvious, the 2012 Lakers team is pretty influenced from Messina’s philosophy at both ends of the court. Let’s take a look to the characteristics of his philosophy that [...]
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