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 [...]
They have a saying over at NiuBBall: There is no parity in the Chinese Basketball Association. Understand: Since the CBA went to a best-of-five format for the first round and semis in 2005, never has there been a do-or-die Game 5. Since the CBA went to a best-of-seven format for the finals a year later, only two teams – Bayi [...]
Zhejiang Guangsha, who played the entire regular season with Wilson Chandler, will now have to play the entire post-season without him after both sides agreed to let him return to the United States to negotiate his next NBA contract after he helped the team secure a Playoff berth. Chandler is already back in the U.S., where he is reportedly in [...]
Congratulations go out from BallinEurope today to a quartet of national Cup holders in Real Madrid, Beşiktaş Milangaz, Chalon-sur-Saone and Montepaschi Siena. The former three victories are set to be particularly noted in club annals: Real ended a 19-year drought while Beşiktaş and Chalon both bagged their first-ever championships in their respective national cup tournaments after each were runners-up in [...]
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 [...]
FORK UNION, Va. – Fletcher Arritt Jr. stands at midcourt in the gym he’s known as home since before most of his players’ parents were born. He lightly pops a basketball in the palm of his left hand, punching it with his right. It’s a restless, happy habit. He is waiting for his players to appear. How many practices has [...]
AIR ASIA PHILIPPINE PATRIOTS over CHANG THAILAND SLAMMERS, 81-72 It was a highly anticipated game as the two past champions of the AirAsia ASEAN Basketball League faced off for the first time this season. In a game reminiscent of the Season 2 Finals, which saw the Thais lift the trophy, the Patriots came back from a 13-point deficit to beat [...]
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 [...]
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