China just lost all three of their exhibition games in Australia against the Australian National Team, which means — not surprisingly — that Chinese media and fans are having mild freak outs. Naturally, when there isn’t any meaningful basketball to be played really until the first game of the Olympics, people get excited about three straight losses. Even though… Winning or [...]
Plenty of hype has been built around the Dream Team doc airing on NBATV tomorrow night (9pm EST), and rightfully so. One of the more under-played aspects of the program to this point, however, is the criticism of Isiah Thomas – who was famously left off the team – by some of the Dream Teamers. Per the NY Post: “In [...]
After the Violent incident between China and Brazil back then, CBA sent out a formal letter of apology written in Chinglish to the Brazilian Basketball Federation, which promised to hand out punishments to Academy Award nominated Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) and the rest of the team for their roles in the fight. The letter can be seen in all [...]
LeBron James is making a guarantee about this third NBA Finals appearance: This time there will be no regrets. Though his playoff career has been accomplished, the two worst series of James’ career have been his two previous trips to the Finals. Speaking Monday as he and his Miami Heat teammates prepared to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in Tuesday’s [...]
An entire generation has entered basketball since his untimely passing and while ever-growing numbers of NBA and European stars who have never seen him play emerge, all owe a debt to Dražen Petrović. It was on this day in 1993 that the only man who realistically could have held claim to the sobriquet of “the European Michael Jordan” was killed [...]
As chosen by online voting, here are the Russian PBL’s top 10 plays of 2011-12. In case you’re wondering, yes, CSKA Moscow is all over this thing with a couple of alley-oops involving Andrey Vorontsevich and a ridiculously effortless longer-than-halfcourt pass from Milos Teodosic to Andrei Kirilenko. Via (BallinEurope)
It’s the last scene of 2008’s superhero classic (and in my opinion, the greatest superhero movie ever made) ‘The Dark Knight’. Batman takes the blame for murders committed by Harvey Dent, aka ‘Two-Face’, to protect Dent’s posthumous identity as Gotham City’s shining White Knight. In doing so, Batman has to face the wrath of society as a criminal and flee, [...]
Carmelo Anthony knows the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team headed to London may not be the powerhouse that was expected. Not without the likes of Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose, the best of the Americans who have been knocked out. “Injuries, man. Injuries is doing it all,” Anthony said Monday. Anthony is still healthy, along with what he feels is [...]
8th placing : Kenny George 7 feet 7 inches Kenny George was the tallest division 1 basketball player ever. 7th placing : Gheorghe Muresan 7 feet 7 inches Gheorghe Muresan is a retired NBA player. He averaged 9.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. 6th placing : Manute Bol 7 feet 7 inches Manute Bol was a Sudanese basketball player [...]
Anthony Davis may very well be the shiny new thing in the NBA that everyone’s pumped up about, but that doesn’t mean it will translate into him taking part in the Olympic Games this summer. According to USA Basketball honcho Jerry Colangelo, that is. Reports the Lexington Herald Leader: “Jerry Colangelo, the man who leads this country’s effort in international [...]
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