Kobe Bryant will sit out the Los Angeles Lakers’ regular-season finale on Thursday against the Sacramento Kings and concede the chance to catch Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant for the NBA scoring title. Bryant, averaging 27.86 points per game, would have needed 38 points to catch Durant and win the title outright. Durant finished the regular season averaging 28.03 points per [...]
Kevin Durant cringes a little whenever he hears his name next to words like elite or superstar. But after winning his first All-Star MVP award with a scoring display that ranked among the best in the game’s history, even Durant might have to acknowledge his own NBA stardom. The Oklahoma City Thunder forward scored 36 points and grabbed seven rebounds [...]
Amare Stoudemire, Kevin Durant and Baron Davis are some NBA players with time on their hands due to the league’s ongoing labor dispute, and are finding that showbiz offers an opportunity to fill their schedules. NBA players with time on their hands due to the league’s ongoing labor dispute are finding that showbiz offers an opportunity to fill their schedules. While some [...]
After weeks of wrangling and posturing, the Drew League will get its rematch in Los Angeles with the Goodman League, as the two sides finally came together on a date that could work — Oct. 9 — so long as there is no progress made on the NBA labor front. The rematch appeared unlikely two weeks ago, when Drew League [...]
A game between “Team Philly” and “Team Melo” is scheduled for Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. at The Palestra. The game already included all-NBA rosters for both sides, plus Carmelo Anthony, plus 76ers combo guard Lou Williams, plus a bunch of solid NBA names. Now it includes LeBron James, Chris Paul, and Kevin Durant — four of basketball’s biggest names [...]
After news broke that the Indiana-based Indy Pro Am would be putting together a squad—featuring Eric Gordon, Zach Randolph and George Hill—to take on the DC-based Goodman League on September 24 at Butler University, many figured it was only a matter of time until Goodman countered with some NBAers of its own to rep its side. Ever since he led [...]
About an hour before the most star-studded summer league game tipped off at Morgan State’s Hill Field House, I spotted Goodman League commissioner and master of ceremony for the night, Miles Rawls, and asked him about when his team was going to have a rematch against the Drew League in Los Angeles. Rawls again mentioned that they are looking at [...]
Early in the third quarter of his team’s 135-134 victory over the Los Angeles-based Drew League, Goodman League commissioner Miles Rawls looked down at the opponent to his right and said, “It’s a long flight to L.A. with an ‘L’ on the chest.” We got that W for D.C. (John McDonnell – THE WASHINGTON POST) The words elicited laughter from [...]
Turkey-based news outlets are this morning reporting that Beşiktaş Cola Turka, a.k.a. Deron Williams’ new and Allen Iverson’s former team, is setting its sights on Kevin Durant as Kobe Bryant has not yet responded to overtures from the big-thinking TBL club. Turkish news outlet Milliyet stated that Durant’s agent Aaron Goodwin met with Beşiktaş president Yildrim Demirören and GM Şeref [...]
Kevin Durant’s performance created an evening for the ages at Rucker Park. “Some nights are very special,” DC Power guard Randy (White Chocolate) Gill said. “This is going down as one of those special nights.” The Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star shook off a slow start and poured in an astounding 66 points to lead DC Power to a 99-93 win [...]
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