Archive for February, 2007

Hoopla / Feb 28, 2007 / 9:10 pm

3-on-3, Vegas style

Philly squad “Operation: Get Yours”
While we were in Las Vegas over All-Star Weekend a couple weeks ago, we told you about the national championship round of the Burger King Kings of the Courts 3-on-3 Tournament, where Birmingham-via-Philly squad “Hard 2 Guard” battled through some of the country’s best streetballers and won the $20,000 chip. Today […]

General / Feb 28, 2007 / 9:02 pm

Ask Ron-Ron

A couple months ago we told you that Dime was bringing Ron Artest into the fam as our advice columnist. The first edition of “Ask Ron” is running in Issue #31 (the LeBron cover) which you can find on newsstands now. But for our Dimemag.com readers, we’re running those questions and Ron-Ron’s answers right here. […]

Styles - Kicks and Gear / Feb 28, 2007 / 4:24 pm

The Goods

Yesterday, those ‘Sheed AF 25s showed up at the office. This afternoon, our friends at Converse hooked up each member of the Dime Crew with a duffle bag full of D-Wade loot. Each bag was full of t-shirts, hoodies and Wade 2.0 kicks …

Fantasy Doctor / Feb 28, 2007 / 11:01 am

Daily Fantasy

The Knicks - Jamal Crawford is out for the season. How big a loss is this for you? Significant. Crawford wasn’t shooting a great percentage, but he was hitting almost 2 threes per game, scoring almost 18, and dishing 4.5 dimes. That’s a lot of stats to lose for the rest of the way. The […]

Smack / Feb 28, 2007 / 2:18 am

King Crowning

In our latest NBA Hit List, which we posted Tuesday morning, we said this about the Pacers: “Since Jan. 30, the Pacers have won three straight, lost three, won three, and currently are on a two-game skid. If that pattern holds, Indy will lose to Phoenix on Tuesday (its third loss in a row), then […]

Styles - Kicks and Gear / Feb 27, 2007 / 12:27 pm

The Need For ‘Sheed

Not to be confused with one of the better Hoops blogs out there, need4sheed.com, today we had a run in with Mr. Wallace at the Dime office. Now, interesting things show up every day at the Dime office. The latest? Today’s delivery of the Nike Air Force 25 Six-Pack Rasheed Wallace edition kicks. Click to […]

Fantasy Doctor / Feb 27, 2007 / 9:59 am

Daily Fantasy

Nene - First off the NY Post had Nene’s name listed as “Hilario” in the official boxscore this morning. That’s not cool. Our man dropped that. Second of all, Nene is balling. The Nuggets are finding out that he and Camby can play together at the same time and now Nene is flourishing. Last night […]

Smack / Feb 27, 2007 / 1:46 am

Not Now, Toronto

Shaun Livingston’s hard-knock NBA life took another sad turn last night. Four minutes into Clippers/Bobcats, Shaun came down after a breakaway layup and had a Joe Theismann-type spill, his left knee literally looking like it snapped in half. He had to be carted off the floor in an air cast. Just a gross, cringe-inducing moment, […]

Hit List / Feb 27, 2007 / 1:01 am

NBA Hit List, 2.27.07

Does Miami stand a chance without this guy?
Unless there’s some kind of miracle brewing in South Beach, Dwyane Wade’s shoulder injury opens the door for a new Eastern Conference champ. It also sends the Miami Heat sliding down our latest NBA Hit List. Meanwhile, last year’s Western Conference champs look as invincible as ever, holding […]

Fantasy Doctor / Feb 26, 2007 / 10:14 am

Daily Fantasy

Anthony Johnson - We said that Anthony Johnson could become an immediate fantasy threat and last night he showed why. Playing 34 minutes, Johnson went 7-12, had 3 threes, 17 points, and 5 assists.
Mikki Moore- A big 19 points last night was a little overshadowed by another enormous 4 rebound performance. We […]

Smack / Feb 26, 2007 / 5:30 am

Best Performance by a Villain

McGrady stuck it to Orlando again…
In the interest of keeping it interesting, props to Ben Wallace for playing the villain yesterday. In his first game back in Detroit playing with the Bulls, Big Ben got a boo/cheer combo during introductions, then during the game was getting mostly booed whenever he had the ball. So Ben […]

Smack / Feb 25, 2007 / 4:49 am

Tough Question

A.I. wasn’t winning in Philly, either…
So last night we’re in the middle of a Dime-crew-and-friends poker tourney, and someone innocently asks, “Why aren’t the Nuggets winning with Carmelo and A.I.?” After watching Denver get pieced by the Mavs on Saturday, you could point to defense and not taking care of the ball as two of […]

General / Feb 24, 2007 / 7:47 pm

StreetGodz

We hit up the first ever StreetGodz freestyle battle today at Gypsy Tea in NYC. Not only were we invited, but we were also asked to judge the competition. The StreetGodz movement is basically a freestyle battle (think Nike Freestyle commercial) where competitors show off their illest ball tricks to music. Eight […]

Fantasy Doctor / Feb 24, 2007 / 8:15 am

Daily Fantasy

Steven Hunter - He’s a must pick up as a center right now for anyone who needs a second big man. He’s back and going to play 30 minutes a night. We’d expect his production to be better than Mikki Moore.
Steve Blake - So much for our proffessed love of Blakes assists. He had […]

Smack / Feb 24, 2007 / 4:55 am

Call it a night

Kobe turned in early on Friday.
The Jazz are trying to hold it together. Last night they got Carlos Boozer (10 pts) and Deron Williams (28 pts, 14 asts) back in the lineup, but were without Mehmet Okur (back) and lost Andrei Kirilenko (knee) during their win over the Nuggets. “It seems like everybody’s in their […]

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