Photo. Gary Land
“Is it done?”
“Is it official?”
That was all you heard around the Dime office yesterday — not to mention all the calls and e-mails we got asking the same questions — and you know what “it” is: the Kevin Garnett-to-Boston trade. Over the weekend, word leaked that the Celtics and Timberwolves had resumed KG […]

Rashard Lewis‘ fat $100 million-plus contract had everyone asking the obvious question: Is he a max contract player? Another guy whose name will be linked to that question sometime soon is Al Jefferson. The Celtics have until October to ink Jefferson to an extension, or else he’ll become a free agent in ‘08. Yesterday’s Boston […]

Damn. First Antoine Walker, now Eddy Curry. New York’s NBC affiliate reported that Eddy’s suburban Chicago home was broken into yesterday morning in a home-invasion robbery, during which Curry and some other people in the home were tied up. It sounds an awful lot like what happened to ‘Toine earlier this summer — which also […]

We hit up the NBA rookie photo shoot at the Knicks’ practice facility in Tarrytown, N.Y., yesterday. Over 40 of the rookies were in the house, having their photos taken for everything from their first trading cards to their team’s media guides. Long day for these guys. Pretty much every draftee was there except the […]

As hyped as we were to watch Team USA’s intrasquad scrimmage last weekend, the next scrimmage might be even more intriguing. USA Basketball is apparently in the process of putting together a team of young guys to take on the senior team next month to help them prep for the Olympic qualifying tournament. Al Jefferson […]

Photo. David Deal
Last night the Dime crew was up at Rucker Park for something unprecedented and pretty cool: 2K Sports’ motion capture session for NBA 2K8 on the world famous playground court with Andre Iguodala, Gerald Wallace, Rudy Gay and 2K8 cover guy Chris Paul. Chris Bosh was also in the house, but he was […]

All eyes and ears were on David Stern yesterday as he publicly talked about the Tim Donaghy scandal (and it is undoubtedly a full-fledged “scandal” at this point) in a press conference that was like a national Presidential address for hoop fans. Right off the bat, the commish said we we have a “rogue, isolated […]