If anyone tuned in to ESPNEWS yesterday for LeBron‘s MVP press conference, you can see that winning this award was a huge deal for King James. Now the NBA Store is letting you share in the moment. Read More »

Welcome to our first ever NBA Playoff Blogger Faceoff, where we pit our favorite team-related writers against each other to let them tell why the teams they represent will win their first round matchups. We gave them no set format, no style guide – we just told them to do their thing. Check it out and join in the debate in the comments section.

Next up: 1. Cleveland vs. 4. Atlanta Read More »

Forget all the excuses. It didn’t matter that Kobe had flu-like symptoms, that Phil only played Andrew Bynum for 15 minutes, or that L.A. shot way too many three’s. There was another reason that Houston took Game 1: by my count, the the last two times that Ron Artest let his barber go berserk before playing against the Lakers, he’s been an efficient machine, propelling his squad to victory. Read More »

Wow. Good morning, Megan. This is pretty much exactly how we imagine the day going.

There were stretches of last night’s Orlando-Boston matchup when both teams were sloppily turning the ball over and missing so many shots that the game could have been mistaken for Game 7 of the Hawks-Heat series. (Well maybe it wasn’t that bad.) But as the Celtics fell behind by 28 points in the third quarter, it was apparent that they weren’t playing anywhere near the same level that they did against Chicago. Read More »

Everybody who had the Lakers coasting to the Finals and playing the winner of Cavs/Celtics has something to think about now. Yesterday we saw both underdog road teams, Orlando over Boston and Houston over L.A., take homecourt for the time being with a pair of well-executed W’s … You figured Boston would have trouble early on after their grueling first-round series, and the Magic took advantage. Read More »

J.J. Redick hears so much trash from fans every time he visits a new arena, he’s asking fans to try to bring something new, something better than the usual tonight at TD Banknorth Garden. Read More »

Through the first round of the NBA playoffs, which 30 players stood out above the rest?

30. Kendrick Perkins / Big Baby Davis Baby’s interior scoring and surprisingly clutch mid-range jumper plus Perk’s defense and rebounding were equally valuable to the Celts in overcoming the absence of KG and Leon Powe. Perkins averaged 13.3 points, 11.6 boards and 3.0 blocks against Chicago, while Davis put up 18.1 points and 6.7 boards. Baby is a free agent this summer; he might have just earned himself a starting job with another team. Read More »

Welcome to our first ever NBA Playoff Blogger Faceoff, where we pit our favorite team-related writers against each other to let them tell why the teams they represent will win their first round matchups. We gave them no set format, no style guide – we just told them to do their thing. Check it out and join in the debate in the comments section.

Next up: 1. Lakers vs. 5. Rockets Read More »

Today, reports were confirmed that LeBron James is this year’s NBA MVP. Tomorrow, ‘Bron will accept the trophy in front of the Cleveland crowd before his second-round series with Atlanta gets underway. Back in February we put LeBron on the cover of Dime #47, as he was in the middle of his career year. Here’s the reprint of that feature:

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Where did the game go?

Sometime between when Mike could still fly, when Isiah could still finish, when Magic could still seek and Larry could still destroy — sometime between then and when they stepped aside for Kobe, Chris, Dwyane and Dirk — the game escaped us. Read More »