Yesterday we posted our first NBA Fantasy Finals matchup, pitting the ’95 Magic (Shaq and Penny) against the ’08 Lakers (Kobe and Kobe).

In case you missed it the first time, this has nothing to do with the stat-driven “fantasy basketball” you play online. We’re taking NBA Finals teams throughout history and pitting them against each other to see what you think would happen. Read More »

There was some debate in these pages as to who would end up as the best pro – Blake Griffin or Ricky Rubio. But everyone would agree that the Clippers would be idiots if they went for the Spanish PG instead of pairing Blake Griffin with Baron Davis, Eric Gordon and Co. Instead of adding to the legacy of taking Michael Olowakandi, Yaroslav Korolev, and Chris Wilcox in the lottery, Mike Dunleavy said that they could lock the pick in right now – they’re 100% going with Griffin. Read More »

Carmelo was smooth as butter, but Kobe was the hot knife that ruined what should have been a Denver win last night in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals … With Carmelo getting savage buckets early and often, the Nuggets looked like they were gonna walk into Staples and blow the Lakers out. By the time L.A. hit 14 on the scoreboard in the first quarter, ‘Melo already had 14 by himself. The jump shot was flowing like liquor on the “Rock of Love” bus, and nobody could stop him. Read More »

What an evening! So it looks like all that Ricky Rubio to the Knicks talk can go to rest and we can just focus on Stephen Curry instead. So I arrived over at MSG and the place was packed. You could tell that Knicks fans are ready to start adding some pieces to their puzzle. Read More »

Are we going deaf, or did Kevin Love actually say, “My passion bucket is running high” when he appeared on camera at the NBA Draft Lottery? Whatever K-Love was depending on to get his squad the top pick, it didn’t work: The Clippers were tonight’s big winner, snagging the No. 1 spot, followed by Memphis and Oklahoma City. Now that we know the order, here’s our first official 2009 mock draft: Read More »

While some of the Dime crew is going to be in Secaucus actually watching the ping pong balls drop, I’m heading over to Madison Square Garden to hang with some rabid Knicks fans and see what’s going on as they hope for a repeat of 1985. 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.

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Emotions run high at the NBA Draft. It makes sense. These kids dream about shaking hands with Commissioner Stern for their entire lives. When they hear their name called, it’s like a lifetime’s worth of work has finally come to fruition. The NBA Draft Lottery is an entirely different animal – there are no young dreamers waiting to walk on stage, no highlight tapes of unbelievable dunks, no families in a green room waiting for phone calls. But there is still emotion – and lots of it. Read More »

No sports lends itself to the “If” game more than basketball. Because so much of one man’s success depends on his teammates, because different eras are so hard to compare, and because none of us really knows as much as we think we do, basketball arguments almost always break down into a series of “If this” (If Kobe was on the Cavs…) and “If that” (If Stockton didn’t have Mailman…) and “What if?” (What if Mike hadn’t retired?) Read More »

**UPDATE: HEAD TO HIGHSCHOOLHOOP.COM FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JOHN WALL ABOUT WHY HE CHOSE KENTUCKY**

Re-rank the college Top 25 right now. John Wall has single-handedly altered the landscape today, committing to John Calipari‘s Kentucky Wildcats. Though his camp was supposedly divided, the last we heard was that both John and his mother were leaning towards UK. With his commitment, Kentucky has the single greatest recruiting class in about 20 years – perhaps ever. Read More »