Althought I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: My favorite day of the year is the day of the NBA Draft. From sleepers to busts, four-year college guys to international players that may never come over (where are you Fran Vasquez), team’s fortunes are changed at the NBA Draft each year. Read More »

We’re dropping our next NBA Mock Draft tomorrow morning (check out our last one HERE), but we wanted to give you something to hold you over in the meantime.

Enter BleacherReport.com and their NBA Mock Draft: Hot Girls Edition. Read More »

With the NBA Draft one week away, check out this great video of Gary Payton preparing draft prospect Terrence Williams for the NBA. Not a bad mentor if you ask me.

In honor of the Lakers winning the chip, our boys over at Mitchell & Ness sent us these Lakers fitteds in 7 3/8. If you want to get your hands on these, you have to answer the following: Read More »

Armchair scientists across the nation have a theory about preps-to-pro’s players’ bodies breaking down at an earlier age than someone who takes a more traditional route to the League. The logic makes sense – you demand too much from your body before it’s fully mature, and that results in damage to the knees, ankles and hips somewhere down the line.

But the Lakers don’t think that applies to the world’s best conditioned athlete. Read More »

You know how it goes when comparing one basketball player to another: Before too long, somebody plays the “What if” game, i.e. “What if Player X was on Player Y’s team,” or vice versa.

But when we pitted Amar’e Stoudemire and Al Jefferson against each other in Dime’s “Who’s Better?” series a few months ago, the “What if” thing didn’t really apply. Read More »

Conan‘s impression of Kobe maintaining his maniacal facial expression while eating ice cream and watching Spongebob is classic…

As championship parades go, the Lakers managed to throw a pretty good party yesterday. Although the whole privately-funded element and Derek Fisher‘s anti-Fun Police PSA threatened to put a damper on things, you have to give the L.A. fans credit for showing up in droves and being on their (nearly) best behavior, and credit to whoever paid for the parade for putting on a good event … Check out this snarky-ass line from the Associated Press story on the parade: “Taking a time-out from work or unemployment, 95,000 people filled the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to give a hero’s welcome to players and coaches.” So Adam Morrison was there after all Read More »

It’s a day of statements. The rowdy emcee on the mic at the LA Coliseum anointed Phil Jackson the undisputed greatest coach of all time, while Phil wore that stupid “X” hat that looked like something that you’d make at a kiosk in the mall.

And now Dwyane Wade is making a statement of his own: Kobe Bryant is the best basketball player in the game today. Read More »

Apparently Stephen Jackson is a monster in the weight room. He told a radio station today that he has already put on 25 pounds of muscle this offseason. Read More »