Dime reader Michael told us about this as soon as it happened during last night’s game, so we had to find a video. If you take your eyes off the girl in the blue with the impressive rack, you can see the other girl in the blue have a “Wanna Get Away?” moment.

About an hour before the Lakers and Magic tipped off Game 4, Dime reader “SparkyJ23″ wrote us: “The Lakers have to win tonight or it all goes tits up for ‘em.” Not quite sure what that means, but by the end of last night’s overtime nail-biter, Derek Fisher made sure everybody’s tits were where they should be. And when Orlando looks back at the 99-91 loss, there are a handful of sequences that will bug them all summer long. Read More »

The House of Hoops store in Harlem is no stranger to exclusive kicks. Time after time they bring the heat with impossible to find Player Exclusives and once again they don’t disappoint. Releasing tomorrow only at House of Hoops is a pair of Air Jordan Schoolin’ in a special Ray Allen make up. This Team Jordan model comes in a Celtics white/green colorway with white leather uppers and green accents on the lining, midsole and outsole. The midsole is textured with a reptile like pattern. The sickest part has to be the tongue which has “Sweet Ray” stitched across it.

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At different points in their careers, both Alonzo Mourning and Shane Battier have gotten bowled over by Kobe and the Lakers. But they’ve also had some success against one of the game’s greatest scorers. We caught up with the two elite defenders during a conference call for the American Century Celebrity Golf Tourney. Shane might not be on Alonzo’s level, but if you believe the Michael Lewis’ of the world, he’s well on his way to carving his own niche as one of the NBA’s best perimeter defenders. We talked with these two defensive specialists about what the Magic need to do to even the series up at 2-2 tonight… Read More »

For everybody who figured former NBA ref Tim Donaghy would be serving his 15-month sentence for gambling crimes in one of those “Club Fed” kind of joints, apparently you were wrong. The L.A. Daily News reported today that Donaghy ran into some trouble in the pen a few months ago, getting attacked by a fellow inmate at one point. From ESPN.com: Read More »

As a lifelong New Yorker and an almost-my-entire-lifelong hip-hop fan, I basically grew watching as various crews had their turn atop the lucrative New York hip-hop throne. From Wu-Tang to Mobb Deep to the Roc and eventually to Dip Set and G-Unit, the list of rappers who have dominated hip-hop from the New York area is long and diverse. Read More »

If the Finals appearance didn’t qualify as the official announcement that Dwight Howard has arrived, then this will do. Once the cheesy kid who donned the cover of NBA Ballers: The Chosen One, Dwight is now on one of the two biggest video game covers in the world…

In the age of versatility, how much is an old-fashioned pure scorer worth?

That’s the question NBA teams will have to ask themselves when Wayne Ellington‘s name pops up in the war room. The North Carolina junior would have been a Top-10 pick back in the days of Trajan Langdon (11th in ’99), Jamal Crawford (8th in ’00) and Dajuan Wagner (6th in ’02), but in 2009, teams want their starting two-guard to be able to do everything: Read More »

As we asked in Smack on Tuesday, does anyone in the League make more “bad” shots than Hedo Turkoglu?

I guess it depends on how you define a “bad” shot. It’s not what Dwyane Wade does when he flies to the cup, hears a whistle and flips something in off the glass over his head. That’s an impossible shot. A “bad” shot is an off-balance jumper that makes a coach instinctively writhe in his seat to one side waiting to see if it’ll drop. Read More »

Steve Nash is covering the NBA Finals for David Letterman and was on last night. Good stuff, especially when he asks Jeff Van Gundy if his brother ever got laid in high school …