At his introductory press conference, Eddie Jordan gave the usual obligatory remarks about how his team has a really bright future, he’s going to lead them to a championship, blah, blah, blah. Somewhere during that diatribe when he was talking about taking them to the next level, he said this: “This team has a good core group, has future stars in the waiting, they’ve had playoff experience for two years. Now it’s time to go uptown.”
Nothing says “I’m not cool” like trying to throw around random urban words without any connection to what you’re saying.
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Back in high school, Leroy Smith beat out Michael Jordan for the last spot on their varsity basketball team. Sure that one moment inspired MJ to become the Greatest of All Time, but more importantly, it helped Leroy realize his incredible motivizing potential. Read More »
After watching just how great a job the NBA officials have been doing this post-season, the NCAA bureaucrats are on the verge of installing the League’s no-charge zone underneath the basket, but doing so without actually having the semi-circle drawn on the floor. If that call wasn’t tough enough already, college refs would have to magically eye whether the player taking the charge was inside or outside of the imaginary circle. Best of all, the geniuses behind this idea believe that it’s somehow going to curtail flopping.
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While Dwight Howard takes a couple days to bask in the warm glowing warming glow of his first NBA Finals appearance — all before getting to the task of whipping himself into “Kill Bynum” mode — we still can’t get away from the LeBron talk. Even though it’s been standard fare for guys like Rasheed Wallace to get fined for skipping mandatory postseason press conferences, the League said they won’t fine LeBron for skipping his interviews after the Cavs were eliminated in Orlando. The reason? Read More »
I watch a lot of TV. No need to bother counting the hours; just know that when I’m working from home the TV is on pretty much all day, I usually watch basketball games at night, and I usually need the soft light of a nearly-mute TV to go to sleep. And that’s not to mention the “couples” shows I watch with my fiancee, who can be a TV beast in her own right.
That said, at any time of the year, there are a good 4-5 shows that I’d call “my favorite show.” And after this weekend, I’m moving “Deadliest Warrior” to the top of the list. Read More »
When most kids show up at college, they come armed with plenty of stuff to put on their dorm room walls. I remember my freshman building at Boston College being littered with Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Biggie, and Tupac posters. Me? I had two things for my side of the room: a Chris Mullin Team USA poster and a photo of Chris Herren cut out from some hoop magazine that I can’t recall today. Not exactly what most kids were plastering on their walls, but Mullin was my basketball idol and Herren, the star of an unbelievable book called “Fall River Dreams” that I pretty carried with me at all times, was a living legend in the Northeast.
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Can you imagine how Dwight Howard felt watching the LeBron and Kobe commercials on TV? If the media (or Nike) had their way, there would have been no Eastern or Western Conference finals. LeBron and Kobe were destined to meet in the Championship. To have four of the biggest names in the NBA competing on the grand stage of greatness, and to exclude two of them from the start, was total disrespect. Dwight Howard made it his business to put a stop to what people were already claiming to be “one of the best NBA Finals ever.” Read More »
As time progresses, NBA mock drafts are beginning to look more and more like the Top 30 Prospect ranking in Dime #49. The change can be attributed to the NBA Draft Combine measurements, which has propelled James Harden, Tyreke Evans and Earl Clark up the draft board.
1. L.A. Clippers — Blake Griffin, PF, Oklahoma
Keep the future All-Star, or trade him for a package that may include a future All-Star or two? Read More »
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