It doesn’t take an NBA reporting sleuth to tell you Carlos Boozer most likely won’t start — and definitely won’t finish — this upcoming season with the Utah Jazz.

So when Booz spoke to a Chicago radio station earlier today, he wasn’t breaking any news by saying a trade is coming soon. From the Deseret News in Utah: Read More »

From the same hometown as Nike, up-and-coming clothing company Pennant Race continues to impress each new season they drop. Mostly a baseball-inspired line, when PR delves into the world of basketball, their drops have been more than solid. Read More »

I’m doing my best to avoid living in the past, and I still don’t understand why Allen Iverson is sifting through role-player money offers from Lottery teams who all want him to come off the bench. One of the best guards in the League (still) is floundering on the free agent market — a player who just one season ago averaged 26 points, seven assists and two steals a night on a playoff team — and he’s being treated like Jannero Pargo.

To answer the question posed in this morning’s Smack, I think A.I. is the victim of an undeserved bad reputation that festered over time and is finally catching up with him. Read More »

It wasn’t always this way, but unfortunately nowadays, Antoine Walker is at the butt end of NBA jokes. His latest shake-your-head moment – being in a gambling debt of $822,500 to three Las Vegas casinos which has the Chief Deputy District Attorney asking a Las Vegas justice of the peace for an arrest warrant for ’Toine. Read More »

While we’ve spent the past two hours in the office debating the Hall of Fame merits of Ben Wallace, the facts are clear: After the Suns completed a $10 million buyout for a contract that would have paid Wallace $14 million this season, he became available (for cheap) to help your team win a ring in 2010. Read More »

With the 2K Sports Preseason All-American Team playing Canada, you may wonder why Toronto natives and Findlay Prep’s finest Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph were playing with the Americans. While you can read about that HERE, watch the team make an appearance at a local electronics store, discuss French food and gets their first victory against the Canadians. Check them out and more in Episode 5 of the 2K Sports Preseason All-American Team vs. The World.

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You read about his 27-point, 12-board performance. Sure he’s dominating the same competition as last year at OU, but notice that he’s doing it from different spots on the floor. Instead of simply overpowering everyone on the block, Blake shows some handle and works beautifully facing the basket.

After testing the free agent waters like a college player trying to assess his draft stock, it appears Josh Childress is happier making euros than dollars. The restricted free agent and former Hawks swingman said this morning he is returning to Olympiakos for the 2009-10 season, not opting out of his contract and trying to return to the NBA. Read More »

While guys are trying to make a name for themselves in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, the NBA’s next group of stars was busy ballin’ in New Zealand. In honor of Team USA’s U19 Gold Medal victory in the FIBA World Championships this past weekend, here are five players from the team who will become household names during the 2009-10 NCAA season. Read More »

Just after inking their 3.5 ppg, 4.6 rpg backup center to a $34 million extension, the Magic had to wake up to the following headline this morning: “Gortat disappointed about return to Magic.”

Marcin Gortat’s agent Guy Zucker is talking like he’s representing a perennial All-Star. Dude, take your money, help your team try to get back to the Finals, and shut up. I thought Eastern European big men were supposed to be tough guys, not divas. Read More »