In 2002, the first issue of Dime, we ranked who we felt were the 25 most powerful people in the game of basketball. At the time, only six of the names on that list were actual basketball players. The rest was made up of agents, TV executives, attorneys, bigwigs in the NBA office, team owners, and other “suits” — the people we assumed would shape the future of the magazine. Today, we’re proud to say that our Dime #50 version of the power list has a much larger percentage of players. Dime has always been about putting ballplayers first, and over the last seven years, the player has become more powerful in the business and industry of basketball. Read More »
Shaquille O’Neal has been in Washington D.C. for the last few days which is concluding with his hosting of WWE’s Monday Night Raw taping live tonight. He is making his trip to the nation’s capital an interesting one, as he proposed this hypothetical situation to a D.C. sports radio station: Read More »
The Oklahoma City Thunder have reportedly acquired Etan Thomas and what amounts to two second round picks in exchange Damien Wilkins and Chucky Atkins.
It’s kind of crazy to think about it, but the Thunder now seem to have serious depth all over the place. Along the front line alone, they now add Thomas (a serviceable big) to a mix that already includes Read More »
One of my favorite sites, The700Level.com, points out that on this day back in 1992, in the midst of a demoralizing 38-7 (the Dream Team had reeled off 31 unanswered points at the time) destruction of the Angolan National Team, Charles Barkley decided to crack one of their players with an elbow after rampaging to an easy transition bucket. The incident happens at 3:17 of the video, but it’s worth wathing the whole thing to watch young(er) MJ, Magic, Larry Legend and Co. doing their thing…
Sir Charles’ reasoning for the ‘bow from The700Level: Read More »
I’m sure all Los Angeles club promoters would love to have Ron Artest make an appearance at their club, but would never let him perform any music on their stages. So instead, Artest brought his music overseas to China and must feel that his swag is at an all-time high because the fans in China seem to be loving his performance. Does it even matter that they most likely don’t understand what Ron-Ron is even rapping about?
We’re at the point now where any story you told us about Ron Artest, no matter how WTF? it is, we’d probably just laugh and be like, “OK.”
The latest? Bill Simmons‘ column today drops this story, and might be right at the top of the most bizarre Ron-Ron antics we’ve heard about or seen for ourselves:
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