It’s been long known that Carlos Boozer has had a strong interest in playing in South Florida with the Miami Heat. But according to an article on Fanhouse.com yesterday, Boozer wouldn’t mind playing in Central Florida as well. Besides the team being a championship contender and located in a sunny climate, Carlos also has a good friendship with the team’s franchise player Dwight Howard. It was reported that Boozer spent most of his day off on Sunday hanging with Superman. Read More »

Ranking the NBA from worst to first…

30. New Jersey Nets (2-26) Last week: Lost at Cleveland; lost to Utah; lost at Toronto; lost to L.A. Lakers. This is not good for Rafer Alston. He’s 33 years old, shooting 34 percent from the field, and becoming a forgotten man in a contract year. And playing with this team, Skip is liable to age another four years before July 1.

29. Golden State Warriors (7-19) Last week: Lost at Philadelphia; lost to San Antonio; lost to Washington. Steph Curry and Anthony Randolph are like the young stripper in a gold-digging marriage with the dirty geezer. Just keep your eyes on the prize, do what the old man says, and soon enough, the keys to the mansion will be yours. Read More »

Back in 1994, the ill-conceived (in hindsight) album B-Ball’s Best Kept Secret gave us “What The Kidd Did,” with Jason Kidd on the mic with Money B. J-Kidd’s best line: “But it ain’t no party if I can’t get it started, with all the player haters on my jock!”

(Brownie points if you can ID the Rappin’ Chihuahua reference…)

The Windy City has seen better days as of late. This season, the Bulls have been embarrassed by Toronto 78-110 at home, lost to the previously one-win New Jersey Nets and went 1-5 on a vicious road trip to close out November. But what happened last night in the United Center has to make Bulls’ fans cringe with disappointment. Read More »

Beast of the Night: Andrew Bogut had his best game of the season so far, putting up 31 points, 18 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks against the Pacers. He shot 74 percent (14-19) from the field, 43 percent (3-7) from the line and had 3 turnovers. Bogut has been a fantasy gem so far this season, save for his abysmal free-throw shooting (54 percent). Read More »

Every year, there are players on some of the league’s most atrocious teams that are throwing up some monster numbers. Before he was rescued by the Hawks, it was Jamal Crawford. Before him, it was Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Since nobody will vote them into the real All-Star game, we decided to give some shine to some of this season’s best, second-tier players. Read More »

Some things are just predictable, and you can’t even fault anybody for being predictable about it. For example, at the end of a calendar year, magazines and TV shows and websites all roll out their “Best of the Year” lists, rankings and recaps. And at the end of a decade, you inevitably see the same thing on a bigger scale.

So while everybody is getting in their “Best [NBA-related thing] of the Decade” lists for the period covering 2000-2009, let’s switch it up a bit:

Who will be the best player of the NEXT decade? Read More »

In all honesty, we’ll be surprised if Vinny Del Negro still has a job by the time the Dime crew makes it up to Madison Square Garden tonight for Knicks vs. Bulls. Just when you thought the Bulls were getting their act together and had put together some well-played games, they went out on Monday and — whatever you want to call it — did something that deserves a new word other than “collapse.” If it doesn’t ultimately cost Del Negro his job, it at least has the hot seat burning a hole in his drawers. (And remember, this is the same organization that fired Scott Skiles on Christmas Eve a couple years back. Don’t think Del Negro can use the holidays as a stay of execution.) … Here’s the scene: Coming off an impressive win over the Hawks, the Bulls were up THIRTY-FIVE on Sacramento, at home, midway through the third quarter. The announcers were running out of ways to call it an ass-whoopin’. Read More »

One of the main storylines of this young NBA season is the battle for 2010 Rookie of the Year between Brandon Jennings and Tyreke Evans. If these two rooks avoid the rookie wall and maintain their current production (Evans 20 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 5.1 apg and Jennings 20.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 6.2 apg) we will use their rookie season as a measuring stick for incoming rookies for the next decade.

When looking at the past decade, I wondered which player’s Rookie season stood out the most, which rookie could be considered the rookie of the decade? Below is my ’00s All Rookie Team. Read More »

We argue. You decide.

AARON BROOKS (by Jack Jensen) How many people do you think were ready to throw in the towel after the Rockets traded away Rafer Alston last February in favor of their second-year point guard out of Oregon? I’m guessing more people than care to admit it jumped off the bandwagon and thought Aaron Brooks wasn’t ready to lead Houston anywhere. He’s too small, too inexperienced and not ready for what’s expected of a starter. Read More »