Beast of the Night: LeBron James notched 36 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals and 5 turnovers last night. He managed to hit 4 threes, shoot 60 percent (12-20) from the floor and 67 percent (8-12) from the free throw line. He’s turning the ball over 3.6 times per game so far this season, but his owners aren’t complaining. Read More »

During last night’s TNT doubleheader, it was announced that DeMar DeRozan and Eric Gordon will compete in the All-Star Weekend “dunk-in” at halftime of the rookie/sophomore game, winner getting the fourth spot in the Dunk Contest the following night.

I caught the tail-end of the TNT studio crew’s discussion on dream dunk-in matchups, and wouldn’t you know, every scenario involved LeBron. Read More »

At 1:30 a.m. last night, I was woken up by a text message sent by our intern Kash. The message read, “Yadda just made himself another 10 day.” By “Yadda” he was talking about Queens native Sundiata Gaines. Originally, I thought he meant, it was announced the Jazz re-signed Gaines to another 10-day contract and went back to sleep. But when I turned on SportsCenter this morning, I figured out what Kash was talking about. Gaines, who was recently called up by the Jazz from the D-League, knocked down this amazing buzzer beater to defeat LeBron James and the Cavs last night. Read More »

When it comes down to analyzing past NBA Drafts, it’s easy to look back in hindsight and say who should have been picked earlier. The draft is pretty much a crapshoot and you never know what you’re getting until they’re in that uniform and actually out on the court getting burn. The list of second round players who GMs dropped the ball with is endless: Manu Ginobili, Monta Ellis, Carlos Boozer, Michael Redd, Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas. Read More »

Every good sports-movie plot twist came together at the right time to make Sundiata Gaines‘ game-winner on the Cavs last night feel like the Jazz had won an NBA championship and exorcised the Jordan-on-Russell demon all at once, not to mention getting a couple hundred starving screenwriters to crack open the laptop to get started on the Hollywood script. (Fredro Starr could play ‘Yatta. He’s got the NYC swagger and experience from Sunset Park, but him being 5-foot-2 might be an issue. To compensate, you’d have to get Don Cheadle to play LeBron and break out the 8-foot rims.) … With five seconds left, Utah was down two and missing Deron Williams, who’d re-injured his right wrist earlier in the fourth, plus Carlos Boozer, who’d fouled out. Read More »

Gilbert Arenas has officially been charged with felony gun possession according to the Washington Post. The charge was filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the district. Arenas is charged with carrying a gun without a permit outside of his home or business. Last week, Arenas was suspended indefinitely by the NBA for that gun-toting incident which occurred on Dec. 21. Read More »

My sister is an “American Idol” die-hard. For the most part, I’ll watch it during the auditions phase before inevitably falling off after they pick the final crew to go to Hollywood. Because only in the auditions will you get guys like Antonio Wheeler, a.k.a. “Skii Bo Ski,” who was on the Atlanta show yesterday. Somehow this dude said, “I’m like the Dollar Store,” and made it sound cool.

The 2009-10 season is just about at it’s midway point. These two-and-a-half months have been filled with a whole lot of surprises. Who would have thought Gilbert Arenas would be suspended for the season or Blake Griffin and Greg Oden would suffer season-ending injuries? And who would have thought Allen Iverson would be back in Philly or the Nets would be so bad (Okay, well that one wasn’t so far fetched). Read More »

Baron Davis schooling helpless New York City pedestrians? Classic. The fact it’s over a J Dilla track (from Dilla’s latest album, Jay $tay Paid, in which our boy DJ Reason A&R’d with Pete Rock) and has cameos from Common, DJ Clue, Jim Jones, and Irv Gotti (plus his Bentley) make it that much cooler.

On NBA TV last night, the studio crew was talking about Blake Griffin‘s season-ending knee surgery and its long-term effects (if any) on the 2011 Rookie of the Year candidate’s career.

After Eric Snow mentioned that Randy Foye came back from a similar injury to regain his college form, Kenny Smith admitted that he doesn’t pay enough attention to Foye — who spent the first three years of his career in Minnesota before going to Washington — to speak on the topic. Read More »