It’s only natural that point guards eventually go into coaching. Just like catchers in baseball or quarterbacks in football, PG’s are expected to know everything that’s happening on the court during a basketball game: Time, score, who’s hot, who’s hurt, who’s needs the ball soon before they mentally check out.
Look around the upper echelon of college basketball and you’ll see it. Coach K, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan and Tubby Smith are among the active coaches with national championships who ran point for their teams in college. Read More »
Considering I just watched College Football Live run another tired “Could LeBron play big-time football?” feature for the 413th time in ESPN history, it’s safe to say the sports world is hurting for creativity right now.
So I’ve got no problem with the borderline cheesy idea coming out of Miami, where the Heat have launched We Want Wade (www.wewantwade.com), a website aimed at keeping Dwyane Wade from leaving the only professional home he’s ever known. Read More »
That’s right people, Velvet Hoop is going to be in the 2011 NBA Dunk Contest. Yesterday on his Ustream channel, KD announced that he’s in for next year’s contest after being too nervous this year. Without a doubt, the NBA needs a guy like Durant to save the contest, so expect to see him competing next February in L.A.
UPDATE:KD just tweeted, “MAN I WAS JOKING IM NOT GON B IN THE DUNK CONTEST” (Maybe he’s having second thoughts…)
In less than a season, Raylan Givens is rocketing up the Austin’s Favorite TV Cops power ranking — threatening Frank Pembleton (“Homicide”), J.C. Williams and Eddie Torres (“New York Undercover”), Rick Hunter (“Hunter”) and the entire cast of “In The Heat Of The Night” — the same way Kevin Durant crashed the NBA’s elite party.
In a recent episode of “Justified” (Tuesdays on FX), Givens had gotten his ass kicked in a barroom brawl, and while his ex-wife is nursing him back to health, they have this exchange: Read More »
If you’ve ever been to New York City, then you know hitting up the NBA Store on 5th Avenue is as big a destination as visiting the Empire State Building. So if you’ve already made the trip, what’s next? How about the NBA Store in Shanghai. The NBA announced today the opening of a new NBA Store inside the Shanghai World Expo, the largest World’s Fair site ever at over two square miles. And with a record 70 million visitors expected to visit the Expo this year during the six-month celebration, you know they’ll be selling quite a few Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian jerseys. Read More »
This clip demonstrates two things: 1) How good young T-Mac used to be; and 2) That you don’t try and dunk on Scottie Pippen. Especially with MJ right there.
After two years at the University of Virginia, Sylven Landesberg knew it was time. As a former McDonald’s All-American, the debate was not if, but rather when, the 6-6, 207-pound shooting guard from Queens, N.Y. would enter the League. And after a stellar sophomore season in which he averaged 17.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists for the Cavaliers, it appears the time is now. Read More »
What’s crazy to me is that our faithful DimeMag.com readers don’t seem to know the Dime crew at all. So let’s first start by putting this whole LeBron/Kobe love fest debate to bed. We don’t jock one guy more than another, and the main reasons why we write about them so much on the site is because A) They’re the two best players in the League; and B) Both of their teams are battling for an NBA Championship. Well, the Celtics actually have different plans. While this morning Chantay Jordan wrote what Cleveland must do to win Game 6 tonight, here are three things that the Boston must do to close out the series at home. Read More »
Months after he was named district Newcomer of the Year and led Permian High School (Odessa, Texas) to the playoffs, 16-year-old basketball player Jerry Joseph was unveiled as 22-year-old Guerdwich Montimere and arrested for presenting false ID.
Montimere, a 6-5 shooting guard, had sold himself to the small West Texas town as a homeless Haitian orphan, and moved in with Permian coach Danny Wright. (Permian is the same school that inspired the original Friday Night Lights book.) As it turns out, Montimere is really a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who graduated from Dillard High (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) in 2007. His true identity surfaced following accusations by his former coaches at Dillard, who spotted Montimere at an AAU tournament in Arkansas last month. He was released from jail after posting $500 bail Wednesday.
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