Yesterday, the Nets announced that after much prodding, Derrick Favors and DeMarcus Cousins will work out together on June 21st. Previously, the two players were scheduled for separate workouts because Favors’ representatives were worried about how Favors would fare against the size of Cousins. But according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, things have changed. Read More »

After missing a couple of dunks early, Anthony “Africa” Pimble set the tone for the rest of the summer at EBC at Rucker Park last night. Africa, later dubbed “Disrespectful” for his disregard of anyone in his path to the basket, threw down this insane two-handed 360 windmill as time was winding down. As you can imagine, the crowd went berserk. Look out for the recap of last night and videos of the legendary Larry “Bone Collector” Williams later today.

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“It’s a dream come true.”

Last week at the World Basketball Festival introduction, we got a sneak peek of a bunch of the new product coming out as well. But there was one piece that had people tweeting away more than the rest: the Nike Air Force 1 Foamposite. To satisfy the craving that’s persisted since the end of the twentieth century, Nike is bringing back the Foamposite and combining it with the Air Force 1 for an absolutely seamless new slice of basketball footwear. Read More »

If you are in the Philly area this Saturday, come by the House of Hoops in Cherry Hill if you want to meet reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Tyreke Evans. He’ll be doing a Q&A in the store, and we’ve heard there will be some special stuff going down. Read More »

Last week, we told you about this summer’s World Basketball Festival and showed you some stills of what the venues (Times Square, Rucker Park, Madison Square Garden) are going to look like. Now, check out an aerial tour of all three.

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Just eleven days ago, everyone in the basketball world was ready to anoint Pau Gasol as a different player than in 2008, the undisputed best big man in the game.

In Game 1 of these NBA Finals, the Spaniard embarrassed the Celtics’ frontline, especially Kevin Garnett, devouring them with 23 points and 14 rebounds. That Mufasa-like performance has slowly weakened with each passing game. In Game 5 on Sunday night, Gasol was no king of the jungle. He was more Nenad Krstic. Read More »

The Raptors and Thunder are two teams heading in starkly different directions. The Thunder were one of the feel good stories of the NBA this past season. They have one of the best young cores in the League, and a team chemistry that is not often seen. On the other hand, Toronto struggled this past season with chemistry issues, underachievement, and now faces the likely loss of star forward Chris Bosh. While these two teams are going in opposite directions, they can both help each other greatly. Read More »

How much of this summer’s NBA free agency drama is going to play out on Twitter? Chris Bosh (@chrisbosh) almost caused an international incident a couple weeks ago when he tweeted, “Should I stay or should I go?” Bosh then wrote another post — something like, “I should plan my vacation later next year” while he was watching a Lakers game — that created more rumors and speculation. Which brings us to yesterday, when Amar’e Stoudemire (@amareisreal) posted this: “Just touched down in my home state Florida. Miami what’s good?” Read More »

While most hip-hop fans are heavily anticipating Thank Me Later, the debut studio album from Young Money’s Canadian superstar Drake, the expectations couldn’t be higher. With that in mind, I wanted to examine five players that have tremendous expectations for their big stage debut. And one day, GMs, coaches and fans will be thanking them too. Read More »

I’m from New York, and I’m as sick of it as you are. I am not even sure that if Jesus was part of the 2010 free agent class he would get as much attention as LeBron (even though he’d still get a max-contract). Still, there are some pretty creative efforts going on around the country to bring LBJ to a city near you. First stop, New York. Read More »