With the beginning of every new NBA season, there are a few teams whom we consider to be favorites to win the championship. But as we all know, only one can be crowned NBA champions. And the teams that fall short go home forgotten and pretty much empty-handed.
Some people ask whether it’s worse to make it to the Finals and lose — to come so close to glory and not achieve your goal — or to get eliminated earlier on before the stakes get too high.
If you weren’t under a rock in the ’90s you know that Michael Jordan alone ruined the chances a lot of great players and teams to get a ring. Read More »
In the NBA’s offseason, coaches are just like fantasy owners: Tinkering with their roster at home like kids would arrange and re-arrange battalions of plastic Army toys, to the point where some already have a rotation in place by the time training camp begins.
Brand-new Golden State Warriors coach Keith Smart, for example, said he has his lineup in place less than a week into camp: Stephen Curry, Monta Ellis, Dorell Wright, David Lee and Andris Biedrins. Meanwhile, other coaches will use camp to let players compete for jobs. Read More »
While we may or may not have received our copies this morning, and may or may not be playing the game right now, I thought it’d only be fair to share with you the latest video 2K Sports released today. The extensive video showcases both new the gameplay and audio in NBA 2K11, so watch and listen to the enhanced broadcast commentary featuring over 10,000 new player and team-specific calls and arena-specific atmosphere and sounds.
With the college basketball season coming up in a little more than a month, we decided to catch up with Texas’ guard-forward Jordan Hamilton, who’s looking to have a breakout season this year. Hamilton was ranked as the eighth best high school player in the nation two years ago and took his game to Texas where he averaged 10.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game. The rising sophomore tells us about his game’s progression, along with a little bit about his past. Read More »
Now that you’ve seen the headphones, I figured you might want to check out the commercial as well. Watch as Dr. Dre teams up with LeBron James and comedian Affion Crockett in the new commercial for PowerBeats. Also, be sure to check out a behind the scenes video from shoot after the jump.
You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing the game’s biggest ballers rocking Beats by Dre headphones. And while we’ve known for a minute that LeBron James had something in the works for his own pair, we were left in the dark as to exactly what the two would collaborate on. Yesterday, we were shown the light. Introducing “PowerBeats.” You’ll like what you see. Read More »
Last week we showed you a teaser, but now it’s time for the real thing. With a new season comes an all-new LeBron James signature shoe. Introducing the Nike Air Max LeBron VIII. Built on a basketball specific Max Air 360 unit – combined with Flywire technology – for ultimate cushioning, lightweight comfort and lockdown control, this might be LeBron’s best shoe to date. Check it out in greater detail after the jump. Read More »
We all saw this coming, but now it’s official: Austin Rivers is headed to Duke. All summer, Rivers (who is the No. 1 player in the country) has been keeping a diary for us on HighSchoolHoop.com, and in his last entry eliminated Florida from the running. Now, he’s eliminated everybody else. The other two schools remaining on his list were Kansas and North Carolina. Read More »
Houston Rockets’ point guard Aaron Brooks is the reigning NBA Most Improved Player award winner, having averaged 19.6 points and 5.3 assists per game and leading the League in three-pointers made.
With Yao Ming returning from major surgery, Brooks is one of the team’s top options offensively and one of their go-to guys in crunch time. Depending on how you feel about Luis Scola and Kevin Martin, Brooks may be the second-best player on the Rockets, or their top guy when Yao is sidelined. Read More »
Trust me, this didn’t happen overnight. Since the NBA Development League was founded in 2001, it has long been the goal of the NBA’s official minor league to try things out there before bringing them to the Big Show. Whether it’s talent (developing 20 percent of current NBA players as well as numerous coaches, referees and front-office staff), jerseys (testing the new adidas-developed NBA Revolution 30 uniforms for this season) or equipment (playing with various versions of the official Spalding game ball), the D-League has always served as the perfect conduit to change. Now let’s add some rules to the list. Read More »
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