After averaging 18 points per game and winning the Sixth Man Award with the Hawks last season, swingman Jamal Crawford has demanded either an extension on his contract, or to be traded. Crawford currently has one year left on his contract and is scheduled to make $10.8 million this season. Personally, I think that’s a lot of money for someone just to shoot threes. Don’t get me wrong, Crawford was the best player in the playoffs for the Hawks last season when Joe Johnson decided not to show up (again), but perhaps it’s time to part ways. Read More »

What are NBA players doing this summer if they’re not playing in the World Championships? Well, we know more than a handful have been out in L.A. putting in work at HAX. In this video, you can see Team Muscle Milk with Brandon Jennings, Bobby Brown, Shaun Livingston and Julian Wright take on Team ESPNZONE with Nick Young, JaVale McGee and D.J. Strawberry in the championship game of the Nike Real Run. While Jennings’ squad dominated throughout the whole game, Young rallied a fourth quarter comeback, finishing with a game-winning shot in the final seconds. Check it out.

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If you weren’t watching Spain take on Lithuania yesterday, then chances are you missed this savage posterization of Spain’s Rudy Fernandez by Lithuania’s Jonas Mačiulis. If I’m Rudy, I quit my complaining and stay in Portland, because it appears there’s a lot more where that came from overseas.

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This may seem like nothing, but it could mean everything. According to a brief report in the Boston Herald, Delonte West was apartment hunting in Waltham, Mass., this week. And for those of you that don’t know, Waltham is where the Celtics’ practice facility is located. Despite the depth at the guard position with Nate Robinson, Marquis Daniels, Von Wafer and rookie Avery Bradley behind Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen – as well as Oliver Lafayette and Tony Gaffney who were on the playoff roster last season – there have been murmurs about West’s return ever since he was waived by the Timberwolves. Read More »

Our business is prone to over-exaggeration: It was the best dunk ever, the worst trade ever, the sickest pair of sneakers ever, etc. We have to grab your attention and we have to get advertisers and, well, that’s just how it goes. But taking away all hyperbole and being totally straight — the NBA TV announcer calling yesterday’s Spain/Lithuania and France/Canada games at the World Championship was the WORST ANNOUNCER IN THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL … Seriously, what soccer game did they steal this guy from? We would have been better off with Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins on the mic. Read More »