In the same week that the Blazers learned Greg Oden will miss the rest of the season due to another knee surgery, the Rockets found out their injury-prone franchise center, Yao Ming, will miss (at least) another two weeks due to a bone bruise in his ankle.
Yao has been out since Nov. 10, when he hurt his ankle early in Houston’s loss to the Wizards. He was originally slated to miss about one week, but now his return date has been pushed back. Read More »
This is what we’ve all been waiting for, and it’s finally about to happen: NBA TV will televise Allen Iverson and his Turkish team Besiktas Cola Turka this Sunday. Playing the defending Turkish Basketball League champion, Fenerbahce Ulker from Istanbul, we’ll get to see A.I. ballin’ against some legit competition as well. Read More »
I don’t have to tell you that there is definitely a spectrum when it comes to NBA players. Some guys will sign autographs, shake hands and kiss babies, and others, well, they prefer their privacy. With that said, all the extended Dime fam in Portland should jump at the opportunity to kick it with Nicolas Batum this afternoon. Here’s all the info: Read More »
The basketball legend of Chris Paul really began in 2002, when as a high school senior, Paul scored 61 points in one game to honor his grandfather, who had been killed just days beforehand. After he’d scored his 61st point, Paul missed a free throw on purpose to stay at that number for the 61 years Nathanial Jones lived.
Sheldon McClellan, a senior at Bellaire (Texas) High School who is ranked the 35th-best player in his class by Scout.com, made headlines similar to CP3 earlier this week when he honored a fallen former teammate with an emotional scoring explosion of his own. Read More »
Back in August I put you on to the Miami Heat Three-Player Foam Hand. But I have stumbled across something even better: the Golden State Warriors Radhand. As you can see, the Radhand – which is 20 inches tall – is the next generation in foam fingers. It’s the MacBook compared to the original Apple computer. Check it out after the jump. Read More »
Other than Kevin Garnett, most NBA players would tell you Hedo Turkoglu is one of the League’s most notorious trash talkers. Only the biggest difference between his smack and KG’s is that people can’t understand what he says. Thanks to Zach McCann of the Orlando Sentinel, Hedo’s former teammates Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis weigh in. Read More »
These have not been good times for sports in my hometown. The Seahawks, probably the most inconsistent team in the NFL, could win the league’s worst division with a sub-.500 record. The Mariners are coming off another 100-loss season. U of Washington football has to run the table to make a bowl game (any bowl game). And the Sonics … oh yeah.
So the fact that Felix Hernandez won the AL Cy Young this week was kind of a big deal back home. Having watched as many M’s games as I could — especially Hernandez’s starts — I felt King Felix was/is the best pitcher in the game. Read More »
What happens when you let Jerry West, James Worthy and the Clippers Spirit Dance Team fill out an NBA All-Star ballot? This. If you don’t have time to watch the video, check out their selections after the jump. Read More »
You always know something like this is bound to happen, but it’s rare the public gets a view into the corporate mindset. With that said, the homies over at Blazersedge have obtained an internal corporate memo from the Portland Trail Blazers with instructions for staff members regarding how to deal with fans who are upset about recent injuries to Greg Oden and Brandon Roy. Read More »
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