After the weekend it became official: college basketball is back. Last week, we showed you what North Carolina and Cal will be wearing on their feet this season, but check out the exclusive Air Jordan 2010 Team for Marquette. We gave you a sneak peek after Midnight Madness, but here’s the real thing. Read More »

Depending on how you look at it, Friday night’s Heat/Grizzlies game was either sweetly nostalgic or bitterly depressing for NBA fans like myself who fell in love with the game in the 1990s.

On the court, Jerry Stackhouse was starting at two-guard for the Heat … but in 19 minutes he finished with 2 points and 2 fouls and had a couple ugly misses. Read More »

A five-player deal happened during the weekend that had the Raptors send Jarrett Jack, Marcus Banks and David Andersen to the Hornets in exchange for Jerryd Bayless and Peja Stojakovic. While the names aren’t the most important or relevant for most fantasy owners, there are still some implications to be discussed. Here’s a quick breakdown of the fantasy consequences: Read More »

You knew it’d be a good game Friday night when the Lakers came to the Target Center. After all, Michael Beasley had a five-game streak of 25-plus point games going, and you knew Ron Artest was going to take that personally. When it was all said and done, Beasley dropped another 25 points along with 10 boards, two assists, two blocks and two steals, but the Lakers got the W. But that didn’t stop Artest from dropping some knowledge after the game. Read More »

With the New Jersey Nets in Denver to play the Nuggets over the weekend, it’s no surprise that the two teams’ front-office execs met up to talk about Carmelo Anthony.

But while the drama sorts itself out, Denver fans may want to prepare themselves for the possibility of losing their other Olympic gold medalist, multiple-time All-Star and the only guy on the roster with an NBA Finals MVP trophy at home: Chauncey Billups. Read More »

Undefeated and Converse have been collaborating with one another for a minute, but this Friday’s release of the Undefeated x Converse Poorman Weapon is by far my favorite piece to drop to date. So forget waiting in line outside Best Buy for a 150-inch 3D TV, and get to your local Undefeated shop to cop a pair of these. Read More »

On Friday night, Rajon Rondo swiped his 30th steal of the NBA season. Besides 30 being a ton for just 12 games into the year, the 30-steal milestone means big things for Boston and the kids growing up playing ball on the city’s playgrounds. For every steal Rondo notches this season, Red Bull will donate $500 to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to refurbish parks throughout Boston (see Rajon’s personal message to the city here) as part of the Boston’s Got Wings program.

This first 30-steal milestone will see $15,000 allocated to Boston’s famed Malcolm X Park – a court rich with basketball history that is widely considered the top pickup run spot in Beantown. And now, as the season rolls on, the public gets to play a major role in deciding which courts gets the next infusion of refurbishment money. Read More »

You could see it coming, albeit it took an extra year to truly surface. You could feel the woosh as it swept by, but that feeling was never quite as strong as it is now. Too bad it didn’t have an odor, for if it did, the smell would undoubtedly make you cringe, more so for its authority than the stench. This force of nature, the amazingly nimble, slippery, yet destructively dangerous power that exploded out of this young NBA season was supposed to happen.

But not like this. Read More »

I’m pretty sure everyone was excited to see Allen Iverson on NBA TV yesterday, but no one really thought it would turn out like this. In his Turkish League debut for Besiktas Cola Turka, A.I. only scored two points in the 74-67 loss, not scoring his lone bucket (below) until late in the third quarter. So far with Iverson in the lineup, his team is 0-2.

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Five NCAA teams that got my attention this past weekend for various reasons:

1. NORTH CAROLINA (2-2) Those who thought the Tar Heels were overrated — cracking the AP preseason Top 10 following an NIT finish — were proven right after UNC lost twice at the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Classic, which happened to be their first encounter with major-conference competition. Read More »