Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant Crack Portland; The Heat Put Up Historic Buckets
The Lakers handled the Hornets pretty easily, 102-84. L.A.’s play-by-play guy had us laughing when he likened Andrew Bynum’s nightly early trip to the bench after picking up his third foul to a little kid stomping to his room … The Grizzlies took advantage of a Tim Duncan-less Spurs team, to win 111-104. Gregg Popovich was booted after going ballistic defending an absurd Manu Ginobili flop that didn’t get a whistle. How tired is Pop of having to act like he has Manu’s back when Ginobili isn’t rewarded for his schtick? … The Sixers lost a matinee game at home against the Kings yesterday afternoon that was sent to overtime on a serious Lou Williams three at the buzzer. Sacramento would hold on to win the game, mostly thanks to Marcus Thornton, who blasted Philly for 29 of his 32 after halftime … So, do you think that CBS execs have a consistent about-to-puke feeling anticipating the TV ratings for a VCU/Butler Final Four game on Saturday? For hardcore basketball fans though, it’s great – both teams more than earned their way to Houston. Yesterday, VCU came out just kicked Kansas Jayhawk ass up and down the floor, as the nightmare scenario for Kansas unfolded pretty much from the jump. VCU played harder than they did on every possession, their zone forced Kansas into tough shots, VCU broke out on every rebound and played at their pace, and the Rams were raining threes for the entire game. Recipe for disaster for Kansas … A guy named Omar Burton tweeted this image taken in Richmond just minutes after the VCU win became official. Somehow we think it’s still going off down there …
After 13 years, Kentucky is back in the Final Four after they knocked off UNC yesterday afternoon. They will now play UConn on Saturday night. Without a doubt, the Brandon Knight/Kemba Walker matchup will be the main event … For a second there in that Kentucky/Carolina game, we thought we were about to witness Harrison Barnes really make “the leap.” He was doing work in the second half, but he stopped just short of really taking over the game and willing his team to victory … We’re out like looking off KD.
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March 28th, 2011 at 2:20 am
Q says:
Does Brandon Knight play inconsistent through the tourney/season. Did he deserve the East Bracket MOP.
March 28th, 2011 at 2:20 am
Q says:
Does Brandon Knight play inconsistent through the tourney/season? Did he deserve the East Bracket MOP?
March 28th, 2011 at 2:52 am
jerkishbehavior.com says:
Harrision Barnes did take over but kentucky was hitting 3s like fuckin layups all game and that was the difference in the game. Watch they become brick city vs uconn
No mention of Shannon Browns ridiculous contest worthy 50 dunk, shit was bananas
March 28th, 2011 at 2:54 am
Showtime says:
Last week McGee really struggled to get into double figures and now he scores 28?
March 28th, 2011 at 3:06 am
beiber newz says:
dime clear this up por favor,
the knicks have a draft pick this summer which can be exchanged with the rockets (on HOU’s call), true or false.
and if they do..which one of these guards (who could potentially fall to their pick at roughly 17) should the knicks target:
JIMMER FRIDETTE , KEMBA WALKER , BRANDON KNIGHT
readers, yall can weigh in too. which of those 3 guards would be a better ft with melo and stat?
March 28th, 2011 at 3:15 am
Me says:
none are good picks.
jimmer’s a fringe nba player at best, brandon should stay in school, and kemba hasn’t shown he’s a guy who you can trust to make good decisions as a pg.
They should trade for a pg cuz i dont see anyone in the draft that’s worth it for them.
I really wish my man OJ Mayo would go to another team- ANY team. (Chicago ideally, but NY wouldn’t be bad either)
March 28th, 2011 at 3:17 am
Jay says:
-Knight has been the most consistent player in terms of scoring on UK. Check his Stats. Dude got it in tonight and been there consistently for UK when they needed a bucket.
-NY probably pick up Jimmer, cause man don’t play D and can stroke the ball. So he fits into NY system. Just feed off the double teams.
March 28th, 2011 at 4:12 am
K Dizzle says:
Is Kemba Walker really gonna be better than Toney Douglas or a Marcus Thornton?
Lakers again, baby. Just goin out n killin s**t.
March 28th, 2011 at 4:49 am
yoda says:
three guys in scored 30 a piece and they barely won? what did other guys on miami did?
lakers are rolling, and they are 4 games behind spurs. there might be some small chance that we will catch up to them and take that first place in west and in nba. i hope lakers stay healthy so we can get 3rd title in a row.
March 28th, 2011 at 5:57 am
Skeeter McGee says:
I’m a VCU student in Richmond right now… shit is nuts. We gonna win it all and I know people are gonna hate on my comment, but then again, everyone been hatin’ on us so it don’t matter.
Y’all talk, we win.
RAMS
March 28th, 2011 at 7:28 am
ay yayayaah says:
first bitches……………………………….. hahahahah hahahahaha hahahahah
March 28th, 2011 at 8:23 am
JAY says:
@ McGee; “I know people are gonna hate on my comment, but then again, everyone been hatin’ on us so it don’t matter.”
Who’s hating on VCU??? Lol. Everyone loves Cinderella stories bud. and I haven’t read any comments, nevermind negative comments… ANY comments about VCU here. I didn’t have them going this far in my bracket but now I’m cheering for them to win because they’re underdogs who are playing awesome ball. But if the VCU students share the same “Us versus the world” type of mentality as you have, i’ll have to pull my support.
Reality check: nobody is hating on VCU. Stop your delusions!
March 28th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Patrick says:
kansas should be running sprints today even though the season is over. that was the biggest choke job in years. two “potential lottery pick” big men turning the ball over and missing layups in crunch time. 55% from the free thrown line.
March 28th, 2011 at 8:58 am
First & Foremost says:
LOL… Jay he is just caught up in the moment. C’mon guy, everyone loves the giant killer.
Boise > Oklahoma
Pistons > Lakers
Everyone > Tiger
The 6th Man
Anyone > UCONN Women
March 28th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Sean Sweeney says:
So how many combined classes will the guys on VCU and Butler go to this week?
March 28th, 2011 at 9:18 am
Sean Sweeney says:
Honestly, I might not show up to any haha
March 28th, 2011 at 9:31 am
sean.dynastybball says:
If you didn’t see Monta’s highlights from yesterday click my name. On a side note, JaVale McGee has been playing really well lately especially with Blatche out. I’m hoping the guy can carry this type of production into next season for fantasy purposes (I don’t care if the Wizards lose every game).
March 28th, 2011 at 9:48 am
smoove chips says:
lakers getting it in. With a little luck we might juuust sneak into that one spot. I’m good either way though. The swag is in full effect..
March 28th, 2011 at 9:49 am
MattO says:
hey Dime…your iGoogle widget/RSS feed thing is broken again..
March 28th, 2011 at 9:53 am
jdizzle says:
How in thee hell do you let THREE PEOPLE get 30 and 10!?
March 28th, 2011 at 11:15 am
beiber newz says:
brandon knight will be a special player if billups sticks around one more season to teach him.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:29 am
That's What's Up says:
Spurs are hurting.
They could easily drop to 2nd in the west.
It looks like they’ll drop this home game tonight against Portland, so if you’re a gambler, jump all over this game.
March 28th, 2011 at 11:43 am
BRUCE says:
Go VCU, so Viet Cong University!
March 28th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Lotfi says:
What about Lebron’s Monster Dunk on 6ft.9-Rookie Patrick Patterson?!
http://www.nbadunks.org
p.s. Shannon Brown’s dunk was also worth seeing.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
LakeShow84 says:
Damn John Wall is fast..
LIKE FAST lol i may be late on that one but DAMN.. how someone gonna give u that much space and u still beat them by a solid 3-4 feet?? Crazy..
So should we just end the season right now and make it 3??? Aint no one seeing the Purple and Gold in the playoffs be real people.. we aint even playing playoff basketball we just clickin on D.. wait until we can get PHYSICAL..
And glad to see Perkins bring that “i never foul anyone!!” shit to OKC with him.. Ill always hate watchin him but respect what he brings to the table.. the douche lol
March 28th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Claw says:
F VCU, they cost me $80!
Have no clue who will win to go to the Championship game, watching Kentucky break down the Bucks and NC one on one they will be tough to beat and UConn has been balling with a solid backcourt.
One thing for sure is a cinderella will be playing for the championship.
F the Suns also, losing again in the 4th and saying goodbye to their playoff hopes. Gortat is turning into a monster, he alone made that trade worth doing with the Magic.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Chaos says:
VCU BABY!!! The Campus was nuts last night, they blocked off the street so all the students and supports could go celebrate. There is even a youtube video to show how packed the streets were
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&client=mv-google&hl=en&v=eDBEJvNqZPw
That’s the mobile youtube site I think since I am typing from a blackberry.
But yea it was insane. VCU jus seems to have so much more energy and a solid game plan for each team they play and Butler is a very winnable game and they should come out ready to knock another team off.
As good as kemba is, he doesn’t strike me a a guard who can lead an nba team. He doesn’t shoot at a high percentage and doesn’t really seem like he can make everyone better…same with fredette, he doesn’t play D and gets tunnel vision on offense.
March 28th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
QQ says:
One of the most surprising Final Fours ever. It’s good to be a hoops fan right now.
I’m picking VCU just so I could call this the craziest NCAA tournament EVER.
March 28th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Ian says:
I haven’t been watchin bball this past two weeks but chicago and the lakers can catch the spurs fuck moi!!
March 28th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
JAY says:
I read somewhere that there was 5.9 million brackets filled out on ESPN.com… and 2 predicted the Final Four correctly. That’s right… TWO!!!
March 28th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
QQ says:
I just read that the odds are favoring Kentucky, and the way that things have gone, of course they’re doomed.
But based on that concept that whatever the odds favor won’t win, then the odds are against the odds not winning, meaning the Kentucky would actually win the championship.
Yes, I just wrote that, and yes, your minds had just been blown.
March 28th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
chris says:
wouldn’t it be cool if it was vcu-butler for the chip? watching butler take out a much bigger and athletic florida team despite shooting poorly was interesting but painful. watching vcu take out a much bigger but spastic kansas team was a joy. both butler and vcu play a hustling team game that takes time and intelligence to learn. watching the uber-talented but naive/no team concept kentucky/north carolina kids run up and down the floor for 40 minutes was a bore (mcdonalds high school all-america redux). this whole system is leveraged to give the ‘power conferences’ a massive advantage (11 schools from the big east made it, all seeded 11 or higher, none had to go thru a ‘play-in’ game like vcu – why not?). the point seems to be to ensure 2 ‘power conference’ schools (and i use the word schools loosely) play for the championship. i think the conferences that vcu and butler played in this year should each get 3 automatic bids to march madness next year, as a reward for making the final four. i think the big 10, big 12, and pac 10 should be limited to only 2 bids in march madness each next year, as a penalty for NONE of their teams making it to the final 4. If you want to teach college athletes to play good basketball, change the system; if you want to continue to reward ‘one and done’ factories, keep it as it is – vcu/butler in the final four this year is the exception, not the rule.
March 28th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Stunnaboy2K11 says:
@JAY
Yeah I heard that as well, but who would have picked both VCU and Butler for the Final Four? Man I was THIS close to having a mostly correct FF (UConn, UNC, Kansas and Pitt haha)
I am so over the NBA right now, wake me up when the C’s stop sucking
If the Lakers catch the Spurs, we might as well give them the 3peat, and that means putting up with Laker fans shit for another year and reading alot of shit about whether Kobe is better than Jordan.
FUCK
March 28th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
First & Foremost says:
Wouldn’t the rest of the NBA want the Lakers to catch the Spurs. They would then have Memphis, OKC, Spurs, East
Instead of Hornets, Portland, OKC/Spurs, East.
Let LA catch SA if they want to.
March 28th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
jdizzle says:
@LakeShow84 since you’re giving the Lakers the title does that mean you’re beginning to trust Bynum’s knees?
March 28th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
LakeShow84 says:
@ JDizzle
Actually………… i am lol
March 28th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
dlight says:
Is Jimmer or Singlar the next Adam Morrison?
March 28th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
!!! says:
DENNIS RODMAN WHOOOOOOOOO??????????
March 29th, 2011 at 8:41 am
First & Foremost says:
Yea, watching Melo play defense would keep any Knicks fan up all night.
March 30th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
beiber newz says:
that comment the me sent..lol…knight getting a lot of coverage now…he’s my pick if NY misses out on kemba seeing how he wont make it past 16 mayb..but i hope he do, then kemba will b a knick