If we could go back to the 2010 NBA Draft, we’d realize Detroit thought they had themselves a keeper. With the No. 36 pick, the Pistons took Terrico White, a 6-5 combo guard who promised to be one of the best athletes in the NBA the second he donned a jersey. Yet after balling in that jersey for less than one preseason game, he hurt his foot and missed his entire rookie season. So we have a second round pick who missed his whole first year for a team that nobody cares about? No wonder people didn’t realize he was in the NBA until last weekend. Read More »
If the NBA season was going ahead as planned, Sonny Weems and the Raptors would have played a home game against the Clippers on Wednesday. Instead, Weems suited up for Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania on Thursday, and led all scorers with 22 points on 4-of-7 shooting from three-point range. That includes this gem at the buzzer right before halftime.
For the past few years I’ve been able to see Steve Nash play soccer at his annual Showdown in Chinatown, a charity game where NBA players and global soccer stars take the field to raise money for his foundation. But there’s a big difference watching Nash play soccer with guys like Jared Dudley and Grant Hill, than it is watching him play with guys that actually know how to play.
Screw you Dave Checketts. Screw you. If you were following along with lockout news yesterday, you would’ve noticed that at some point in the late afternoon, people started getting really excited. It’s because this dude Checketts – who used to be general manager of the Jazz, president of the New York Knicks and president of Madison Square Garden – said in a radio interview that he had heard the players and owners had agreed to a deal. Checketts knows David Stern well, and his name is big enough that it gave people a quick fluttering of the stomach. But it wasn’t long before everyone and their momma shot it down. Read More »
We’ll call this the list Gary McGhee loves to hate…
I’ve been on both sides of the coin before. But it’s the embarrassing times you remember. One in particular stands out for me. College. Sophomore year. Preseason. Every fall at a D-III college is always the same: there are the returning players and then there are dozens of kids from high school, all coming together and all believing they’ll be one of the three or four kids who actually make the team. They all have some game – or at least a little bit – and they’re all cocky. Read More »
We’re sure you already know, but it’s a big week in the high school basketball world. In addition to the season getting underway, Wednesday marked the beginning of the early signing period where players could finally put their college commitments in writing. As always, HighSchoolHoop.com has been all over the biggest news in the recruiting world, as well as unearthing some amazing video footage. See what you may have missed: Read More »
It’s not just us, and it’s not just you. It’s everyone. Everyone is sick of charity games, of celebrity games and nights ending up 170-168. It was cool for a while. That got us through the summer of no basketball, trade rumors or signings: “Capital Punishment,” “The Big Payback,” and all the rest. But Jamal Crawford and Lou Williams are promising something different. Seattle and Atlanta are two consistently overlooked hoop hotbeds. But now we’ll have the chance to see which city is better. Expect it to be heated. Expect it to be real. Read More »
After seeing the camouflage jerseys for this Friday’s Carrier Classic between North Carolina and Michigan State, I’m pretty sure everyone is even more psyched for the game. But wait – how do you play basketball on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier? I mean, it has to be a little different than the Dean Dome or the Breslin Center. Thankfully, John Brenkus of ESPN’s Sports Science breaks it down for us. Read More »
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Another week, another DimeBag. We’re a little downtrodden this week – okay, let’s be honest – depressingly terrified of the owners’ “take it or leave it” demands, or, the day basketball blew up in a puff of immature bargaining smoke. It’s a sad state of affairs, especially when the owners can roll around in their leverage and hurl ridiculous ultimatums wrapped in extended middle fingers. Alright, enough lockout talk. Let’s get to the mindless minutae that will carry us through. Read More »
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