Our friends over at DraftExpress are featuring the latest on Spain’s Ricky Rubio - the guy many think is the next Pistol Pete and who DraftExpress has ranked as the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NBA Draft.
Check out Rubio’s YouTube clips when you get chance…

This popped up on YouTube a little while ago. It’s a message from Rudy Gay inviting users to submit videos of their favorite dunks. He’ll check them out and choose one to use in this year’s dunk contest.

Earlier in the week, we broke down each participant’s strengths and weaknesses in this year’s dunk contest. […]

Is he up for Nellie-Ball?
On Tuesday we linked to Golden State of Mind’s post about how the Warriors are planning to bring in GP.
Now today, the Sacramento Bee has a story about how Chris Webber could be headed back to Golden State instead:
Word on the street says Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson […]

Over the weekend, Nate Robinson had one of the filthiest follow-up dunks we’ve ever seen:

We immediately thought of this A.I. clip from his rookie year when we saw it. It’s without a doubt one of our favorite dunks of all-time…

If Nate wasn’t such a knucklehead the last time he was in the dunk contest, […]

ESPN.com’s Chris Sheriden breaks down the basics about the D-League, including everything from what players get as a per diem ($30 a day on the road) and the lowlight of the D-League season so far (JamesOn Curry’s public urination and resisting arrest charges from yesterday).
Check it out HERE.
It leads us to the question: Has anyone […]

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The great D.C. Sports Bog posted an entry today about Gilbert Arenas becoming friends with a random high school kid through MySpace a few years back. Now the two are tight and still talk even when the kid is away at college. Pretty cool story.
Check it out HERE.

From today’s Dallas Morning News:
If Dirk Nowitzki could impart one piece of advice to Tony Romo, he would tell the Cowboys’ quarterback to get over it.
Dwelling on the negative for too long can be unhealthy for anybody, Nowitzki said Wednesday. He and the Mavericks went through it last spring when they were upset in […]

Ray’s feeling it.(Photo. Jordan)
CelticBlog.com posted this today about Ray Allen and his shooting display last night against the Blazers:
Ray Allen has been struggling as of late (10.2 ppg in the last 5 games), but turned it on in the second half last night to score 35, a season high for him. He was obviously […]

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Warriors blog Golden State of Mind celebrates the one-year anniversary of “The Trade” and what it has meant for the W’s.
Click HERE for the post (and a great photo of Chris Mullin laughing like an evil genius).

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An article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle tells the story of how Baron Davis met Jerry West on the street over the summer. The two became tight and The Logo counseled BD on how to handle not receiving a contact extension from the Warriors when he wanted one.
Davis had a chip on his […]

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It’s kind of crazy that we’re talking like this about the Lakers and it’s not because they lost Kobe. The L.A. Times Lakers Blog says today that L.A.’s season basically depends on when Andrew Bynum returns and how long it takes himself to get back into the form we’ve been seeing from him over […]

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Today’s Washington Post has an interesting story about Tracy McGrady’s visit to refugee camps in Darfur this past summer:
By the time the Rockets’ Tracy McGrady’s five-day visit to three refugee camps for Darfur’s displaced residents in eastern Chad ended last summer, he had lost about 10 pounds from a lack of food and […]