*This feature was originally printed in Dime #71. To see the piece in its entirety, check out the issue, currently on newsstands nationwide…*

Columbia basketball hasn’t had much success in a long time. For All-Ivy League senior point guard Brian Barbour, the 2012-2013 season is about establishing a winning culture and making the Lions a fixture atop the Ivy League standings. Read More »

In the new issue of Dime Magazine, we took a look at the best – and worst – the game has offered since the turn of the century. From the players to jerseys to sneakers to teams to even trends, you can relive the past 12 years by scooping up the new issue currently on newsstands nationwide. In those pages, you’ll find the following feature… Read More »

In the new issue of Dime Magazine, we took a look at the best – and worst – the game has offered since the turn of the century. From the players to jerseys to sneakers to teams to even trends, you can relive the past 12 years by scooping up the new issue currently on newsstands nationwide. In those pages, you’ll find the following feature… Read More »

SI’s Jim Trotter is currently tweeting that the suspensions levied against former and current Saints players for participating in the bounty scandal will be reversed? This is in no way related to basketball, as you can probably deduce yourself, but how often do suspensions for violence in sports get reversed. And, as a Knicks fan, it got me thinking back to Knicks brawls. Of course I immediately thought of the Knicks-Heat duels, with Jeff Van Gundy clinging to P.J. Brown‘s legs, but I also thought about the Knicks-Nuggets brawl from 2006. Read More »

We’d give you a backstory or context or explanation if there was one, but there just isn’t. So take this for what it is, which is Shaq goofing off in the only way he knows how. Walking through traffic wearing only his underwear. According to the crude cell phone video, it’s part of “The Comedy Shaq Tour,” but that pretty much describes his entire life since he became a fixture in the public eye. Read More »

Robert Pera, who is near the completion of a deal which will lead to his purchase of the Memphis Grizzlies, is looking for minority owners to help foot the bill. But instead of anonymous suits and business moguls, Pera is going the Mikhail Prokhorov route and dipping into the music scene. Except his minority owner musician isn’t exactly Jay-Z. It’s Justin Timberlake. Read More »

Kobe Bryant‘s divorce found its way into “Stay Schemin’,” a song from a Rick Ross mixtape featuring Drake and French Montana. The line in particular that references Bryant goes as follows:

“Kobe about to lose one hundred and fifty M’s [Million}, Kobe My N—- hate it to have to be him, B—- you wasn’t with me shootin in the gym.”

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The 2006 Western Conference Semis between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs was a series for the ages – Hall of Famers, a seven-game series and gut-wrenching drama. In particular, the Dallas Mavericks had never seen real playoff success until that season. Dirk Nowitzki, as a prelude to his 2011 championship run, poured in 37 points to go along with 15 rebounds in route to the Game 7 win. But the most memorable moment of the series came before that final Game 7 reached overtime, when the Dallas Mavericks were trailing 104-101 in the fourth quarter. Read More »

We talked a bit about them in Smack last night, but now we’re bringing you some still photos of the Knicks’ home and away jerseys to be used during the 2012-2013 season. This is all just a huge marketing tool to increase jersey sales, because fans will ultimately want the most up to date jerseys, even if they represent only a small change from what the Knicks were wearing in ’11-12. Read More »

It’s not often that an NBA head coach denounces a likely playoff team so presumptively, but here you have it. Avery Johnson, head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, spoke honestly about his team’s chances in the upcoming season. Despite adding Joe Johnson and re-signing most of the team’s big pieces, he’s still not uber confident. Here’s what he had to say, via the Dallas Morning News: Read More »