You probably saw Nick Young dole out a fitted hat to Andrew Bogut last night (as well as Bogut stuffing Young on another attempted crowning). Earlier this year the Wizards were campaigning to get Nick into the All-Star Weekend dunk contest, but after a while the rookie’s rumored exploits in practice turned into a source […]

Photo. adidas
The Southwest is the most talent-filled division in the NBA. To wit: the 11th seed in this bracket of our 1-on-1 tournament is a seven-time All-Defensive Team member with three championship rings. The 7th seed? One of the three most complete point guards the game has ever seen. And on the outside (way outside) […]

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Photos from adidas’ “Basketball is a Brotherhood” All-Star Weekend event. KG, Dwight, Tim, Chauncey and Jamison played ball with some New Orleans area kids and shared some words of advice.

One of the things we’ll always remember from this past NBA All-Star Weekend was Kevin Garnett, who was injured and didn’t even have to be in New Orleans, flying in anyway to take part in adidas’ “Basketball is a Brotherhood” event. The abdominal strain that had kept KG sidelined for several games meant KG wouldn’t […]

B-Roy at Friday’s Media Day
Like he’s been doing for the last season and a half with the Portland Trail Blazers, Brandon Roy played like a seasoned vet in his All-Star debut. The ’07 Rookie of the Year and this year’s early-season MVP candidate put up 18 points, 9 boards and 5 assists in his first […]

Ready for the main event.
(Photo. Mannion)
Back again, after bringing you Dwight Howard’s superheroics from Saturday and Daniel Gibson’s Pacman Special from Friday, for tonight’s running diary of the main event: the ‘08 NBA All-Star Game. Check in during the pre-game and the actual game for constant updates…

PRE-GAME

After yesterday’s debacle trying to get into the building, […]

Welcome to CP’s house (Photo. Mannion)
Just like I did last night with the Rookie Challenge, a running diary of All-Star Saturday Night. Keep checking in throughout the events for periodic updates…

For whatever reason, they’ve decided to have the most gridlocked entrance area ever to get into New Orleans Arena. I find myself waiting in a […]

Photo. Mannion
Kobe Bryant doesn’t really want to play in tomorrow’s All-Star Game, but he’s going to anyway. Through no choice of his own. Here’s a part of the AP story:

Bryant said he’d “rather not play” Sunday night, but didn’t think he had a choice. NBA policy dictates that if a player is healthy enough to […]

Garnett is here… (Photo. Land)
Just got back to my room at the Marriott after spending the morning at the NBA’s Jam Session complex for All-Star practice and other things…

At 9 a.m., adidas held it’s “Basketball is a Brotherhood” event: Kevin Garnett (in his Celtics uniform but still injured), Tim Duncan, Dwight Howard, Chauncey Billups and […]

Photo. Cheryl Gerber, Converse
All-Star Weekend offers the rare opportunity to get to know more about your favorite NBA stars: What guys wear when they hit the club, what their party game is like, and what they’re like off the floor. We stopped by Converse Open Gym on the campus of Tulane University, where Dwyane Wade […]

Allen Iverson
Random photos from All-Star Media Day at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans. Both the All-Star rosters, plus the Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout and Shooting Stars participants were on-hand. Check out the highlights of Media Day HERE. Have fun adding your own captions.

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Random photos from All-Star Media Day at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans. Both the All-Star rosters, plus the Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout and Shooting Stars participants were on-hand. Check out the highlights of Media Day HERE. Have fun adding your own captions.

Rudy Gay (Photo. Tina Williams)
Running diary of the Rookie Challenge. Keep checking in during the game for periodic updates…

Just like last year, T-Mobile has seen to it that most (pretty much all) of the crowd consists of kids, and most of tem are wearing pink T-Mobile jerseys with “New Orleans” and “08″ on the back. […]

Highlights from the just-wrapped-up NBA All-Star Media Day:

* LeBron was asked who’s better between him and Kobe: “Kobe. No question,” LeBron said very seriously. Pressed to elaborate, ‘Bron kept saying that “Nobody is better than Kobe.”

* The crowd surrounding Kobe was by far the largest of the day, ahead of Yao Ming and Steve Nash. […]

D-Wade
After checking out the most absurd event of all-time, we got in some clutch post-midnight eats over at Harrah’s hotel courtesy of Converse. The buffet was spectacular; even the most serious consumers in the DIME family were satisfied with the robust display of eggs, pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, biscuits and fruit. But no one was […]