Amare Stoudemire (photo. Mannion)
It’s been a minute since we’ve done one of these, so here’s a recap of the rules:

(1) The overarching theme is that while each team has the same roster it had at the time of the draft, they have the added benefit of knowing how each potential draftee will turn out as […]

One of the most-watched players in Beijing is without a doubt Spain’s Ricky Rubio. We’ve made secret on this about how much we love his game - once even referring to him as “Pistol Lite.”

ESPN’s Chris Sheridan posted a brief breakdown of Rubio’s relatively brief Olympic debut against Greece over the weekend. You can read […]

The L.A. Daily News is reporting that the Lakers have agreed to terms with Chinese draft pick Sun Yue, aka “The Chinese Magic Johnson.”

Sun, known as the Chinese Magic Johnson because of his eye-catching playmaking ability, will face his future teammate Kobe Bryant when China plays the United States on Sunday in the Olympic Games […]

Jerryd Bayless (photo. Aaron Taylor)
In this morning’s Smack we hit on the fact that Vegas Summer League terror Jerryd Bayless was curiously left off the roster for the USA Select squad that will be scrimmaging the USAB varsity while guys like O.J. Mayo and the Robin Lopez made the cut.

This afternoon the USAB program […]

And we’re not just saying that because he’s our guy.

Danilo Gallinari (photo. Matt Brown)
NY Post Knicks writer Marc Berman is with the team’s summer league squad out in Las Vegas and had a chance to watch the team scrimmage last night. Berman came away quite impressed with what he saw from Danilo Gallinari:

On the eve of the summer-league opener, all eyes were on Danilo […]

Elton Brand
There was a lot of speculation earlier today that the Sixers were going to make this move to push their available free agent money from $11 million to $15 million in order to try and outbid the Clippers for Elton Brand and/or the Hawks for Josh Smith. Both the Clips and Hawks have said […]

Michael Beasley
We’ve been trying to watch the live-streaming NBA summer league action from Orlando today, but with the Internet in the office acting up, it’s been near impossible. However, it seems like a lot of you out there have been able to watch the games with no problem, so for the rest of Monday’s schedule […]

We’re trying to. You can only watch the games on the Orlando Magic’s site, and so far, it’s pretty horrible. The video gets hung up every few seconds, the viewing window is tiny, you can’t see the score, and there is nothing to indicate who is who. Are you all having the same issues?

If you’re […]

Episode 4, DRAFT NIGHT: Jerryd fidgets his way through the day until the time has finally come to learn where he’ll play next year. Projected to go in the top 7 picks, Jerryd has to wait a little bit longer to hear his name read, and even longer before he finds out who he’ll be […]