A.I. on Dime’s 2005 Collector’s Issue
Ask any top-level defensive stopper — be it Kevin Garnett or Bruce Bowen or Ron Artest or Gary Payton — and they’ll tell you that playing tough defense ultimately comes down to effort and desire. So when an ultra-talented offensive team like the ‘07-08 Denver Nuggets run risk of missing […]

Does Ray Felton need to call for backup?
(Photo. Stephen Hill)
What does Adam Morrison’s season-ending ACL tear mean for the Bobcats? For starters, it means they just lost their most talented scorer off the bench (although Matt Carroll’s still gonna drop buckets this year). Second, it means another piece of that “young talent” puzzle Charlotte had […]

Photo. Gary Land
There are only five reasons why you would normally be extra-interested in watching an NBA preseason game: 1) It’s the first game of the year and you’re dying to watch any form of basketball, 2) There’s a hotshot rookie involved, 3) Michael Jordan’s playing for the Wizards, 4) You’re going to the game, […]

Photo. Brian Maranan Pineda
Caught some more summer league games yesterday, with the marquee matchup being Sonics/Knicks. Another L and another bad shooting night for Kevin Durant, who went for 18 points on 4-for-19 shooting. Just like last time, KD got where he wanted to in order to get his shot off, but they weren’t falling […]

Seven games on the NBA schedule yesterday, and only one of them meant anything: Clippers/Hornets in Oklahoma City, two teams fighting for that No. 8 playoff seed in the Western Conference. Long story short, it came down to Elton Brand vs. David West: EB had the better stat line and both guys hit clutch buckets, […]

Kobe Bryant re-entered the Curtis Jackson Zone on Friday night, cracking 50 again when he gave the Rockets 53 points, albeit in an overtime loss. The Lakers were down by 12 with four minutes to go in regulation when Kobe took over. He scored 17 in that final stretch, and with L.A. down three in […]

Kobe turned in early on Friday.
The Jazz are trying to hold it together. Last night they got Carlos Boozer (10 pts) and Deron Williams (28 pts, 14 asts) back in the lineup, but were without Mehmet Okur (back) and lost Andrei Kirilenko (knee) during their win over the Nuggets. “It seems like everybody’s in their […]

Smile, Vince…
In the middle of Tracy McGrady’s evisceration of the Heat on national TV, they showed a highlight package of T-Mac giving it to literally every defender Miami tried to stick on him: D-Wade, Kapono (an especially bad one), Payton, Posey - it was surgery by the real “Docta Smooth.” (If you’ve seen that NBA […]