Gil helped us ring in the new year
(Photo. Tim Tadder)
Can you tell we’re a little amped for the start of the regular season? We went into Dime #37 and pulled Gilbert Arenas’ Eastern Conference Preview and Carlos Boozer’s Western Conference Preview and dropped ‘em on the site yesterday. The feedback we got was split — […]

Like us, Smush had the day off.
(Photo. Tim Tadder)
You know how in baseball spring training they do the split-squad games? That was what Heat/Pistons looked like last night. Miami left Shaq, D-Wade and Zo at home, while Udonis Haslem, Smush Parker, ‘Toine and Penny were in the building but didn’t play either. That left a […]

A.I. at the plate
Very cool day for the whole Dime crew yesterday. For starters, some of us went up to Boston for the RBK Family Reunion, where Allen Iverson, Baron Davis, Gerald Green, Shaun Livingston and Marvin Williams were among the ballplayers who took the diamond in a NBA vs. media softball game. And if […]

First Kobe, now Rasheed. Word out of Detroit is that Rasheed Wallace has dropped 25 pounds since the end of the season — so much that Joe Dumars has been calling him “Slim Jim.” Thinking back, ‘Sheed did seem kinda slow last year, but we figured it was just age/ankle problems. And not saying Wallace […]

Cursed?
In all seriousness, today might be the biggest day in the history of the Portland Trail Blazers franchise. Really. Greg Oden is going under the knife for his exploratory knee surgery, and the results just might make the difference between him being the next Patrick Ewing or the next Sam Bowie. (And don’t start with […]

The fallout of the KG trade is already starting to bite Minnesota. Juwan Howard, who hasn’t even played a game yet for the Wolves, is reportedly asking to be traded already. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, when Howard came to the team in the trade for Mike James, he was excited to play with Garnett, […]