Don’t wear him out early, Doc…
There’s a reason (or three) why Celtics fans fear Doc Rivers could be the biggest hurdle standing between the Big Three and a championship. Take, for example, the way Doc has been managing Ray Allen’s minutes. Over the weekend Doc sat KG and Paul Pierce for a game in which […]

With everyone talking about bouncing to Europe lately, we can’t be mad at Lynn Greer. Passing on a guaranteed $770,000 with the Bucks this year, Greer is headed to Greece for a nice $3.5 million per for the next two years. Lynn never really did get a fair shot in the League. He was The […]

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After his breakout postseason, Baron Davis is looking for long-term love. He’s got two years and about $33.5 million left on his deal with Golden State, but could opt out after this season — which he says he’ll do if he doesn’t get an extension signed in the next couple weeks. Obviously you […]

After months of thinking it over — and coming off the heels of the annual uber-party that is Zo’s Summer Groove — Alonzo Mourning said he’s coming back for one more year with the Heat. A player of Zo’s age (37), stature (borderline Hall of Famer) and salary ($2.7 million) usually only comes back for […]

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Three years ago, Steve Francis was giving the Kobe/Shaq Lakers triple-doubles in the playoffs and was probably one of the 15 or 20 best players in the entire League. Now he’s taking Chris Webber-ish “please just go away” buyouts and his free agency is less of a story than Darko being on […]

Just like the pro ballplayers, we’re gearing up for the playoffs here in the Dime office; only with much worse eating habits and much lazier workouts. Yesterday we posted the Playoff X-factors to watch for in the first round, and the Best Playoff Matchups. We even dropped the visuals on D-Wade’s Playoff Kicks that he’ll […]

At least they have a Cinnabon…
The Dime crew is in Vegas for the rest of the week and this weekend, and if yesterday was any indication, this All-Star Weekend is gonna be bananas. Two of our guys began the day stuck in NYC’s Kennedy Airport for seven hours waiting for their plane. During that time […]