Standing Tall and Ticked (photo. Mannion)
Cue another summer of the Phoenix Suns (secretly) and their fans (very publicly) blaming the refs and whatever other straws they can grasp onto while trying to come to grips with another heartbreaking playoff exit. You could say last night’s game hinged on a few crucial calls/no-calls, most of which […]

Dirk came through; Nash didn’t
We said it a couple days ago in our NBA Hit List player ranking: “These next two games is where we’ll see what kind of leader (Steve) Nash is. Right now you can’t tell if this is his team or Shaq’s.” So what happened in last night’s Suns/Spurs game? Nash had […]

Kobe (photo. Chris Sembrot)
As crazy and unpredictable as the ‘07-08 NBA regular season was, already in these playoffs we’ve seen some pretty predictable events. For example, was there any doubt the Wizards would lose their collective heads and starting acting a fool once LeBron and the Cavs started embarrassing them? Did you ever question whether […]

Kobe (photo. Mannion)
Talk about an East Coast bias; yesterday the New York City airwaves were devoid of the Lakers/Nuggets game until about midway through the fourth quarter, with every major network pre-empting their regular programming to show the Pope conducting a mass at Yankee Stadium. It was understandable — after all, there are more Catholics […]

Chris Paul (photo. Mannion)
For 47 minutes of Hornets/Magic, Peja Stojakovic was having such an off night that the Orlando announcers were questioning Byron Scott for even having him on the court in crunch time. But that didn’t stop Peja from stepping up with about a minute to go and hitting the go-ahead three-pointer on a […]

Photo. Gary Land
Wednesday’s big story was Allen Iverson’s return to Philly. (If you haven’t seen the special RBK kicks A.I. wore for the occasion, click HERE.) Very cool scene as the sold-out arena showed A.I. lots of love during intros and he returned the favor, coming pretty close to tearing up. The closest thing we’ve […]

T-Mac (photo. Marc Morrison)
After the Rockets notched consecutive win #19, we asked in the DimeMag.com poll when T-Mac’s crew would finally lose. Understandably, not many of you thought last night’s game in Atlanta would be the streak-breaker. But there the Rockets were, in a one-possession game with five minutes left before Mac (28 pts, 9 […]

Photo. Mannion
How would the Lakers adjust to life without Andrew Bynum? Playing a Sonics team against which he usually drops plenteous buckets, Kobe Bryant decided to go into Tony Montana mode (“Who put this $*** together? Me, that’s who!”) and had his eyes locked onto the rim — on his first 10 touches he shot […]

The more we look at the Ricky Davis/Antoine Walker trade, we have to wonder: What did Ricky do so wrong to make Minnesota want to dump him for ‘Toine — who might get bought out and never even play for them — and 1.5 big men? (The 0.5 is for the half season Wayne Simien […]

Ricky’s gonna get his. Now who’s with him?
We were watching NBA TV yesterday when all of a sudden they broke into a “special presentation” and went out to a press conference set-up in Minnesota. Since we hadn’t heard any T’wolves-related news at that point, we had no idea what was about to happen — at […]

Photo. David Deal
Last night the Dime crew was up at Rucker Park for something unprecedented and pretty cool: 2K Sports’ motion capture session for NBA 2K8 on the world famous playground court with Andre Iguodala, Gerald Wallace, Rudy Gay and 2K8 cover guy Chris Paul. Chris Bosh was also in the house, but he was […]