Carlos Boozer (photo. Jeffrey Salter)
Carlos Boozer returned to the land of the living on Friday, playing his best game in about six weeks and ruining any plans the Lakers had of pulling a “Fo, fo, fo and fo” on the ‘08 postseason. Booz slapped up 27 points and 20 boards as the Jazz handed L.A. […]

Gilbert Arenas (photo. David Deal)
You saw it coming. After getting out-bullied when they tried to be bullies in Game 1, then getting blown out last night and staring an 0-2 series deficit right in the face, the Wizards began falling apart. Leading the charge, naturally, was DeShawn Stevenson. With his team trailing by 19 in […]

Photo. Gary Land
Jazz/Spurs last night might have been one of the best games of the year. As has been their way lately, San Antonio came out of the gate playing sloppily and dug themselves a sizable hole, but rallied to tie it up midway through the second quarter. Every time the Jazz made a run […]

Ray did all he could. (Photo. Jordan Brand)
Which team had more to prove last night: the Celtics or the Pistons? We said it was Detroit, a team being overshadowed by the stars glittering in Boston and the surprising Orlando Magic, not to mention coming off that discombobulating conference finals loss to LeBron and Co., they […]

Photo. Gary Land
Overheard in the Dime office Monday afternoon: “I’m going to watch the Kings game and try to figure out why Kevin Martin is good.” That was the plan. Too bad Andrei Kirilenko got involved. K-Mart II did score 21 on the night, but his team got mollywhopped in Salt Lake City. Even with […]

Photo. Marc Morrison
Oubliette — “A form of dungeon which was accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling. To exit an oubliette was nearly impossible without outside help. The word comes from the French oublier, ‘to forget,’ as it was used for those prisoners the captors wished to forget. Most prisoners were left to […]

The champ is here…
If you played high school sports at all, you know what it means when your squad is scheduled to be someone else’s homecoming opponent. That was the Blazers last night. The Spurs were in victory-lap mode, picking up their championship rings in front of the home crowd, unveiling the banner and rocking […]

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 — […]

Ricky Davis (Photo. Gary Land)
You think Ricky Davis isn’t gonna take a ton of shots this year? Between KG being gone, a team full of young T’wolves who will naturally defer to a veteran, the high likelihood that Minnesota will be trying to shoot their way back into a lot of games, and the fact […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
LeBron was at the Indians game last night. In Cleveland. Wearing a Yankees cap. Craig Sager (it’s weird watching Sager and David Aldridge doing baseball games) tried to give ‘Bron a hard time for it, but he was just like, “I’m here to represent for the Yankees.” Guess you can’t blame LeBron too […]