Dirk (photo. Monte Isom)
Remember a couple years ago when Tim Duncan played almost the entire season with a bad foot because the Spurs couldn’t afford to give him a rest and lose ground to the Mavs in the Southwest? At stake then was the difference between a #1-seed in the conference and a #4-seed. Yesterday, […]

“I’ve abandoned Jordan Farmar!”
(Photo. Chris Sembrot)
Knowing that Brandon Roy (ankle) is still on the shelf, Blazers/Lakers on Tuesday’s schedule meant Martell Webster would be the one charged with guarding Kobe. Going in, we were thinking it could get bloody for Martell, but the kid actually held his own for a while. In the first quarter […]

Photo. Gary Land
There’s one thing everyone on the “Boston hasn’t played anybody” train shouldn’t forget: the C’s have played last year’s Atlantic Division champs three times already, and two of those times the Raptors got cracked. Yesterday was the second such blowout — there were times when it looked like Toronto shouldn’t have been on […]

J.R. Smith (Photo. Stephen Hill)
Your J.R. Smith Trade Watch update: With ‘Melo, Iverson, Nene and K-Mart among those sitting out for a short-handed Denver squad in last night’s game against Detroit, J.R. got about 25 minutes of burn with which to help or hurt his trade value. (The illustrious trio of Von Wafer, Anthony Roberson […]

CP is rapping now? (Photo. David Deal)
One of our guys was in D.C. yesterday and heard a radio announcer talking about a new song about the Redskins by Chris Paul. “I figured the dude had to be off; maybe he meant to say Chris Brown or Sean Paul,” our guy wrote. “I looked it up […]

Photo. Gary Land
Everyone has something to say about what Kevin Garnett wants to do and where he wants to play, but only KG himself knows what’s really up, and he’s not talking. At least not to the media. New York Daily News columnist Mitch Lawrence quotes an anonymous T’Wolves player who apparently spoke to Ticket […]