A.I. on Dime #28
Years ago, Jason Kidd told us that his man Gary Payton would have to be dragged off an NBA court before he retired. He just loved playing too much. You can say the same thing about Kidd — which is why we don’t buy the whole “He’s sitting out on purpose” story […]

Photo. Gary Land
A few days after copping MVP of the FIBA Europe championships, Andrei Kirilenko is stirring things up in Utah. Going off a translation of his Russian-language blog, AK-47 says Jerry Sloan’s “style and system is not suitable” for him, and says he’s already gone to the Jazz front office and told them he […]

CP’s second Dime cover
It’s getting a little ridiculous how everyone is not only taking the “Portland shouldn’t have drafted Greg Oden” stance now, but acting like they were saying Oden was the wrong pick back in June. Come on. The vast majority of you were saying Oden should have been #1 at the time — […]

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 […]

Over-the-top opening montages, band geeks talking smack, Dick Enberg going on some weird rant about “hands” — the NCAA title game was on and poppin’ last night between defending champs Florida and (likely) one-year juggernaut Ohio State … Props to the Gators, who managed to get the W and the back-to-back chips (first team since […]

You could say Greg Oden is one win away from “pulling a Carmelo,” only it’s not like Oden is really carrying Ohio State the way ‘Melo carried Syracuse in ‘03. Is he clearly the best player on the team? No doubt. But how many Buckeye games has it been now where Oden’s foul trouble is […]