Vacation’s over for T-Mac and the sizzling Rockets.
Monday was the NBA’s day off, as everyone was traveling and/or recouping from All-Star Weekend in New Orleans. Of course, if you were checking DimeMag.com throughout the weekend, you know we had everything covered … A few airport sightings on our respective flights back to New York. Pat […]

Who’s bad? (Photo. G. Land)
This time one year ago, Heat/Wolves at least would have been worth watching for the superstar factor: Shaq, D-Wade, Garnett. This year it was basically a battle for Worst Team in the League, and Miami lost (or won, depending on how you look at it). Rock bottom came with about two […]

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 […]

The Spurs had no business winning that game last night, and yet they’ve got Cleveland in a 3-0 “Million Dollar Dream” sleeper hold because the Cavs couldn’t shoot, Anderson Varejao joined the Earnest Byner Memorial Hall of Fame, and Mike Brown borderline shouldn’t be coaching at this level … Seriously, Brown couldn’t have been worse […]

Year after year, series after series, the Spurs keep getting it done in the same fashion. Take last night’s Game 1 win: it might as well have been a replay of game film from the ‘05 title team or the ‘03 squad. All the preparation Cleveland undoubtedly did, and Tim Duncan (24 pts, 13 rebs, […]

Are the Cavs really in danger of winning this thing? Like everyone else, we had the Pistons cakewalking to the Finals as soon as the Cleveland/Jersey series wrapped, but now we’re even at 2-2 and the Cavs have all the momentum headed to Detroit for Game 5 … Since it seems judging LeBron’s clutch-ness on […]