The photos below are so crazy, I can’t even post a thumbnail on the homepage. But with Halloween around the corner and the weekend starring me down, I had to post them nonetheless. Check out what Dennis Rodman looked like at Miami Rock Fashion Week after the jump: Read More »

My standout memory of Michael Jordan does have Byron Russell prominently involved — but it’s not the moment you’re thinking of.

We’re going back to Game 7 of the ‘96 Western Conference Finals, Jazz versus my Sonics. This was our year. Stockton and Malone weren’t willfully passing the Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside torch to Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp; Glove and Reign Man were TAKING it. The city had gone all-in for this squad. Three calendars after he’d recorded it for the ‘93 Sonics, Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Not In Our House!” was back on the radio. Read More »

The latest dispatch from Planet Ron-Ron rivals yesterday’s revelation of “I Cry For Mike.”

After signing a three-year, $18 million deal, he revealed that he’s changing his number from 96 to 37, because that’s the number of weeks that MJ’s “Thriller” topped the charts at No. 1. Read More »

Blake Griffin, the best player and biggest star in tomorrow’s NBA Draft, is a genuinely nice guy. But when he wants something, he will destroy anything in his path to get it.

*Reprinted from Dime #49*

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Blake Griffin looks out of place in a kitchen. Appliances aren’t made for 6-10, 255-pound incredible hulks, especially in University of Oklahoma student housing. Read More »

Even if Dennis Rodman’s final episode of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” hadn’t ended with him being fired and Donald Trump leading an awkward quasi-intervention with the rest of the cast about Rodman’s drinking, you could still easily predict The Worm’s next reality TV revival.

Rodman, 48, will be on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” a VH1 show airing sometime in 2010. Read More »

To clarify: Our NBA Fantasy Finals have nothing to do with the stat-driven “fantasy basketball” you play online. We’re taking NBA Finals teams throughout history and pitting them against each other to see what you think would happen. Assume both lineups are healthy, and the older team gets homecourt. Today it’s Mike vs. Larry and two of the greatest teams of all-time … Read More »

Yesterday we posted our first NBA Fantasy Finals matchup, pitting the ‘95 Magic (Shaq and Penny) against the ‘08 Lakers (Kobe and Kobe).

In case you missed it the first time, this has nothing to do with the stat-driven “fantasy basketball” you play online. We’re taking NBA Finals teams throughout history and pitting them against each other to see what you think would happen. Read More »

It’s strange how things worked out for Ron Artest, with him standing in the exact place everyone — and yet no one — expected him to be at the end of the 2009 season.

When Ron came to Houston last summer, you figured he would push his new team over the top. Getting past the first round was a given (no small feat given recent history); now the Rockets were in the thick of the championship race as a real contender after years of fake-contending. Essentially, they would be what Denver is now. Read More »

Following up all the drama and intrigue and controversy of Lakers vs. Rockets and Kobe vs. Ron-Ron and Derek Fisher’s shoulder vs. Luis Scola’s face, LeBron and the Cavs gave a long and kind of boring display — at the expense of the Hawks — that across-the-board domination can be pretty, well, boring. Cleveland has won every game this postseason by double digits, and the last four have been 20-piecings … Just like in Game One, LeBron (27 pts, 4 stls) tried to get the whole “competitive” part out of the way before halftime. Read More »

One of our boys just sent us this. Disclaimer - I have no idea what’s going on at the end of the video.