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General / Apr 28, 2008 / 12:28 pm

Step Your Game Up

Josh Howard (photo. Monte Isom)
For the teams facing playoff elimination, these guys need to come through if they want to stay in the mix…
Josh Howard — Everyone’s talking about the Chris Paul/Jason Kidd matchup, but Howard is really hurting the Mavs. He’s averaged 12.8 points a game this series on 25% shooting from the floor.
Carmelo […]

General / Apr 25, 2008 / 6:33 pm

D-League Diaries: Idaho Stampede

Luke: Jackie Moon of the D-League
The decisive Game 3 of the D-League championship will tip-off tonight (NBA TV, 9:30 p.m. EST) between the Austin Toros and the Idaho Stampede. Before the game I got a few minutes with Luke Jackson and Josh McRoberts of the Stampede, two guys playing in the D-League under very different […]

Video / Mar 25, 2008 / 9:58 am

Gerald Wallace: Runnin’ Rebel

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The following story appears in Dime #39 (March 2008)…
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
“I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.” – Michael Jordan
For Gerald Wallace, the […]

All Star / Feb 16, 2008 / 2:32 am

Media Day: Kobe, Kidd, Wade, etc.

Kobe
Random photos from All-Star Media Day at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans. Both the All-Star rosters, plus the Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout and Shooting Stars participants were on-hand. Check out the highlights of Media Day HERE. Have fun adding your own captions.
D-Wade
G-Money
Jamario Moon
J-Kidd
Kobe
LeBron
The Truth
Peja
Rudy
Duncan

Hoopla, All Star / Feb 5, 2008 / 10:29 am

Moon Shot

Jamario Moon, like Rudy Gay, has been doing his thing on YouTube in preparation for this month’s dunk contest. This popped up yesterday (we spotted it on TrueHoop):

A little hokey, a little corny; but whatever makes the dunk contest more interesting is cool with us.

All Star / Jan 31, 2008 / 8:53 am

Rookie Challenge ‘08 - S.O.S.?

Daniel Gibson
Remember the NBA’s first All-Star Weekend rookie game? OK, I only barely do myself. Back in ‘94 — the same season Hakeem led the Rockets to the championship while winning League MVP and Defensive Player of the Year — the debut rookie game was known as the Phenoms versus the Sensations, and featured youngsters […]

Hoopla / Jan 22, 2008 / 8:51 am

Throw it DOWN, Big Fella!

The next Larry Nance? (Photo. Mannion)
Every year the NBA rolls out its roster of All-Star Weekend dunk contest participants, and every year people complain because Kobe, LeBron, Vince and other big-name superstars aren’t included. I used to be part of that crowd myself, until I accepted that we’re most likely never going to get a […]

Fantasy Doctor / Nov 30, 2007 / 10:39 am

Daily Fantasy

TJ Ford (Photo. Eriberto Oriol)
Leave your fantasy hoops questions in the comments section and I will do my best to answer them all…
The Raptors - The Rap’s are a walking wounded bunch. TJ Ford, Chris Bosh, and Andrea Bargnani are all day-to-day. Bargnani seems closer to playing than does Bosh and TJ Ford is still […]

Smack / Nov 26, 2007 / 5:02 am

Identity Crisis

Photo. Jeffery Salter
Part of the Pistons’ identity is that no one man out of their core group is any more valuable than the other, but yesterday they were hurting without Rasheed (knee) in the lineup. Having to use McDyess and Maxiell to stick Carlos Boozer, Detroit was helpless. Booz did whatever he wanted inside, putting […]