Dwight Howard (photo. Mannion)
Right after the final buzzer sounded and the Pistons had taken a 2-0 series lead on the Magic, we got a great camera shot of Stan Van Gundy spewing venom at a referee, screaming “That’s f***ing bulls***!” before storming off to the locker room. He could have been talking about a couple […]

Chauncey Billups (photo. adidas)
If you were pulling for the Sixers to at least make last night’s Game Six interesting, you didn’t want to get an e-mail like the one Jed sent out amongst the Dime crew during the first quarter, the one that read: “I’m not sure if Philly is going to score in this […]

Skip (photo. Jack Thompson)
Remember 4-5 years ago when Rafer Alston went from a journeyman to a legit NBA player? Balling with the Heat that year, Skip was able to shed the streetballer rep by protecting the ball and knocking down threes like he’d been watching Mark Price tapes. That version of Skip was the Skip […]

Photo. Chenoa Maxwell
If we know our readers, last night’s late League action got no burn on your TV. We’re going to guess that most of you were watching (and then mourning) the series finale of The Wire. Luckily the game of the day was the afternoon showdown between the Suns and the Spurs. Are these […]

The last time LeBron James was so heavily scrutinized going into a game, it was probably about five years ago when he made his national TV debut in high school. That was back when everyone wanted to see if the kid could play. Now we all know he’s the truth, but after Game 1 of […]

Gil needed Caron in N.C.
“If Caron Butler is done, the Wizards are done.” That’s what we said about Washington in our latest NBA Hit List, but we didn’t think the sans-Butler squad would look as terrible as they did last night, getting 20-pieced by the Bobcats. Gerald Wallace — who would have been Caron’s defensive […]