Every holiday season brings with it presents, family, good food, great desserts, lots of basketball, and also some amazing sneakers. This year is no different. From adidas to Nike to Jordan to Reebok Classics to everyone else, there will be some incredible sneakers debuting around this holiday season. Read More »

For as much work as Santa Claus put in last night, the sports world was undeniably quiet on Christmas Eve. Yeah, we were all busy watching Elf for the fifth time this week, and you were probably finishing off your seventh cheesecake of the holidays. But the NBA? College basketball? They were silent. We’re about a quarter of the way into the NBA season, and nothing is decided yet. Read More »

Damian Lillard is the best thing about Portland right now – and that includes its legendary breweries. It would be a big upset to see playoff basketball in the Rose City come May, but the rookie point guard is what is keeping that city’s hoops hopes from wilting altogether. Read More »

Swag can be defined in an almost infinite number of ways. It is an abstract term taken by some to mean confidence, skill or style. Most abstract concepts need to be applied in a consistent manner in order to have any relevance, but swag can’t be boxed in like that. It has to be different. It has to be infectious. Read More »

When you’re going good, or you hit a big-time shot, you want to celebrate. It’s human nature to express our joy when we’ve accomplished something incredible. Nowhere is this more true than the NBA, where big shots are often followed by big celebrations; where players can get so hot everything starts to go in, and where a last second shot can birth new legends. With all that drama, there are bound to be some incredible celebrating. Read More »

BUY LOW Dwyane Wade After almost a decade of brilliance, it looks like Wade’s game is slowly starting to decline. Right now, he’s averaging just 19.4 points (his lowest since his rookie season), 3.9 rebounds and 4.5 assists. Most of his past fantasy value had come from a guarantee for 100 steals and 100 blocks per season, but 17 games into Miami’s season, Flash has a measly 17 steals and nine blocks. Read More »

While I’m sure you can guess which dunk made the number one spot on this countdown from the past week, it wasn’t like Harrison Barnes‘ slam on Nikola Pekovic overshadowed everything else. Blake Griffin makes his annual appearance as does JaVale McGee, and so does Andre Iguodala, finishing what might’ve been his best play in Denver. Read More »

The Knicks rarely found themselves on the losing end of the turnover battle in their undefeated start to this season. They also never had someone so thoroughly at ease against their defense until Chandler Parsons‘ first half Friday. The Rockets forward upended the Jeremy Lin vs. Knicks/Raymond Felton narrative when he didn’t miss in the first quarter, knocking down his first eight shots en route to 26 points — in the first half. The Rockets torched the Knicks’ defense that had been at or near the top of league statistics for the season’s first two weeks for 131 points in a 28-point win. Read More »

JaVale McGee‘s much heralded “length” was the primary antecedent for Denver’s $44 million investment for 1/3 of their center experiment. Even though Kosta Koufos is said (by George Karl) to be the most fundamentally sound center in Denver’s three-headed rotation at the five spot, and Timofey Mozgov is excellent at getting dunked on, it’s McGee that has most of us enthralled, and it’s not just because he’s so eccentric (although that Elmo backpack deserves it’s own profile). Read More »

Getting your hands on young talent in the NBA is the equivalent to finding a $100 dollar bill on the ground. Some of it has to do with luck; some of it has to do with being in the right place at the right time. Once you get it, you contemplate whether or not to hang on to it for a while, or trade it in right away for something that will benefit you immediately (or hope it does). The amount of young talent floating around the NBA is at an all-time high, and some teams are fortunate enough to have more than one young gun. Read More »