J-Kidd (photo. Jordan Hollander)
Sometime during the end stages of the Mavs joining the Dub Club (a.k.a getting 20-pieced) in New Orleans, this e-mail came through from one of the Dime crew: “Chris Paul, you’re under arrest for the murder of Jason Kidd.” That was cold, but you saw the numbers: 32 points and 17 assists […]

Lamar’s chillin’ for L.A.’s next game.
(Photo. Tim Tadder)
No NBA games on the schedule yesterday, since everyone knows New Year’s Day belongs to college football. To kick off 2008, though, we’ve got a brand-new NBA Hit List power ranking for you. Not much has changed at the bottom — Al Jefferson and Zach Randolph’s squads are […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
Just when you thought the Cavs were better than mediocre, reality stepped in. More accurately, the Mavs stepped on Cleveland’s neck. LeBron didn’t even take a shot for most of the first quarter, yet Cleveland stayed in the game partly due to his passing. On one play ‘Bron had it on the block […]

The more we look at the Ricky Davis/Antoine Walker trade, we have to wonder: What did Ricky do so wrong to make Minnesota want to dump him for ‘Toine — who might get bought out and never even play for them — and 1.5 big men? (The 0.5 is for the half season Wayne Simien […]

Photo. Stephen Hill
Why do we have a feeling that from here on out, you won’t see many guys actually get cut from Team USA? Last year Gilbert Arenas pulled the “You can’t fire me — I quit!” thing when it looked like he probably wasn’t gonna make the World Championship roster, and now it’s Kirk […]

At some point during last night’s montage of flagrant fouls, it dawned on us that the Warriors are like a hybrid of the Bad Boy Pistons and the circa-2000 Blazers, and Stephen Jackson is officially the new Rasheed Wallace. GS even have their own crushing inbounds turnover (a la Bird stealing Isiah’s inbounds) to think […]

Following that Game 3 disaster, the Bulls actually held onto a lead yesterday, keeping the Pistons away and avoiding the sweep. When Chicago was up by 9 with about four minutes left, did you think they were safe? We didn’t. We were waiting for a couple ‘Sheed threes or Chauncey jumpers, and next thing you […]

The Warriors are like a better version of the Bobcats. You know how Charlotte — in between making a legitimate run at Greg Oden/Kevin Durant — has managed to consistently knock off some of the better teams in the League? Golden State is doing the same thing, having beat the Mavs a couple weeks ago […]