Although Bulls vs. Blazers — real life, not the suuuuper slooow-mo video game — turned into a match game between Ben Gordon and Brandon Roy for most of crunch time, the eventual heroes/goats ended up being the unlikely Jarrett Jack and Joe Smith. In double-OT, Jack got the go-ahead bucket when he converted a three-point […]

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 […]

Just when we thought we had a series, the Bulls decide to get generous and gift wrapped Game 3 for the Pistons at home. In the first half the Bulls were dominant; everyone was killing, from Luol Deng to Ben Wallace to Andres Nocioni. Even P.J. Brown was ballin’. Then, as color guy Mark Jackson […]

C-Webb’s crew looks like a Finals lock
What happened to that great Pistons/Bulls series we were expecting to get? It’s been back-to-back piecings so far, with the Bulls getting outclassed and made to look real young out there. Last night Detroit was up by 20 for stretches in the second half, Chicago would put in its […]

At the end of Bulls/Heat, play-by-play man Mike Tirico kept going on and on about how “shocking” it was that Miami got swept. While it’s obviously rare for the defending champs to get smoked in the first round, there wasn’t much shocking about this series. Miami’s best player isn’t 100 percent, the rest of the […]

So much was made about Kobe Bryant and how he would approach Game 2 of Suns/Lakers (”Is he gonna share or go solo?”) that everyone kinda forgot one thing: the Suns are really really good, and the Lakers are somewhere between “aiight” and “awful” when Kobe’s not bustin’ everyone’s ass. Last night Mamba only scored […]

Saturday was a long one for the Dime crew between the NBA playoffs and the Jordan Brand All-American Classic at MSG. In the JBAAC, the Yellow team beat the Royal team, 127-119, with Donte Greene (Syracuse) and Corey Fisher (Villanova) copping co-MVP. Mike was in the building, of course (sitting next to Ahmad Rashad), along […]