Photo. Chris Sembrot
Are the Lakers in trouble? Just a few days ago L.A. seemed unbeatable, but now after two straight losses to even up their series with the Jazz and Kobe’s back all of a sudden acting up, you have to wonder about them. Now that the honeymoon is over and the path to the […]

Carlos Boozer (photo. Jeffrey Salter)
Carlos Boozer returned to the land of the living on Friday, playing his best game in about six weeks and ruining any plans the Lakers had of pulling a “Fo, fo, fo and fo” on the ‘08 postseason. Booz slapped up 27 points and 20 boards as the Jazz handed L.A. […]

Kobe (photo. Chris Sembrot)
What excuse could the Lakers-haters use after yesterday’s display? Even against a well-coached team that actually plays team defense and doesn’t have any — as far as we know — significant internal locker-room strife or heart/balls issues, the Lakers looked as sharp as ever: Kobe Bryant (38 pts) was unstoppable, Pau Gasol […]

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 […]

Deron Williams (photo. Monte Isom)
Of all the Chris Paul vs. Deron Williams head-to-heads we have seen and will see over the years, last night’s won’t exactly go down in history. The Jazz got the win — which has kind of been the norm in the series so far — clinching the Northwest Division and proving […]

LeBron on #31
Some might disagree, but we think the Cavs did get better with its haul from the 11-player deadline deal. That said, they didn’t cover up all of their flaws, at least one of which came to light in Wednesday’s loss to the Celtics. While LeBron (26 pts, 8 rebs) struggled with his shot […]

Thursday night’s Pistons/Spurs matchup was big for both teams: Detroit was coming off of a frustrating (despite their attempts to downplay it) loss to the Celtics and an uninspired blowout at the hands of the Mavs, while the Spurs struggled through W’s over the Knicks and Clippers before dropping one to the Warriors this week. […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
“Are you f***ing serious?!?”
That was the general reaction over here when we heard the news out of Portland that Greg Oden will most likely miss the entire ‘07-08 season after having microfracture surgery on his right knee — and it was the same reaction we got from everyone who called wanting to know […]

Word is Dirk Nowitzki is going to win MVP next week, according to early reports throughout the national media. The recent playoff ouster looks bad on Dirk and makes it kinda embarrassing that he’ll be presented the trophy at a press conference instead of at a postseason game, but you can’t say you have too […]