Photo. Jonathan Mannion
With the season right around the corner, every team is making tweaks and roster moves. In Cleveland, Mike Brown said he wants to start putting LeBron in the post more often — which we were saying he needed to do before the Finals but took Brown until Game 3 to figure out. Not […]

Facing his first kinda/sorta NBA comp since the summer leagues, Yi Jianlian looked like a Lottery pick against the D-League “Ambassadors” at the Stankovic Cup tourney in China, dropping 28 points on dudes like Rick Rickert and Kevin Lyde. Yi was getting his on turnaround jumpers, scoring in the post and driving, and the home […]

Mike Conley Jr.
Getting closer and closer to the NBA Draft means it was another hectic day in (and out of) the Dime office. First up was Media Day with the green room guys: Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, the Florida trio, Mike Conley, Yi Jianlian, Jeff Green — everyone except Al Thornton, Brandan Wright and Nick […]

In the down time before the Finals, there’s been a lot of Draft talk in the office. And, no lie, we spent a good chunk of yesterday morning scanning the Orlando pre-draft camp “combine” results. The biggest story: Kevin Durant apparently wasn’t able to bench press 185 pounds one time. Not once. Now, this doesn’t […]

Will C-Webb be a Piston next season?
Aside from the Cavs and Spurs (Game 1 is Thursday in San Antonio), there are 28 other teams with nothing but the offseason to think about now: the draft, coaching vacancies, front-office holes to fill, free agents to sign and trades to make. One of the most active teams […]

You know what sucks? If (when) the Spurs go on to close out the Western Conference Finals, all we’re gonna hear about all summer is how the refs screwed the Jazz in Game 4. We’ll hear about San Antonio shooting something like 25 free throws in the fourth quarter while the Jazz made only two […]

Over-the-top opening montages, band geeks talking smack, Dick Enberg going on some weird rant about “hands” — the NCAA title game was on and poppin’ last night between defending champs Florida and (likely) one-year juggernaut Ohio State … Props to the Gators, who managed to get the W and the back-to-back chips (first team since […]