Photo. Robyn Twomey
Has it really been FIFTEEN years since Chris Webber put on that Warriors cap on draft night (after he was traded for Penny Hardaway)? Our younger readers will one day learn that once you get into your 20s it seems every other day something makes you feel old, and of all the stuff […]

When Rip Hamilton drops major buckets on you, sometimes you don’t even notice how bad it is until you check the box score. Rip doesn’t blitz you with inhuman athleticism like LeBron (more on that later) or visibly impose his will on you like Kobe, and he won’t punctuate a big scoring night with a […]

Jamal Crawford (Photo. Stephen Hill)
Where the hell did that come from? If you had seen the Knicks’ previous game — Friday night’s loss to the Raptors where they got mercilessly gutted by Chris Bosh — and been reading the NY papers, it would appear as if everything was perilously close to completely falling apart: Zach […]

Rudy Gay (Photo. Tina Williams)
How did the Grizzlies lose to Unicaja Malaga yesterday? You could chalk it up to the Spanish pro team having more continuity and Memphis having a lot of new guys to break in. You could say it was because Malaga was basically playing a home game, while the Grizzlies had a […]

Easy, breezy … ugly for Team V.I.
Game 2 of Team USA’s FIBA Americas tournament run — a.k.a. The Slaughtering until further notice — was way less interesting than the opener. While the Venezuela game was a rout, too, it was at least worth watching because it was the first time we’d seen the ‘07 version […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
The summer leagues were cool, but you don’t know how hyped we all were to watch the Team USA scrimmage/exhibition game yesterday. Going in we weren’t sure what kinda vibe to expect, and we ended up getting a slightly more-spirited All-Star Game that got pretty intense at the end. Definitely not as lackadaisical […]

Some people we know were surprised to find out that “40 Games in 40 Nights” doesn’t mean there’s a game every night. With no playoff action to speak of Wednesday, all the NBA talk surrounded the Lottery and the upcoming Draft. It’s good to see there’s a legit debate going on over who the Blazers […]

That’s what Gilbert does…
Cats were complaining about there not being enough upsets and close games in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. So were Saturday’s second-round games good enough? No. 1 Ohio State was down by nine with 3 minutes left against Xavier, and when Greg Oden (14 pts, 12 rebs, 2 blks) fouled […]