A.I. on Dime’s 2005 Collector’s Issue
Ask any top-level defensive stopper — be it Kevin Garnett or Bruce Bowen or Ron Artest or Gary Payton — and they’ll tell you that playing tough defense ultimately comes down to effort and desire. So when an ultra-talented offensive team like the ‘07-08 Denver Nuggets run risk of missing […]

Chris Paul (photo. Mannion)
For 47 minutes of Hornets/Magic, Peja Stojakovic was having such an off night that the Orlando announcers were questioning Byron Scott for even having him on the court in crunch time. But that didn’t stop Peja from stepping up with about a minute to go and hitting the go-ahead three-pointer on a […]

Kobe (photo. Chris Sembrot)
Most of the time, DeShawn Stevenson is just “a guy” on an NBA court: decent defender, decent shooter, gets buckets sometimes. If he didn’t have all the tats and the Che Guevara beard, he’d be Devin Brown with more hops. But the line DeShawn up against either one of the two best […]

Photo. Chenoa Maxwell
If we know our readers, last night’s late League action got no burn on your TV. We’re going to guess that most of you were watching (and then mourning) the series finale of The Wire. Luckily the game of the day was the afternoon showdown between the Suns and the Spurs. Are these […]

Kobe (photo. Chris Sembrot)
The costumes and the set were the same, a lot of the actors were different, and Lakers/Kings almost re-created the same drama last night that they used to produce in the first half of this decade. Arco was rockin’ like it was 2002, as the home team grabbed the lead early and […]

Photo. Mannion
Way back last Friday during NBA All-Star Media Day — which honestly feels like it was a week ago — one reporter was going around asking various All-Stars what they would do to fix an All-Star Game that usually hasn’t competitive. Tim Duncan gave the best answer when he deadpanned, “I can’t answer that […]

S-Jack (Photo. Eriberto Oriol)
With Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson sharing the court, the Insane-O-Meter at Oracle Arena was in danger of going on overload. The damage wasn’t too bad: Ron-Ron picked up a technical foul in the first half, and S-Jack probably should have gotten one when he went temporarily ballistic on ref Violet Palmer […]

Raja Bell (Photo. Brandon Sullivan)
The Suns are rolling right now. Since last week’s loss to the Clips, when they got fricasseed by Sam Cassell, Phoenix has run off four straight W’s: they pieced the Lakers on national TV, smacked the Wolves and Nets with little trouble, and last night mounted a fourth-quarter comeback to take […]