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 […]

Dirk came through; Nash didn’t
We said it a couple days ago in our NBA Hit List player ranking: “These next two games is where we’ll see what kind of leader (Steve) Nash is. Right now you can’t tell if this is his team or Shaq’s.” So what happened in last night’s Suns/Spurs game? Nash had […]

Baron Davis (photo. Tim Tadder)
Watching the Warriors’ postseason hopes evaporate in Phoenix, there was only one question on everybody’s mind: Why isn’t Baron Davis playing? After a pretty awful first half (2-for-13 FG’s), Baron was on the bench and never played in the second half. It was originally reported as a “coach’s decision,” but most […]

Can’t handle the truth…
If the best anyone can do is nitpick a near 30-piecing, than we’d say Team USA is still doing alright. Mexico was the victim last night in another dunkfest (Kobe’s tomahawk on the one big man was crazy) to begin Phase 2 of pool play at the Olympic qualifying tournament. While the […]

What Venezuela’s PG dreamed about last night…
When the first possession of Team USA vs. Venezuela ended with Dwight Howard fumbling a rebound off his leg and out of bounds, how many of you had the “Oh no, not again” feeling in your gut? After that, though, it didn’t take long for reality to set in: […]

At least give the Celtics credit for thinking outside the box. With Operation: Put Some Decent Players Around the Big Three so far yielding a benchwarmer’s dream group of Eddie House, Scot Pollard and Jackie Manuel, the C’s surprised everyone yesterday when word came down that they’d been talking to Reggie Miller about a possible […]

After months of thinking it over — and coming off the heels of the annual uber-party that is Zo’s Summer Groove — Alonzo Mourning said he’s coming back for one more year with the Heat. A player of Zo’s age (37), stature (borderline Hall of Famer) and salary ($2.7 million) usually only comes back for […]

For at least two NBA teams, the (maybe it happened/maybe it didn’t) tank-job of 2007 will pay off, as both Kevin Durant and Greg Oden are now in the NBA Draft. News came down yesterday that Oden is leaving Ohio State along with fellow freshmen Mike Conley and Daequan Cook. Understandable call by Conley, who […]

Buckets-buckets-bong-bong
If anyone could take the focus off of Day Two of the Big Dance, it’s Kobe Bryant. Mamba dropped 65 POINTS on the Blazers in an overtime win, snapping L.A.’s seven-game losing streak and hitting the second-highest point total of his career on a ton of deep jumpers and threes. It was like watching a […]