NBA
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Kelly Dwyer) —
For a player that came straight to the NBA from high school,Boston Celtic center Kendrick Perkins has always seemed like an old soul.Perhaps it's his game, all old school and bruising. Without its charms, butquite effective, and certainly worth his status as a one-time NBA champion andone of the more respected defenders in the NBA. Perkins wanted that second championship, though. And...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin) —
The marketing hook for NBA2K11 is Michael Jordan. Because he still sells. Jordan will be on the cover and inside the game will be eight vintage Jordan teams you can play.And a Ron Artest song.Artest's "Champion" is one of the...
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Kelly Dwyer) —
Here is a video clip of free agent center Shaquille O'Neal singing along to a Justin Bieber song (or, at least, what I think is a JustinBieber song; this is the first 71 seconds of Justin Bieber I've ever heard) atwhat appears to be a sound check before a Bieber concert in Phoenix. Yes, there are fans there, but often times artists willcharge their fans three or four times the price of a...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin) —
The Miami Heat are going to be a regular season force -- with little time to prepare for them (and there is little time in the regular season for teams) it will be hard to find and execute the little...
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Kelly Dwyer) —
I realize that this is barely hard news, but in the monthsince the free agency period has begun, this is where we're at on July 30th. Former AP scribe and current ESPN columnist Chris Sheridan - in a Tweet ,not a column - mentions that former journeyman point guard Mike James "AdmiresJazz org." Stuck up against the 140-character limit, Chris didn't even haveroom for...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin) —
Here's the conventional wisdom, the perception out there -- new Phoenix president of basketball operations Lon Babby will be calling the player personnel shots for the Suns, the general manager will be the guy doing the leg work.It was reported...
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Kelly Dwyer) —
In the month of March, last season, Chris Bosh averagednearly 22 points and nine rebounds a game in 36 minutes a contest. He shot arespectable 48 percent from the field, turned it over a less-than-so-so 2.9times a game, and blocked a miserable five shots in 14 games. In his twohealthy games in April, he put up a 28-point, 12-rebound game with sevenassists, and a 42-point, 13-rebound game...
ESPN: TrueHoop (Henry Abbott) —
I just happened across a two-year-old Wired article by Chris Anderson . It's not about sports, but you might want to read it anyway, because I think it tells us a lot about the future of, well, everything, including basketball analysis: Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Rob Mahoney) —
The LeBron-less Cleveland Cavaliers are now in that awkward place between contending and rebuilding, which forces them to fill out their roster with bargain bin veterans and a few young players for good measure. They'll fight for a playoff spot,...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin) —
When you sign a $100 million contract to be the centerpiece of the New York Knicks, even your summer vacations become news.Amare Stoudemire is in -- and is tweeting from -- Jerusalem, where he is studying religion. And because we...
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Kelly Dwyer) —
It used to be that you'd have to wait for the preseason,assuming those games were televised, to see what sort of shape your favoriteplayers were in following the offseason. Or, more specifically, "your favoriteplayers that could stand to lose a few pounds." But more often than not, you had to wait until the firstgames of the regular season to see where that body mass index rested....
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Rob Mahoney) —
Tracy McGrady and Shaquille O'Neal seem to be one in the same. Neither can get the role or money (or affirmation?) they so desperately covet, and each will likely face the same choice: play for a team they actually want...
NBCSports.com: ProBasketballTalk (Kurt Helin) —
Tim Thomas played just 18 games for Dallas last year - there was knee surgery at the start of the season and having to leave the team to tend to his ailing wife for the second half of the season.Thomas...
Yahoo.com: Ball Don't Lie (Dan Devine) —
Wednesday, ESPN created a tempest in the sports media teapot by removing from its Web site a Los Angeles columnist's chopstick-by-Chap Stick account of LeBron James and several associates partying during a recent trip to Las Vegas . Thursday afternoon, the company announced it would not republish the feature, despite the fact that the story in its original form remains widely available...