The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the most successful Division I basketball programs in the country. Year after year the Tar Heels have been able to assemble a cast of elite level amateur talents and are annually considered contenders for the coveted NCAA National Championship. They currently rank third all-time with five […]

With the expiration of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement on July 1, and negotiations stalled until August, many issues have been blamed for this lockout. One talking point in particular, however, could impact the careers of high school phenoms Andre Drummond and Shabazz Muhammad. While not the central concern of either side, the age limit which currently rules […]

With seven national championships under their belt, the University of Kentucky is home to one of the most storied programs in Division I college basketball. Over the past few seasons, while under the helm of recruiting guru John Calipari, they have been a serious threat to claim their eighth each year. Despite a series of early […]

With the NBA Draft set for this Thursday, the combine long gone and player workouts practically over, it becomes increasingly obvious that impressions have begun to take form. It’s an NBA mock draft fan’s dream. At this stage we know who the top prospects are, so all that is left to be determined is how […]

With the 2011 NBA Draft now just a few weeks away, teams and fans alike are scouring for every available resource to find out all that they can about any prospect that could fall into their range on the big night. There are few unknowns with players like Kemba Walker and Brandon Knight having spent […]

I find it important to say that I once loved Vince Carter. Just as anyone who has ever lived and died by their favourite sports team loves their team’s star player. It was a love made even more special as his arrival to the Toronto Raptors coincided with my birth into NBA fandom. I recall […]

Basketball, like life, is all about those few poignant moments that are miraculously able to overshadow all of the hard work, the sweat and the disappointment otherwise known as our everyday existence. It is the anticipation of such moments that motivates us to get up each morning and to keep trying; keep striving for some […]

With the finals for each respective conference quickly drawing to a conclusion and the championship round set to begin many diehard fans have been rendered average spectators. Our teams have long been eliminated (many of them from playoff contention months ago), leaving the hope of a championship to only those fans of a select four […]

In 2001, Atlanta made little known Spanish forward Pau Gasol the No. 3 overall pick in the NBA draft, and following his subsequent trade to the Grizzlies he soon garnered Rookie of the Year honours. Since then, guards Jose Calderon, Juan Carlos Navarro, Sergio Rodriguez, Rudy Fernandez, Raul Lopez, forward Jorge Garbajosa and Pau’s younger […]

The University of Kentucky boasts the winningest basketball program in the history of the NCAA. The Wildcats all-time percentage of .758 says it all; winning is everything. So, when second year head coach Billy Gillespie was dismissed following a .597 campaign (the worst Wildcat record since Basil Hayden’s squad went 3-13 in 1927) no one […]