David Stern officially joined the NBA in 1978, and in 1984 became the league’s fourth commissioner. In his quarter century tenure, Stern presided over an NBA that has evolved into a global force exceedingly more powerful than it was when he started — and by extension, worth many more billions. A lawyer by trade, he has built a […]

Michael Beasley is better than Kevin Love at rebounding… on his Xbox. This was among the things that Beasley shared with the Minneapolis-based CBS affiliate WCCO-TV last March. “My favorite thing from my childhood is video games. I play NBA 2K11 now. I play with the Minnesota Timberwolves and I shoot every shot with myself, so that’s my favorite thing to do. […]

While the gossip magazines see New Jersey Nets power forward Kris Humphries as a combination mannequin-slash-boy toy in his upcoming nuptials to high-profile fiance Kim Kardashian, basketball fans who’ve been able to see through the sheen of his reality TV queen have witnessed a nimble 6’9″ veteran emerge as a legitimate power forward force in the […]

Over the past weekend, Shaun White and Travis Pastrana were busy adding to their own legends at the 17th annual X-Games in Los Angeles, California. The popularity of the X-Games has grown steadily since they began in 1995. Sponsorship for and attention towards the ESPN-owned mega-event has skyrocketed, throwing once-called “extreme” sports into the mainstream […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are coming off their least successful season in half a decade. With the greatest head coach of all time making his supposed victory lap, the two-time defending champions came up way short of expectations. Things were especially ugly at the end, with the Lakers squeaking past the New Orleans Hornets only to be […]

There’s a messy, tragic scandal brewing in the quote-unquote world of “amateur” basketball. It involves AAU coach David Salinas, who allegedly ran a Ponzi scheme that cost a number of NCAA basketball coaches millions of dollars, before being found shot dead of an apparent suicide at his Friendsworth, Texas home on July 19. Salinas operated an AAU basketball program in Houston, Texas, […]

A short time ago, “playing internationally” was something that Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady did in Toronto, or something that Steve Francis wouldn’t do in Vancouver. Nowadays, the phrase means something else entirely as people have realized there are decent professional basketball leagues on other continents. To NBA players the idea of playing overseas has […]

Week 3 of the NBA lockout begins just as the last, with mudslinging back and forth while zero negotiations actually take place. David Stern is a lawyer by trade, and this is important information to remember as the proceedings of this lockout are played out slowly, methodically and painfully. While the NBA squabbled with a New York Times report that doubted […]

I like to think that when Anthony Mason watches an NBA game that has taken place in the last decade, he recoils in horror in the same way that the ghosts of James Dean and Steve McQueen recoil when Leo DiCaprio fires up the Prius to pick-up vegan scones and a cafe au lait. The […]

Welcome to Week 2 of the NBA Lockout. As a matter of principle, I figured we might as well start counting it in terms of weeks rather than days. My fellow NBA fans, we have a lot to cope with, so let’s take it easy on ourselves and avoid the more complex math. Of all the […]