All-Star Reserves Headlined by Championship-Winning Veterans and Five Newcomers
10Feb2012The 2012 NBA All-Star Game will include an interesting mixture of the old and the new. On Thursday the league announced the seven All-Star reserve players for each conference. Finals MVPs Dirk Nowitzki (2011) and Paul Pierce (2008) are All-Stars for... more ...
- Mentions: Andre Iguodala, Chris Bosh, LaMarcus Aldridge, Luol Deng, Marc Gasol, Roy Hibbert
Kobe Bryant Moves Past Shaquille O'Neal on the All-Time Scoring List
7Feb2012Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 28 points in a game-high 44 minutes on Monday night as his L.A. Lakers lost 95-90 to the Philadelphia 76ers. Along the way, Bryant moved past his former teammate Shaquille O'Neal into seventh place on the career ABA/NBA... more ...
- Mentions: Kobe Bryant
Which Players Should Be Selected as All-Star Reserves?
6Feb2012The starters for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game were officially announced last Thursday and the fans, as usual, did a solid job of picking worthy candidates. Now it is up to the league's coaches to fill out the All-Star rosters for each conference by sel... more ...
- Mentions: Chris Bosh, LaMarcus Aldridge, Luol Deng, Russell Westbrook
Should Fans Select the All-Star Starters?
5Feb2012Every year around this time, the NBA All-Star starters are announced and someone--often it is Charles Barkley--delivers a rant about how terrible it is that the fans choose the All-Star starters. The All-Star voting process is obviously subjective ev... more ...
- Mentions: Dwight Howard, Grant Hill, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Vince Carter, Yao Ming
Greatest Sports Legends: Julius Erving
4Feb2012Before ESPN and before the internet, sports fans had simpler--yet, in many ways, just as fulfilling--ways to learn more about their favorite players. The syndicated program Greatest Sports Legends--created by Berl Rotfeld and later produced by his so... more ...
- Mentions: New York Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, Virginia Squires
Echoes from Laettner's Shot Still Reverberate 20 Years Later
3Feb2012Gene Wojciechowski's new book The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball meticulously details the circumstances and aftermath of Christian Laettner's game-winning shot against Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA East Reg... more ...
- Mentions: Grant Hill
McDonald's Selects 35th Anniversary All American Team
1Feb2012In honor of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the McDonald's All American High School Boys Basketball Game, the McDonald's All American Games Selection Committee created a list of the 35 greatest McDonald's All Americans. More than 800 players have be... more ...
- Mentions: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James
Post Lockout NBA Basketball...It's Not Fantastic
29Jan2012Numbers often lie--particularly when they are taken out of context--but more than one fourth of the way through the truncated yet overstuffed 2011-12 NBA schedule the numbers confirm what the "eyeball test" says: post lockout NBA basketball is not fa... more ...
Who Are the Five Best Power Forwards in the NBA?
24Jan2012ESPN's Friday NBA Countdown show went completely off the rails when Jon Barry failed miserably to do something that should not be that complicated: list the five best power forwards in the NBA. There is certainly plenty of room for debate on this sub... more ...
- Mentions: Blake Griffin, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, LaMarcus Aldridge, Pau Gasol
Kobe Bryant Versus LeBron James: The Non-Rivalry Rivalry
20Jan2012The Kobe Bryant-LeBron James head to head rivalry is unlikely to be remembered as one of the great battles in NBA history; the only thing that could turn this around is if they face each other at least once in the NBA Finals but after James blew two... more ...
- Mentions: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Miami Heat
