The USA men’s national basketball team will be rocking some new gear to wear as they dunk on international opponents’ faces at the FIBA World Championships this summer.
Don Nelson solidified his place amongst the NBA coaching elite tonight as he claimed his 1,332 win, tying him for first all-time with Lenny Wilkins. Nelson’s all-time coaching record is now 1,332 wins and 1,060 losses.
The Milwaukee Bucks continued to jostle for optimal playoff seeding on Saturday night as they grabbed a win against the Phoenix Suns. And while they are only a half-game out of the fifth-seed in the East, their playoff expectations might already be hopeless before the postseason even begins.
Late in the first half of Saturday night’s [...]
Amidst the All-Star action going on tonight, the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks were wheeling and dealing. The result of their efforts was a power-shifting seven-player trade. The Wizards have agreed to send Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson to the Mavericks in exchange for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinton Ross and James Singleton.
This [...]
I’m as stunned to be posting the second Corey Brewer “Nightly Noise” post as you likely are reading it. You may remember Brewer threw down one of the best dunks of this season, but his highlight tonight is beyond amazing. After Houston’s Carl Landry made just one of two free-throws to put the Rockets up [...]
Wizards’ coach Flip Saunders on his team’s questionable shot selection (from Wizards Insider):
“I’ll say this, in all my years in coaching — 15 years in the NBA and the CBA, college — I have never yelled at a player for taking bad shots in a game — until this year,” Saunders said. “It’s a catch-22. [...]
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the vintage Kobe Bryant heroics we saw this evening. The Milwaukee Bucks forced an overtime game against the top-dog Los Angeles Lakers, and even had them at their mercy during the extra period. Up by four points with less than a minute left to go, Bryant drew a [...]
quick look around the league at some of the notable NBA quotes of the day:
Dirk Nowitzki on his thoughts on potentially opting out of his contract to sign another long-term contract before the league’s collective bargaining agreement expires in the summer of 2011 (from NBA FanHouse):
“I’ve always said it wouldn’t feel right if I [...]
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