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While Shawn Marion makes his Heat debut on national TV against the Lakers, we’ll be concentrating on something else.
This may surprise you, but we’re calling NYC this afternoon to have an over-the-phone lunch with Stephon Marbury.
You see, he’s had like all these surgeries on his ankle (or maybe just one surgery), is out for […]

Kobe Bryant injuring his wrist should probably be the biggest winner of the What’s the Cavalier Gonna Write About Today? Award.
A logical runner-up would obviously be LeBron heading down to the low post more often FINALLY.
But no - not today. Neither of those lines of thought bring forth the mystical quality we so often strive […]

(Jack Cobra reporting for duty on Friday)
The Mike Bibby to the Cavs rumors aren’t dying just yet, but instead of feeding those rumors even more, I’m going to talk about a player the Cavs could actually get….Dajuan Wagner. Oh yeah, he’s available….again. Now, don’t go running to call up Danny Ferry, I’m sure he’s aware […]

Our heart jumped more when the Celtics came out of that envelope at #5 than at any time during the Cavaliers playoff run so far.
Wow.
There’s really not all that much one can say except, “Negative 439 Tommy Points to Mr. Karma!”
We can’t even make fun of those poor fans - pick #5 is […]

(Jack Cobra, Jack Cobra, Jack Cobra. I’m here on Fridays. Right above here it says that I wrote this. This is a reminder.)
When I sat down to map out the outline for this post I had initially planned on skipping talking about this game and going straight to my Bob Barker and The Price is Right monologue. […]

A lot of people like to rip on Isiah Thomas’s trades and free agent signings, and there’s good reason for that - most of them are horrible, and even the most rudimentary basketball fan can usually make that call immediately.
(To cite an extreme example of this, we were making jokes about Zeke trading for Steve […]

Big news for fans of coaches leaving their teams mid-season - Pat Riley is taking a break from the Miami Heat.
All signs say nobody knows why, but we’re 103% certain he’s simply tired of relying on a struggling Crisco Walker to be his primary scoring option.
Quick break in the action here - the other three […]

You don’t really want to need 29 points from Damon Jones to do it, but the Cavaliers won their game in NYC last night against Knicks.
The only other thing that really stuck out to us was LeBron meandering his way to 29 points of his own on over 50% shooting, which means we can’t […]

It seems the hot new trend in making announcements among NBA players is to do it via their websites.
Kobe talked about his knee on his earlier this week, and now Jalen Rose has made his choice of team public on his personal blog.
Oh yeah - he’s going to Phoenix, allegedly to win a championship, […]

Any of you who were around for the playoffs (06 edition) know that we developed a serious player crush on the Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas.
This was mainly because he has the guts to do things like take 35-foot game-tying three-pointers with time left on the clock, and make them, but also because he seemed like such […]