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On the day that Dirk Nowitzki is scheduled to receive his MVP trophy, Steve Nash and the PHX Suns are basking in the glow of a road win over the Spurs.
Said win brings their series to 2-2, re-establishing Phoenix’s home court advantage, and alleviates the possiblity of a ratings-challenged Spurs-Jazz Western Conference Finals, at […]

With all the complaining among the NBA’s best and worst players over the new roundie, David Stern has stated that they’ll do another round of testing on the thing, and that the old leather ball is still an option.
You’d think the 2 years of tests they’ve already done would’ve been plenty, but maybe an intensive […]

ESPN’s Marc Stein notes that the people at PETA are claiming that they’re the ones who instigated the new roundie all the players are up in arms about this preseason.
Also of note this afternoon is that Amare Stoudemire could now be out up to 2-3 more months. After hearing that on the PHX-Spanglonia Eurosocks broadcast, […]

(The EXPLOSIONS return, as there should be regular news and crap from here on…might be sporadic for the next few weeks, but here you go.)
Apologies go out to all for this feature being missing all summer - it means we didn’t always send you to stuff like this 80s Lakers anti-drug music vid.
Well, we […]

After seeing Kwame Brown’s reaction to the new roundie yesterday, we anticipate much more talk to come on this thing. We felt we needed to do some more research, and what we found is simply frightening.

Umm…yeah.

We don’t think we’ve ever even poked fun at MJ - the man was too big a shadow over our entire childhood.
But whatever - these pics were fun, and we’re a fun guy, and stories about Tiger Woods’ wife’s fake naked pictures are fun. Everything’s fun.

Again, the operative word here is fun. If one […]

‘Nique is finally getting inducted on the 8th here (along with Barkley, Dumars, and some people you don’t care about), and he’s taking the whole family along for the ceremony, as would be expected. Not so expected is the lack of airplanes involved.
They’re heading up to Springfield in the ol’ RV. Sekou Smith of […]

(We’ve often wondered how this site reads to those in other countries. Although not exactly what we were looking for, we were lucky enough to be contacted by a young man who runs a strikingly similar basketball blog in Europe to get his take on the USA’s failure to win gold in Japan. The […]

Well…that was unfun.
Team USA lost to Greece, our internal clock is all screwy from staying up to watch it, and infamous naysayer Chris Sheridan (of ESPN) is dancing on the line between smug I-told-you-so guy and martyr.
I’ve been waiting for two weeks to watch [Spain vs Argentina], looking to see which of those two […]

(Don’t read this if you haven’t watched it yet.)
This one followed the same template as most of the other games - it stayed close for awhile, then Team USA made a run of steals, causing our foreign opponents to crumble in fear. Dirk Nowitzki and Co. couldn’t keep up, and LeBron, et al are in […]