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The Answer is China?

One of the most prominent basketball players in the world over the past decade is sitting at home without any interest from a single NBA team.  How can a 4-time scoring champion, 2-time NBA All-Star MVP, and former league Most […]

Newest members of “Club Gold”

As television analysts and print journalist scrutinized the youth and inexperience of Team USA with “Hater-ade” in their cup, Team USA worked harder than ever under head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Team USA grew up and matured, on the court, right […]

Team USA strikes FIBA Gold

The FIBA World Championships came down to a matchup between Turkey and USA with an automatic bid to the 2012 Olympics at stake. Turkey, led by Hedo Turkoglu, was coming off their thrilling win in the semifinals against Serbia, 83-82. […]

Radio hosts call out Magic

Courtesy of Yahoo! Sports: MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Magic Johnson criticized a pair of talk show hosts Friday for accusing him of faking AIDS but said he didn’t want them to be fired. Chris Baker and Langdon Perry of KTLK in Minneapolis made […]

Recap: Blazers fall to Golden State

From Yahoo! Sports: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—Kelenna Azubuike scored 18 points, all in the second half, and Brandan Wright added 16 points and the Golden State Warriors defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 110-95 Wednesday night. Portland center Greg Oden, the first […]

Catching a glance at Greg

I will (hopefully) be at the Portland Trail Blazer game tonight and have a chance to see Oden first hand. It definitely plays to his favor – in the eyes of the fans – that he won the tip off […]

Oden’s debut a good one

Anne M. Peterson of the AP writes: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)-Greg Oden announced his delayed arrival to the NBA with a dunk two minutes into the preseason. Oden debuted to a standing ovation, as did the rest of the young Portland […]