According to the Associated Press (via ESPN): The NBA postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games Friday because it has not reached a new labor deal with players. NBA Logo The NBA owners have locked out the players, and little progress has been made in negotiations. ESPN.com Topics keeps you up to date [...]
Use your best Mike Breen voice when you read the above title. Though I could just have easily have gone with, “What’s next, Rony Seikaly and Michelle Bachmann?” or, “Glen Rice never could stop anyone from scoring!” or even, “Sarah Palin and an overrated, volume-shooting small forward walk into a bar…” Pun-tastic headlines notwithstanding, for [...]
Just a brief reminder that, somewhere, dudes — and in some cases our dudes — are still playing basketball. Yesterday marked the kickoff of the Impact Basketball Las Vegas Summer League, which is expected to include upwards of 70 current pro players. Team D will in effect be Knicks West for the next few days, [...]
This is what we’ve been reduced to. With the NBA labor situation still in a tenuous teeter, and with the interwebs already plush with reams of creative, clever, and compelling distractive fodder, content angles – at least original ones – tend to dry up right quick. Which is why, after a lot of thought… Let [...]
Today NBA Player Union Representative, and part time Knick-guard, Roger Mason Jr. tweeted: Looking like a season. How u A few minutes later he followed that up with: Someone just hacked my account. I did not say its looking like a season! and I’m sitting here wondering why my phone is ringing off the hook [...]
For your typical NBA player entering the third year of his rookie contract, having a half-dozen or so go-to hangouts, avoiding arrest, getting to work without a GPS, and not being shipped to Bismarck, North Dakota would make for a pretty admirable list of accomplishments. Toney Douglas can probably check off all of these things. [...]
It’s great to see NBA players keeping active during the lockout. With almost no progress made in labor talks thus far, professional leagues across the country have had to schedule their own games. Two of the most prominent leagues this Summer have been the Melo League in Baltimore and the George Goodman League of Washington [...]
