A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* What I wouldn’t give to see Dirk Nowitzki cultivate a Harden-esque beard.
* Grantland with a terrific feature on Andrew Bogut – ‘How an Emerging Andrew Bogut Could Be the Playoff Difference for the Warriors’. They’re certainly singin’ from the same hymn sheet that [...]

I’ve got to get my hands on one of these bad boys.

It’s coming folks. The flashes are there, now we just need consistency. He’ll get there.

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* This may be one of the strangest things you will ever see on a basketball court. A coach in France tries to strip the ball away from an opposing player in the dying seconds of a tied game. And after receiving a tech, [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* After showing his appreciation for each ref (above), Larry Sanders was promptly ejected. Never change, Lar’.
* Brook Lopez gives the business to his useless twin brother Robin.
* Dwight Howard to an Orlando Magic fan: “Your mama liked me last night”. He went overboard [...]

Nice.

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Tom Ziller from SBNation crushes this nonsense about the Warriors being better off without Bogut.
* Dwight Howard with a huge block on Robin Lopez to preserve the win over New Orleans.
* A fan steals a towel right off Kobe’s back. So, what does [...]

There are going to be plays like that where, individually for him, his mind is going to be, ‘I’m close to being back’. For our guys, it was a ‘wow’ moment. Because we haven’t seen it. Because we’re expecting it. We know who he is. We know what he’s capable of doing. For him to [...]

A word of advice – don’t listen to this BS that has started to filter through about the Warriors supposedly being better off without Andrew Bogut on the floor. I am not just being a homer here, but I think if you can’t recognise the value of a player like Bogut then you aren’t watching [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Andrew Bogut is fed up with the Warriors’ defense and pulling no punches in identifying where the problem lies. And some people don’t like it.
* A Dallas Mavericks dance video. Ah, Dirk Nowitzki dancing is always a special treat.
* Russell Westbrook doesn’t [...]