A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* No, you aren’t imagining things – that is Blake Griffin wearing a St George-Illawarra Dragons jersey.
* Ben Simmons makes an impact for Montverde at the National High School Invitational.
* Kobe Bryant denies Will Barton at the rim. This guy!
* Brandon Bass [...]

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 [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* ESPN Australia/NZ is giving away two tickets to the 2013 NBA All-Star event, to be held in Houston, Texas in February. For a chance to win this money can’t buy experience select a seat in their virtual Facebook stadium. That’s a trip of [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Finally, a Robert Sacre compilation. I love this guy.
* If you haven’t seen it, here’s The Harrison Barnes’ Dunk. It’s gonna’ be hard to top that.
* More from Andrew Bogut on his injury situation.
* In his first game in China Tracy McGrady was [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Patty Mills will re-sign with the San Antonio Spurs (contract details are not yet known). Great news!
* Andrew Bogut’s ankle injury is healing nicely and he’s expected to be back on deck for the Warriors training camp in September.
* Blake Griffin with an [...]

Not a bad group.

There would be no chance of last year’s playoff failure repeating in San Antonio, with the Spurs completing a sweep of Utah despite a Jazz rally. Meanwhile, the thrilling Clippers-Grizzlies series took on another turn as the Clip Show snared a win on overtime against a gallant Grizzlies side, taking the series to 3-1 as [...]

“I don’t do treatment. I hate training rooms.”
- Portland’s Raymond Felton, when asked what kind of treatment he’d been receiving on his Achilles injury.
That’s got to be a contender for Quote of the Year, no?
“Either that or blow it in the club.”
- Wizards’ rookie Chris Singleton, on why he spent $10,000 on lottery tickets.
Yeah, we [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Carmelo Anthony has a huge (ugly) picture of himself hanging in his lounge room.
* Check out this Larry Sanders brain snap in Indiana.
* The boys over at Hardwood Paroxysm have an interesting take on the World Peace elbow. If you haven’t [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Andrew Bynum channels his inner JaVale McGee – he strangely tries to steal the ball from teammate Steve Blake in the dying seconds of their win over San Antonio (last week), in order to jack up a three. I mean, really? After all [...]