A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Kanye West caught ogling the New York Knicks’ cheerleaders. Can’t blame him. Not sure Kimmy K would approve though.
* Some dude sitting courtside tries to put two fingers up Marc Gasol’s butt. I’m serious.
* Former NBA string bean and washout, Keith Closs, rocks [...]

The NBA has too many teams.
There. I’ve set out the basic premise of this article in the very first line.
Last time, I discussed the problem of market size in the NBA. Part of the reason this is a problem is that the NBA simply over-expanded over the years, which has also served to dilute the [...]

Just as he did a couple of seasons ago, Tizzle is back to look at the most likely headlines awaiting us in 2010-2011. Read all about it!

1. Carmelo Anthony Suits Up For NY
His intentions were clear before, after a summer of Broadway flirtation, but now they are 100% obvious. Amar’e took one step closer to [...]

Greetings, gentlemen and ladyboys. Today I come to you not from the glitz and glamour of South Beach, the sunshine and G-strings of the Gold Coast or even from amongst the skanky delights of my home city’s own Kings Cross.
Instead, I come to you from my family’s apartment, right under the Sydney Airport flight path [...]

Ant may have got all the sexy first round match-ups out West, but I’ve got the two biggest Finals contenders right here baby. Beasts of the East.
1st Cleveland Cavaliers vs 8th Chicago Bulls
A few weeks ago I was reflecting on Cleveland’s playoff run last season. It was a bittersweet run for me. Bitter, because the [...]

It’s late October so you know what that means. Every basketball website /blog /magazine /podcast on the planet feels the need to look at every team and try to predict what’s going to happen in 08-09. Here at NBAMate we thought we’d do things a little differently. Rather than look at each team and try [...]

The 2007 NBA Draft started predictably, and then went a little crazy. The two big guns, Oden and Durant went #1 and #2 as expected, but the rest didn’t exactly go according to plan. What happened to the big draft-day trades for KG and Amare? How did Yi Jianlian, the supposed under-done softy small-forward go [...]