A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Check this out – Rutgers University fired their men’s basketball coach Mike Rice after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players and using gay slurs during practice. I’m surprised no one ever decked the prick.
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A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Is there anyone better at just baptising dudes than Harrison Barnes? Here’s two more (here and here) to add to his collection.
* Andrew Bogut on the Barnes dunk in Toronto: “I didn’t see it properly because they wouldn’t show a replay for some reason. [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Here’s some NBA players (and a coach) looking completely ridiculous at the New York Fashion Week. And how about Chris Bosh’s Larry O’Brien championship trophy slippers!!
* Rajon Rondo is interning at GQ during the NY Fashion Week. The notoriously surly Rondo playing gofer [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Chris Bosh goes nuts with a bottle of champagne, spraying himself in crazy fashion.
* The Brooklyn Nets stoop to ‘Orlando Magic-type’ pathetic lows in order to persuade Deron Williams to re-sign this offseason. They parked a truck outside his apartment in Brooklyn wishing [...]

With someone as physically imposing and talented as LeBron James, backed up by two perennial All-Stars in Bosh and Wade, it would make sense that Miami be the unanimous favourite to take out the title in 2012… but that hasn’t been the case. For whatever reason, Miami have had their backs against the wall on [...]

Miami came out with a point to prove in the early going of game two, getting off to a red hot start and leading 18-2 after seven minutes of action. As always the Thunder bounced back and this was a closer game than it probably should have been down the stretch. Nonetheless we move on [...]

So the bracket has finally been resolved and we have our two finalists. It’s come as no real surprise that the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder will be the two teams battling it out for the hardware. It’s true, they play the games for a reason, but it was fairly obvious before the [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Sometimes these things just write themselves. Dirk Nowitzki on stage playing the tambourine. Gold!
* Get your Dwight Howard ‘loyalty’ T-shirt. And the best part – it’s no joke, the Orlando Magic had these printed and you can buy them on the team’s website. [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Ricky Rubio laying on the baggage carousel at an airport, watchin’ hoop. As you do.
* A ‘flop off’ between Manu Ginobili (who else) and James Harden in Game 1 of the WCF.
* Chris Kaman is one weird dude.
* LeBron taunts KG by [...]

Although I couldn’t see any way Indiana would be able to overcome the talents of Miami, I was suitably impressed with their efforts in a less than favourable matchup. Miami clearly weren’t at full strength after Chris Bosh went down with the abdominal strain, but LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were spectacular throughout the series, [...]