A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Here’s a revelation – Michael Jordan’s trainer says he was poisoned for the ‘Flu Game’.
* Tim Duncan winds back the clock with two huge dunks against the Lakers.
* Dirk shaves the beard. Dammit!
* Harrison Barnes drops the hammer on Aron Baynes. Welcome to [...]

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 [...]

For me, it’s the most perplexing thing in basketball today – that is, why a good post player rarely plays/is rarely used in the post.
Two things about post play: one, when you set up in the post you’re closer to the basket which should therefore create an easier shot; and two, a good post player [...]

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.
* Dirk Nowitzki plays cat and mouse with a Kings security guard.
* An interesting article on Aron Baynes.
* Some awesome dunks over the past week: Ish Smith (!!), Jeff Green, Taj Gibson, J.J. Hickson and J.R. Smith.
* More from Ish Smith – this time [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Kyrie Irving was really enjoying the festive season, until this got out….
* Kevin Durant destroying the Mavs.
* A Ricky Rubio blanket?
* Kobe rocks the fur on Christmas Day. Sheesh.
* Hardwood Paroxysm break down the Avery Johnson firing in Brooklyn. Let’s cut through the crap [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* David Lee tells Blake Griffin to “stop flopping!”.
* Lamar Odom mistakenly calls himself a Los Angeles Laker. This dude’s a mess.
* Andrew Bogut: “the ankle is still a work in progress”.
* This is hilarious – Dirk Nowitzki sings ‘Born in the USA’.
* Brandon [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Andrew Bogut’s left arm is longer than his right arm. Freaky.
* Luxury taxes mean squat to Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov; he’s known to make $20-30 million PER DAY!
* Man of God (and husband and father) Mark Jackson has been caught with his hand [...]

“Just to be clear with everyone that are asking where I’m playing next year, I have a lot of work to do before I think about a team!”
- Jermaine O’Neal on Twitter.
No one gives a shit, Jermaine.
”At that time, that could have hurt me being loyal. But a lot of times, I don’t think about [...]

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. [...]