A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* DeSagana Diop earns $7 million per year (I am not lying) to play basketball. Keep that in mind as you watch this footage.
* Sports Illustrated’s Zach Lowe takes issue with the notion that Andrew Bogut is ‘injury-prone’.
* J.R. Smith’s sister gets [...]

So it’s a little belated, but it’s only fair that our most recent inductee into the NBAMate Wall of Fame has a proper welcoming ceremony.
It was on May 25 2011 when I made the above Tweet, just after the Mavs had pulled off a 112-105 OT win against Oklahoma in the Western Conference Finals. Dirk [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* The Charlotte Observer reports that Baron Davis is recovering from a “herniated d*ck”.
* A few laughers from The Basketball Jones – A ‘flop-off’ in Chicago, and KG gets testy with a cup of water.
* Andrew Bynum “was pulled over by the police [...]

It’s that time of the month folks, when I chime in with 10 observations from the previous month’s action. Let’s get straight into it.

1.         It’s All On LeBron

Dirk was legendary and the Dallas team was collectively brilliant, but let’s be realistic. If LeBron James shows up, or even just matches his averages, the Miami [...]

I deliberately waited a couple of days to write this post, because I didn’t want to be guilty of the immediate overreaction that so much of the NBA media and its fans have been spewing forth. “Lebron has destroyed his legacy”… “Lebron is more Pippen than Jordan”… “Dirk is a top-20 player all time”… This [...]

So often a Game 5 is the defining game in the Finals, which contains the make-or-break moment where the game – and the entire series – could have gone either way. We may look back on this Game 5 in the exact same way. The Mavs were the better team all day, and enjoyed a [...]

Because I had to go and buy League Pass this morning. So y’all better appreciate this shit.
In the end, it was like the previous two games – not that brilliant from a pure basketball standpoint, but drama aplenty. More discussion after the points.
3 Points – Tyson Chandler. The Mavs won this game on the back [...]

“Resilient “is the best way I can sum up this performance by the Miami Heat. A tough win in a hostile environment after a heart-breaking loss. A game where the Heat only got 17 points from Lebron. A game where Dirk Nowitzki threatened to take over as he has done so many times this post-season. [...]

I watched the first three quarters of this game live yesterday, then, thinking Miami had it sealed up, put it on record to go do some work. Boy, was that a mistake.
When I finally got around to watching the rest of the game I realised a couple of things.
1) Miami still can’t close games with [...]

So it wasn’t the most memorable Finals game. The shooting was woeful (both teams shot below 40% from the field) and the pace was slow. In fact, for the first 45 minutes or so I thought it was one of the most boring games I’d seen all playoffs. Completely unremarkable in every way. But then [...]