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 [...]

It’s no secret that superstars matter in the NBA. If your team has a superstar-caliber player, odds are they have a much better shot at winning a title than a team that doesn’t. However, as the league’s SuperTeam era continues into this season and has a new member in the LA Lakers, now with Steve [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Dwight Howard took out a full page ad in an Orlando paper to thank the city and it’s fans – “Words cannot express the love that I have for Orlando” was his best line. This guy has no idea. I’d imagine that [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* The picture above tells the story. And here’s another one. Gold!
* Why doesn’t Team USA stay in the Olympic Village? Here’s one reason why.
* Team USA takes a nap.
* Following on from last week, TrueHoop makes the case for Carmelo Anthony moving to [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Amar’e Stoudemire will pay Hakeem Olajuwan 100k for two weeks of ‘post play’ tutelage during the summer. That’s a hefty sum but considering that LeBron James emerged from a similar session last year with a post game in tow, it’s clearly worth it. [...]

Not a bad group.

“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 [...]

It’s only a matter of time.
Since the most eventful NBA off-season (2010) that I’ve ever witnessed in my life, every NBA fan looked at the newly formed Miami Heat, either with wide-eyed amazement or with pure disgust, and uttered those words at some point along the journey.
You couldn’t assemble three Franchise players, including two [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* And you thought Russell Westbrook had weird taste in clothing. New York Knick Tyson Chandler owns (and wears) several capes. For real.
* Here’s a treat – awesome slow-mo HD video of Kevin Durant versus LeBron James in Game 3.
* Phil Jackson comes out and [...]

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 [...]