ONE: It’s a shame that the first Sunday Six Pack of the year has to be written in such depressing circumstances. Our Aussie NBA hero has once again gone down with a serious injury, this time as fractured left ankle. “It’s like someone has a voodoo doll of me and is putting pins in it”, [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Stephon Marbury wishes us a happy Chinese New Year.
* Kobe Bryant loses three mansions and $75 million in his divorce settlement. Something tells me he’ll be alright though.
* Zach Lowe examines the possibilities (or lack thereof) in Boston.
* Gee, Dirk really is struggling [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* More video gold from the Dallas Mavericks – they’re ‘sexy and they know it’.
* Kevin Love vs. Sumo Wrestler on ESPN’s Sport Science.
* Some tough decisions loom in Boston.
 
* The Birdman will taunt you with his face.
 
* Life ain’t fair. D-Wade has banked [...]

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 [...]

Note: This post was written last night after the first days’ play.
Since the beginning of time, every season without fail, I’ve been posting up my “Things I Learnt from Day 1″ – a brief run down on the biggest stories and themes coming out of the season’s opening games. But this year, thanks to [...]

A weekly wrap of the things you should know in basketball.
* Keep your schedule clear on Boxing Day – ESPN is showing 4 GAMES!!
* Kevin Garnett ‘encourages’ Andrea Bargnani to drive to the hoop.
* Here’s just a sample of what you can expect from the Clippers this year.
* SI’s Zach Lowe analyses the [...]

We’ll do the votes, then we’ll talk about the amazing, incredible completely unpredictable predicament the Lakers have found themselves in thanks to this super Dallas team.
3 votes – Derrick Rose. The best game of Derrick Rose’s playoff career thus far.  He was so aggressive that I was almost offended just watching him. He was brutal [...]

3 votes – Lebron James. LBJ dominated this game in the last quarter and Wade dominated it through the first three. And that is what makes this Heat team so hard to stop. You can pin these guys down for a quarter or maybe a half, but not both of them for a whole game. That [...]

I found it really hard to give the three votes today. For the first time in these playoffs, there wasn’t really a single dominant performance that demanded the three votes. The three winning teams won comfortably thanks to a balanced team effort with multiple contributors. I guess that’s why they won comfortably, eh?
3 votes – [...]

As the NBA season begins its second half, shit tends to get just a little bit tedious for everyone involved. Fans have more or less figured out which teams are good, bad or plain mediocre. The players on the good teams are just trying to get to the All-Star break uninjured; the players on the [...]