Until recently, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder have mostly gotten a free pass from the basketball media. Frankly, unless you (or, in my case, my dad) are from Seattle it’s hard to dislike them. A group of young, talented, likeable guys who were put together by a savant GM and could possibly dominate [...]

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* 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.
* This is gold – Steve Nash doing ‘Gangnam Style’ on the Lakers bench.
* Check out this hilarious photo of the Lopez twins on a roller coaster.
* An injury update on Andrew Bogut.
* Eric Bledsoe erases Dwayne Wade at the rim. Wow! I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been having computer trouble all week, so needless to say I’m a bit testy at the moment. Jeopardise my NBA viewing, especially during Finals week, and someone will feel my fury (as the folks over at HP can surely attest to). But I digress.
I’m not going to bash the Thunder here because I think [...]

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 [...]

As Statement Games go, it wasn’t quite MJ’s 63 points in the old Boston Garden (a game I grew up watching on tape) or even LeBron’s 45-15-5 of just a few days ago. But in this game, Kevin Durant and the Thunder confirmed what many of us knew before – that when KD’s offensive game [...]

“I just got caught up with women throwing themselves at me. When a girl sends me 100 pictures, I have to send something back every now and then. I’m not an asshole.”
- Former Blazer Greg Oden in a recent interview, explaining why he sent out the infamous nude picture of himself to a female friend.
Yeah, [...]