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I don't know if you caught today's killer college game of Duke vs. North Carolina, but here's what rookie Austin Rivers, yes, Doc Rivers, Boston Celtics head coach, son did today. Duke Freshman Guard Austin Rivers makes a game winning 3-pointer at the buzzer to lead Duke to the road upset of North Carolina. River scored a career-high 29 points, including six 3-pointers.

Photo: Paul Pierce NBA legends are still being molded but the ones that gutted it out with one team - through the thick and thin times - has all but [...]

We're around the first quarter mark of the 2012 NBA season, and it's been difficult to ignore the hype surrounding Kyrie Irving. His stellar play continued Sunday night, as he [...]

Early predictions stated the NBA lockout would affect players and teams in a variety of ways. No one could have guessed the game's fundamental shots would suffer as well. LeBron [...]

Julio Bashmore est bien plus qu'un simple contreur de seconde division comme son nom pourrait le laisser entendre ; il prend des initiatives, place ses attaques à l'aune de réflexions 'achement profondes , va même jusqu'à rédiger les schémas tactiques du coach. Le petit club formateur monta jusqu'en première division, louanges des fans et trompettes de bon aloi ; le jeune prodige s'en alla vers de plus vertes contrées, oui mais que voulez-vous c'est le mercato ma p'tite dame. [...]

It remains one of the darkest stories in all of sports because it had the brightest of futures. Never having the opportunity to see Len Bias play live remains one of my personal biggest disappointments as a basketball fan. He died when I was only four months old, yet his life, talents and circumstances surrounding his death remains a paralyzing romance gone horrifically wrong. While in grad school, a professor of mine, who worked at the University of Maryland this time 25 years ago, spent an entire class recounting the story of how [...]

After a long and storied career, Shaquille O'Neal has decided to call it quits on his basketball career. As unusual as always, The Big Aristotle decided to use social networking to announce that he was leaving the game, posting a short video message on the website Tout via his Twitter account. "We did it. Nineteen years baby," Shaq shared. "I want to thank you very much, that's why I'm telling you first, I'm about to retire. Thank you, talk to you soon." Personally, I thought the time for this announcement was [...]

While I'm not sure if LeBron and the Heat dispatching of the Celtics ranks alongside Jordan having to overcome the Pistons, a lot happened during and after last night's Game 4 to help erase the lingering questions and criticisms of Miami's squad. The action centered around James and, as far as denouements go, most everything panned out in his favor. - The man went apeshit in the final three minutes, including the last 10 points of the game. - He and his teammates were criticized for choosing to "over celebrate." [...]

4-0 sweep? Fuckin right I'm mad. Listening to that shitty Lyrical song made me feel a little better. I had to watch Robocop like three times before I could get out of bed this morning. Fuck Red Auerbach. Unload on 'em ED.

As a fan, we watch each game of the NBA playoffs with knowledge that we potentially have a front row seat to history. Last night was just that. Carmelo Anthony's 42 points and 17 rebounds performance vindicated every fan who supported trading damn near the entire franchise to obtain his services and Melo carried the Knicks to a lay up away from one of the more improbable victories in recent memory. The more ironic (and forgotten) facet? It came within a few hours from landing on the exact day Michael Jordan blitzed those same Celtics franchise for his [...]

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Series goes 1-1 tonight.

We're not even going to talk about how the Knicks all but forgot Amar'e Stoudamire was on the court after he single handedly kept them in the game that last quarter. There is a science to the NBA playoffs, especially when a team opens a series on the road. If there is a chance to steal Game 1, you do everything in your power to do so. Heading into the second season, the sexy pick for an upset in many people's minds were the Knicks upending the Boston Celtics who drunkenly stumbled into [...]

Graphics: Talia The NBA's regular season is a grueling campaign. Yet, come mid-April, bottom-feeders and ne'er do wells are sent home early while the league's best vie for the Larry O'Brien trophy. Of course, some squads will serve as fodder for the ensuing rounds. However this years match ups and trends warrant meaningful discussion. The old favorites return as heavyweights. Nevertheless, road to the chip is as open as it's been in some time. This could be the year when the old guard gives way to new champions, like it [...]

Graphics: Talia NBA franchises play 82 games for the chance to contend in "the second season" and win 16 that actually matter. Still, the playoffs are far from being rocket science. Sixteen teams enter the postseason, but a select few have a legit chance to actually hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy come June. Think about a group of girls who go out on the town together. Sure, all of them may dress nice, but only two are going to get the majority of free drinks and attention the entire night. [...]

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Here we are folks. The first full Sunday sans football. Here's to your and yours holding up and August getting here quicker than a Charlie Sheen high. I say August because I refuse to believe the owners and players will leave potentially billions of dollars sitting on a table because they cannot come to an agreement on how rich they'll be for the next few seasons. Thankfully for myself and others, the NBA is here (and March Madness is looming) to remedy my football woes. Valentine's Day Eve afforded a pre-Grammys double-header worth [...]

Photo Via NBA Considering the amount of shots the average avid-hooper takes in a lifetime, the number 2,561 doesn't exactly scream "record-breaking." Reggie Miller sat on the retirement bench for years with that particular count minus one, that is, until the waning hours of February 10th, 2011 when Ray Allen decided he felt a certain way about the way history had been written. But while Ray and Reggie both have likely triple the number of treys it took for them to be etched in stone during sideline shootarounds and [...]

For as important as yesterday was to the NFL, Sunday NBA basketball takes me back to my youth nearly as much. It had it all: the NBA on NBC, the flawless trailers which left the feeling each game was literally life or death and, of course, Bob Costas with the play by play. Now I'm an adult with the league as exciting as it has been in years, Sunday basketball still gets me going. Granted, it isn't the same habitual feel as football on Sundays, but I'm a junkie and I'll [...]

Christmas day basketball was the only thing that kept me sane as I finished out my workday on Saturday. Thankfully I was out the door during the second quarter of the Heat-Lakers game. I caught most of the Celtics-Magic game & that shot by J.J. Reddick was clutch. I just didn't realize how clutch it was until I caught this stat provided by the cracker jack video team over at TrueHoop : With a two-point lead and under 45 seconds remaining, the Orlando Magic turned to J.J. Redick in [...]