Andray Blatche is a knucklehead, and the Wizards better get rid of him if they want to keep John Wall. It is becoming next to impossible to prevent NBA superstars from flying the coop. They want to play in more attractive big markets. They want to play alongside other superstars. They want to win championships. And of course, they want to get paid. What they don’t want is to be stuck with a lottery-bound team. They don’t want to share a locker
Mitnick: NBA “All-Import” Team, Euro-rules style
TEL AVIV –In most European countries, there are separate post-season awards for local players and import players. The NBA justly classifies all of its players into one category, as passports are a non-factor when post-season awards are up for discussion. While the approach taken by the NBA is certainly the right one, as the absolute acceptance of foreign players into the NBA has made a big impact on the league in the last two decades, and fans are always looking for
Tweet of the Day: Dirk Nowitzki
Some advice for Dirk: Hum some Hasselhoff in your head before your wind-up at Game 3 of the World Series. @swish41 Dirk Nowitzki Fired up for tonight. Already warmin up in my backyard. Radar gun gonna read mid 80s. Let’s do this. Go rangers 27 minutes ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry
Bernucca column: Top 20 free agents
By Chris Bernucca We all remember last year’s free agency extravapalooza – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh heating up South Beach, Amar’e Stoudemire making the Knicks relevant, Dirk Nowitzki and Paul Pierce making career commitments to their teams and Joe Johnson landing the biggest contract of them all. Next year could be a quality sequel, with a star-studded cast that includes Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Ray Allen, Jason Terry, possibly Jameer Nelson and Gerald Wallace, and oldies but goodies Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and Steve
Eurobasket: Old guard and new kid lead Lithuania
By Chris Sheridan VILNIUS, Lithuania — This particular pick-and-roll play was both a thing of beauty and a small but memorable chapter in this country’s long basketball history, a moment that will stick in the country’s collective memory bank for ages to come. Sarunas Jasikevicius had the ball out near the circle and used the 7-foot frame of Jonas Valanciunas to create some space between himself and his defender. As the 19-year-old center rolled to the basket after setting the pick, the 35-year-old point guard lofted a perfect
Eurobasket: Nowitzki to play his biggest game since NBA Finals
By Chris Sheridan VILNIUS, Lithuania — With Serbia defeating Turkey this afternoon 68-67, Dirk Nowitzki still has a chance to get his national team into the quarterfinals when Germany plays Lithuania tonight. (The games can be watched live on FIBA.com). It’ll be Nowitzki’s most important game since the NBA Finals, but his team doesn’t just need to win … they need to win by 11 points or more. That is because of the complicated FIBA tie-breaking rules, which use point differential among games between
Tony Parker at Eurobasket = Dirk Nowitzki at NBA Finals
By Chris Sheridan VILNIUS, Lithuania — The hungriest player in last June’s NBA Finals was Dirk Nowitzki, who was starving to avenge the heartbreak of his loss in the championship round five years earlier. At EuroBasket, he has an equal in the hunger category. So hungry it might be fitting to call him a gourmand. That player is Tony Parker, whose 19 points — including five in the final 2:10 — fueled a 73-67 victory over Lithuania in front of a raucous, hostile
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