Kobe Bryant got bold yesterday during an interview, stating that the current USA Team would edge out the 1992 Dream Team, widely known as the greatest team ever assembled. You can’t blame Bryant for sticking up for his team, but even he sounded rather skeptical of what was coming out of his own mouth. Bryant’s statement received notable attention from Charles Barkley, who went on The Mike Missanelli Show on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia to discuss how wrong Bryant was: I just started
The video is titled “Blake Griffin goes OFF at USAB Scrimmage” and we certainly got a taste of what Griffin can do to the rim over the weekend, but the best highlights in this video may actually have come from Kyrie Irving, who showed some amazing handles that made players such as Russell Westbrook, Kobe Bryant, James Harden and others look like those kids who didn’t know what hit them in the “Uncle Drew” video. Irving had an incredible rookie season, averaging 18.5
LAS VEGAS — As the years go by, reminders of advancing age increase, and no one who has reached adulthood is spared. When asked about one of those events Monday, U.S. Olympic basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski – who is at the retirement age of 65 – said, “I try not to think about it.” If the person who conceived the term “time flies” wanted to make different age groups feel older, he or she could point out: 1. How painful it has been
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LAS VEGAS – After a week of NBA teams throwing money around like a busload of retired tourists at a swarm of slot machines, it seemed only appropriate for the best, brightest and richest basketball players to assemble in this city of excess. Had they not been engaged in the task at hand, players probably would have walked around with smile reminiscent of Jim Carrey in The Mask. Salsa anyone? But they came to Las Vegas to play . . . play
A funny thing happened on L.A.’s way to oblivion…. Actually, the L.A. teams didn’t go anywhere, even if they wrote them off as the new backwater of the West and whatever other insults and Skid Row photos they threw into their dumb stories. OK, I was the one who did the backwater story a while back. OK, it was just two days back—or put another way, just before the Lakers got Steve Nash–becoming even older and slower (their starters will be 38-34-32-32-25) but
(function() { var csprtjs = document.createElement('script'); csprtjs.type = 'text/javascript'; csprtjs.async = true; csprtjs.src = 'http://sheridanhoops.cinesport.comhttp://edgecdn.cinesport.com/container.js'; var first_s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; first_s.parentNode.insertBefore(csprtjs, first_s); })(); Kobe Bryant hasn’t played with a Hall of Fame point guard since, since … C’mon folks … You remember … Crunch that cranium … It was since 2004, when Gary Payton was at the end of his illustrious career and teamed with Karl Malone to join the Los Angeles Lakers for
Steve Nash is going to be Kobe Bryant’s new running mate in Los Angeles, and maybe that’ll be enough to increase the size of Dwight Howard’s one-team wish list. The Nash sweepstakes reached a stunning conclusion today when the Lakers and Suns agreed to a sign-and trade deal, with Los Angeles sending a pair of first-round picks and a pair of second-round picks to the Suns. That trumped the offer coming from the New York Knicks, who were willing to surrender a