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USA Basketball announced today that NBA players Carlos Boozer, Tyson Chandler, Jason Kidd, Mike Miller, Tayshaun Prince and Deron Williams along with incoming rookies Greg Oden and Kevin Durant have been named to the Men’s Senior National Team. The eight players will join over a dozen other players who will compete to make the [...]

I love the Draft Lottery. It’s such good drama that my wife actually insisted on staying on ESPN than watching the end of the American Idol season finale.
It doesn’t matter if your team is in it or not, be honest - you chuckle (if not howl) when a team slips out of their projected [...]

The NBA’s annual Draft Lottery takes place tonight in New Jersey at NBA Entertainment HQ. And all eyes will be on the Number 1 & 2 slots on the board as potential franchise saviors in the form of two college freshman await being selected in next month’s NBA Draft.
(For the record, Ernie Grunfeld has [...]

The Western Conference finals pits the NBA’s two longest tenured coaches (with current team) against each other in Utah’s Jerry Sloan and San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich.
Did you know that our very own Eddie Jordan, who in his four years in Washington, is currently the NBA’s third longest tenured coach?
Thanks to ESPN/ABC’s Dan Patrick for [...]

As if you needed another reason to like Caron Butler, this could be the definitive reason.
About two weeks ago, Caron received an invitation left on his door to a party left by a neighborhood kid who was going to celebrate his 16th birthday on May 12. Butler took the invitation and placed it [...]