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Posted by Kelly Dwyer My name is Kelly Dwyer, I've written for several websites, watched plenty of basketball games, and once met Dave Corzine at his parents' house. I'm 27 years old, am much warmer than I would prefer to be right now, and have a son...

Basketball games are stories, like little novels. They are won or lost any number of different ways: somebody is on fire, somebody is scared, somebody else has the flu, somebody is setting great picks, somebody is not able to guard somebody else. All...

Bryan is a guy who sends e-mails to friends with thoughts about basketball games. Here are some of my favorites from watching San Antonio lose game seven in overtime to Dallas. Manu Ginobili is a great player... IMO, in OT last night if they co...

Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Hard intentional fouls have helped to make Chris Andersen one of the NBA's most effective players. On the first play of Wednesday night's Game 2, Nate Robinson used basketball skills to get himself a nice look at the bucke...

The Professional Basketball Writers Association announced its award-winners from 2012 during All-Star Weekend in Houston. They come in three categories: game story, column and feature. Congratulations to the nine winners: GAME STORY Dave McMen...

Dan Bickley of The Arizona Republic: The men's basketball team is considered royalty, swooned over by star-struck global media. The women's team has a 34-game winning streak, an unprecedented amount of star power, and is treated like they're playing ...

Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Sport Some get excited at the blood. But the NBA is far better when it's about basketball. In retrospect, the referees lost control of the game early in the second quarter. Tyler Hansbrough fouled the daylights out of Dwya...

HoopIdea began with the conviction that NBA basketball was the best game ever, but could be even better. To that end, we opened channels of communications to ESPN.com readers, to hear how they thought the game could be better. You know what they w...

Harry How/Getty Images Nobody who scores as easily as Andrew Bynum gets the ball so seldom. With 54.3 seconds left in the Lakers' Game 2 win over the Nuggets, Kobe Bryant was looking to inbound the basketball. Andrew Bynum put his butt into skin...

If you look back at the beginning of HoopIdea, we described this motto: "Basketball is the best game ever. Now let's make it better." One of my favorite radio shows is WNYC's Radiolab, where a while ago they talked to a bunch of brainiacs about wh...

On Monday I was in Bristol, and in the cafeteria at lunch things got pretty exciting discussing HoopIdea, and ways the NBA should change to make a better, more exciting game. Tim Duncan is essentially a perfect basketball player. But very few peop...

Has Steve Nash played his last game as a Sun? For those of you interested in billionaires and such, here's an amazing chart of where the money is. Not just the money in basketball ... all of the money, period. And this from The New Yorker's John Ke...

Andre C. Fernandez of The Miami Herald: "How much does South Florida miss pro basketball? Tickets for Saturday's charity all-star game dubbed the "LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh present the South Florida All-Star Classic" at U.S. Century B...

"I dunked on a girl, I got beat in a 3-point contest by a musician, and complained about a call -- which I didn't think I'd do in a charity game." Matt Bonner is fantastic, as is this Basketball Jones video of straight Canadian hoops. I really don'...

Os Davis of BallinEurope: "Lithuania is as basketball crazy as the reputation. Man, after barely squeaking by unheralded Great Britain last night, the streets were full of partiers -- one game and it was Canada after an Olympic hockey win. Gotta love...

Patrick Reusse of the Star Tribune: "Rambis and Kahn are on different planets as to how they see the game and this team. And even if Kahn had the giant brain in vocabulary and Rambis had the big brain in basketball, Kahn was smart enough to know bad ...