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Matt Watson of Detroit Bad Boys e-mails: Have you heard of Marquise Walker? The "nation's best six-year-old basketball player?" He's got game, but the odd thing is that his dad (or somebody, I don't know) likes to put him in front of rando...

Scott Halleran/Getty Images James Harden's shot got the Rockets the win, but the game could have gone very differently. James Harden had just hit one of the prettier late-game shots of the season -- it turned out to be a game winner -- and the ball...

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty ImagesOn the nights he performs best, Jeremy Lin lacks any instinct for self preservation.Jeremy Lin played out of his mind for 26 games last season and became a global sensation. Then he got hurt and missed the rest of the s...

Linda Robertson of The Miami Herald: In Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the Heat was down. But not out. The Heat stumbled. But got up. Miami's quest for a title became acutely painful Tuesday. But afterward, bliss. It took a collective effort - big baskets...

Watching the Bulls in overtime on Sunday night I had something of an epiphany. They just played so hard and together on both ends. So many Bulls seem to love that very intense time of the game. The Pistons got the first rebound of overtime, and then ...

Anthony Rieber of Newsday: Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire walked off the court at the end of the third quarter Sunday with the Knicks trailing by 16 points. They never got back in the game as the Knicks lost to the 76ers , 106-94. Mike D'Anton...

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...

Howard Beck of The New York Times: Carmelo Anthony appeared disengaged for most of the night, shot poorly (2 for 12) and came up empty when he returned for the final four minutes of the game after the Knicks' bench got them back in the game. He finis...

"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'...

The NBA playoffs have been fantastic so far. If there's one really bad thing, though, it's that the Thunder got a key bucket in a thrilling game against the Nuggets on a crucial -- and fairly blatantly incorrect -- no-call. The rules state that playe...

Stephen Dunn/Getty Images Sport At the end of Game 2 of the 2009 Finals, the Magic knew who to guard, and got the block. Ask pundits. Ask general managers. Ask players. Ask almost anybody. Who would you like to have take the last shot with the g...

Philadunkia's Tom Sunnergren caught up with second overall pick Evan Turner at a Sixers' beach event, and they got to talking about players Turner patterns himself after. I asked him if there any other players in the game, past or present who he vie...

Brian Babineau /NBAE/Getty Images Nate Robinson knows how to take the energy of a game in one direction: Up. Talking about the Celtics' bench earlier in the Finals, Phil Jackson observed that "they played desperate, and they got away with it." D...

If you haven't yet seen Kevin Arnovitz's breakdown of how Ray Allen got open in Game 2, stop reading this and go watch that. And it brings up an interesting little playoff point: Winning a series is often about making opponents think, which often ...

How any basketball game is won or lost is complicated. A zillion things go into it. And no highlight package can tell the whole story. But this one tells us something about how the Warriors got outscored by 18 in the final quarter. There are fi...

Kobe Bryant fans, stat geeks and referee conspiracy theorists -- everyone got what they wanted from last night's Lakers win over the Bucks. Kobe Bryant fans That's what he does, right? That game-winner over Charlie Bell is precisely the reason th...