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Hats off to a crew that includes Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, Ed Pinckney, Quentin Richardson, Isiah Thomas and many others for putting a lot of heart into a multi-faceted effort to address gang violence in Chicago. The NBA and its players are into an...

A few things I love about these highlights: DeAndre Jordan's finish was not at all easy. Hats off to him for being incredibly explosive. Also, how fantastic for basketball in Los Angeles, generally, that fans are up, loud and crazy cheering for bo...

The NBA Finals are the pinnacle of the sport. They're also a stressful event for small band of NBA employees who are charged with making certain the champions have championship hats, t-shirts and towels -- branded for their team -- at the ready insta...

Amid reports that George Shinn may be selling his majority stake in the New Orleans Hornets to minority owner Gary Chouest has Ryan Schwan of Hornets247 affixing his research hat. First, he found that the most common criticism of Shinn -- that he'...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz An interesting account of what went on in the Pacers' war room the night of the 2001 draft, and how the team landed the then-coveted Jamaal Tinsley. (Hat Tip: Indy Cornrows) The final post in a series of pieces of ho...

If you want a course in how NBA offenses work, step one is to set aside an hour to really dig into this amazing post with a zillion diagrams and 21 custom videos. Hats off. Can you imagine Derrick Rose with a wholly reliable jumper? Very tough to st...

Hats off to the young King who is humble about the fact that he used his lifeguard training, and heroic instincts, to save a woman who fell off a boat over Memorial Day weekend....

Poor guy just lost his job, as the Rocky Mountain News has closed its doors. I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet, but he's certainly still trying. He just broke the story that the Nuggets are about to sign Jason Hart, and to get the wor...

Hats off to Kevin Arnovitz, for running at TrueHoop from Phoenix over All-Star Weekend. Some highlights of his coverage: A Better All-Star Weekend, Rookie Challenge, Saturday Night Events, Sunday's Big Game, Your Nightmare Defender 1, Yo...

There is a game that professional athletes play. Despite the fact that every single human is a human, with a wide array of emotions and vulnerabilities, athletes pretty much are supposed to pretend -- at least when the media is around -- that they ha...

From Joakim Noah's post-pick press conference: (Sighing) Wow. I'm going to the League, man. He was my coach in like tenth grade (pointing to gentleman in audience. ) This is crazy. Ask him if he thought I would be here with a Chicago Bulls hat. If h...

ESPN Insiders can hear the whole thing here. Stern is not charming -- he has his bully hat on with Dan Patrick -- but he is not, it strikes me, wrong, either. Some key Stern quotes: There is no way to know if someone is running out on the court as f...

The Spurs rookie makes a videotaped attempt to touch the very tippy top of the backboard, which, in case you haven't ever actually measured it, is super freaking high.Hat tip to Tim, who emailed this to me with the message that "being a Spurs fan is ...

Geoff Petrie makes it pretty clear that Bonzi Wells will not be back. I have heard that the guy sitting to LeBron's left in the Nike hat is William Wesley. Hard to tell for certain. Can anyone who was actually in Las Vegas (hello Brian Wind...

Brian Windhorst knows LeBron James as well as anyone covering the NBA. On his blog (after taking time to dispell the "Yankee Hat" rumors) he drops an interesting little tidbit: is it possible that the NBA's best star is not moving much prod...

Alexandra Marshall frequently writes about fashion for The New York Times, and in yesterday's Sunday magazine she took a crack at the way NBA players are dressing these days. After calling Tim Duncan a "flagrant fashion foul" and waxing nos...