Tourney thoughts, a little O.J. and the Lopez twins

...sounds, other than winning the 2008 lottery, framing LeBron James for a crime or bringing Don Nelson back...

Time to put the Trade Machine to work

"Hello everyone, I'm WWE announcer Jim Ross. We'd like to welcome you to another excit-..." (We hear the sound of glass breaking and the beginning of...

Are you ready for some basketball?

Good news for NBA junkies: Leading up to the 2007-08 season, ESPN Classic asked me to pick games for a limited seven-week run on Wednesday nights. So,...

We'll never forget LeBron's 48-Point Game

...just wanted to say, you better hope the Cavs lose this game because there's no stopping LeBron if he pulls this off. They're gonna own the East for the next 10-12 years...

Thinking about the NBA playoffs while web surfing

All right, we're pulling out all the stops today: NBA playoff thoughts, reader e-mails, follow-ups to last Friday's mailbag, some weekly links ... it'...

Breaking down the luck of the lottery

...after the ABA/NBA merger and sold him for $3 million. The Lakers landed Magic Johnson and James Worthy by trading New Orleans and Cleveland mediocre players for future first-round picks (for instance, Marc...

Master of my TV domain

With the Basketball Blog on hiatus until the NBA playoffs start, I woke up on Monday morning, made some coffee, answered a few e-mails, sat down in fr...

Searching for the real Greg Oden

...a similar way, as did David Robinson and LeBron James right now. You could call this the Bo...

Down with the O.J. Mayo Era

If you missed the McDonald's All-American Game Wednesday night, you missed an appalling 4-for-17 performance by O.J. Mayo, who has a legitimate chance...

Durant, Oden and hoops housecleaning

Five quick updates on the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant Sweepstakes before we get to some housecleaning: 1. Let the tanking begin! After Milwaukee (25 wins)...

Coasting Global Icon

...extended e-mails about the Global Icon (aka LeBron James) as the second half of this post ... but...

More Cowbell: My take on the 22

...was artificially inflated because he was playing with LeBron James at the time. You had Richard Jefferson, who...

In the NBA, and life, it's all about getting your reps

Before Bill Simmons breaks down the NBA, he has to get in his column reps.

Lions rookies go to charm school

The Detroit Lions sent their rookies to charm school, and Page 2's Jemele Hill brought a video crew to see what transpired.

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 25: LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots against Anthony...