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Posted by Kevin Arnovitz The debate over whether college athletes should have their images used by the NCAA for commercial purposes has been percolating for years. With the emergence of the video game industry, commemorative championship-season DV...

The website Bungie.net -- where HALO rankings are kept, I gather -- addressed accusations that Gilbert Arenas had cheated the video game world. Lots of drama abounded (or perhaps rebounded) on Wednesday and Thursday as famous baller Gilbert Arenas g...

This is amazingly cool. Someone recreated LeBron James' amazing 29-of-his-team's-last-30 (from Game 5 of last year's playoff series against the Pistons) in video game format. Oddly fun to watch, and many of the plays look just like the real thing.Sim...

Just as he ascended to the pantheon of NBA stars, complete with his own video game team and many thousands of new devotees, he has suddenly become maddeningly inconsistent. Is is the referees? Ivan Carter explains: Gilbert's problems remain a mys...

There is plenty of video footage out there of Kevin Durant playing in summer leagues, rec ball and, most memorably, at Barry Farms in Washington D.C. over the last few years. One thing that has long made an impression on me is that in these games, wh...

People have been talking about fixing flopping in the NBA for much of my adult life, and it generally goes like this: Somebody ought to watch that video, after the game and then punish the heck out of those floppers. There's a certain logic to thi...

Why did the owners cancel all those games in a fight to aggressively reduce player salaries? By and large, so that small market owners wouldn't feel so much financial pain. Meanwhile, here's a nice little video peek at Jazz owner Greg Miller's massiv...

"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'...

Rick Carlisle suggested Jason Kidd might be the smartest player in NBA history after the point guard intentionally ran into the opposing coach, a touch of craftiness that more or less won a road game for the Mavericks in 2010. In a new video detai...

There is some excitement out there today about Matt Barnes and a fight he may or may not have gotten into Thursday night in a San Francisco Pro-Am game at Kezar Pavilion. This is the best video I have seen from that game, although it contains highlig...

HoopSpeak's Beckley Mason with video analysis from Sunday's game:...

David Sherman/NBAE/Getty Images Credit Kevin Love with the heroism, but: Where were the Knicks? Here are some nice video highlights of Kevin Love assembling one of the most amazing statistical games of the last couple of NBA decades. How did the...

I have already embedded this video once, but just in case you missed it, or even if you didn't: Watch Russian Knick rookie Timofey Mozgov, the dunkee, in that video. Playing in his 12th NBA game, the poor guy looks a little stunned. Later, ...

Hakeem Olajuwon tutoring Dwight Howard, in extended video. They're in Olajuwon's gym, which is an amazing place, where nobody ever misses a shot. Also, the video reveals a particular and correctable problem with Howard's post game. There is no Tony...

A very common complaint among TrueHoop readers is that there is no time, at an NBA game, to relax. There's hyper music and promotions and videos and races at all times. Especially when basketball is not being played! If you're going to the arena to w...

Brandon Jennings lived in Italy, and had a pair of soccer cleats custom made for him as a gift from his shoe company. Those two facts tell us nothing real about his soccer skills, but nevertheless I entered the Sara D. Roosevelt Park, just south of ...