If the reports are true, superstar point guard Chris Paul will be suiting up next to Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles this next NBA season. Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted that the New Orleans Hornets have started telling other teams that they plan to send CP3 to the Lakers in a trade for Andrew Bynum and Lamar [...]

Serenaded jubilantly by their countrymen after a 80-75 gold medal victory over Brazil, Argentina’s national basketball team added another chapter in a story I haven’t the skill or depth of words to write. But Argentina’s fascinating rise to basketball prominence is a story that should be told. One that would be best narrated in their [...]

Argentina clinched an Olympic spot after beating Puerto Rico in a breathtaking 81-79 match playing at home. Luis Scola and Emanuel Ginóbili combined for 50 points to lead the 2004 Olympic Champion for another shot at the London Games. Discuss the Tournament of the Americas in our forum. Argentina played in great form during the [...]

With Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett, and Dwight Howard, the NBA doesn’t lack for superstars in this year’s playoffs, but there’s one player that consistently gets no respect (or not enough) – Manu Ginóbili. Discuss NBA Playoffs in our basketball forum The Argentine superstar willed his San Antonio [...]

As evidenced by the black sleeve on his strained right elbow, it was clear that Manu Ginobili wasn’t the same – as the Argentine superstar returned to the San Antonio Spurs after missing game one. (Discuss the 2011 NBA Playoffs in our basketball forum) “It was uncomfortable,” Ginobili said of the sleeve “But I felt [...]

According to a poll done by Sports Illustrated, 152 NBA players named three Argentinians as some of the biggest “floppers” in the NBA. Manu Ginóbili, Luis Scola and Andres Nocioni, all from Argentina, made the top-ten in this infamous category. Fellow South American, Anderson Varejão of Brazil topped the list at #1 – really no [...]

Check out the video of Manu Ginóbili putting out an April Fools joke on Kevin Garnett in the Spur’s 107-97 loss to the Boston Celtics. Ginobili shot just 4-13 in the game and ended with just 9 points. The Spurs slide stretched to six straight games. Kevin Garnett finished the game with 20 points and [...]