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2011/06/25 5:21 pm

Greece: Ioannis Bourousis caught in Doping Scandal

A huge Greek football scandal has also drawn in domestic basketball superstar Ioannis Bourousis leading to a shocking doping revelation and repercussions. Leaked by a recorded telephone conversation, the transcripts tell a story of an April 2011 meeting between the owner of the Kavala Football Club and Olympiako’s and Greek National Team star Bouroussis. Discuss the Bourousis scandal in our Greek...

2011/03/10 9:35 am

Video: Big East admits Ref Errors in St. Johns-Rutgers Match

With St. John’s up 2 in the Big East Tournament, the Red Storm’s Justin Brownlee grabbed a loose ball, thought the game was over, took a couple of steps, stepped out of bounds and threw the ball into the stands while the final 1.7 seconds ticked off the clock. The ball should have gone to Rutgers for one last shot at the basket. It didn’t. Check out the video: Quickly after the...

2009/11/25 2:43 pm

Rumor: Did Peja Stojakovic meet with Porn Star?

Talkbasket reports that New Orleans Hornet’s forward Peja Stojaković may have had a late night tryst with porn star Sienna West: “Predrag Stojakovic allegedly spent a ‘romantic’ night with porn star Sienna West who in turn told the world about it through her twitter account, which was later mysteriously deleted.” Apparently, West had posted a video online of her supposedly...

2009/08/11 10:19 am

Pic of the Day: Reggie Miller gets called out

I normally wouldn’t publish something like this, but the image is so ridiculous, it was just begging to be posted. I apologize for taking a break from real basketball, especially with so many huge tournaments going on, such as Afrobasket, Asiabasket, and the CoCaBa championships, but… well, take a look… The above banner was flown over Hermosa Beach during the AVP beach volleyball...

2009/06/20 2:34 pm

Nowitzki wants custody of Cristal Taylor’s 4th child

According to the Beaumont Enterprise newspaper, court filing notes that Dirk Nowitzki may be expecting his firstchild. Nowitzki’s former girlfriend Crista Ann Taylor, the woman that was recently arrested at Dirk Nowitzki’s home, named the NBA Star as the father of her unborn child and a paternity test has been ordered by the court. And if paternity tests show that the 7-0 German is the...

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Kevin Durant, Thunder Donate $2 Million to Tornado Relief Effort

Even after the Thunder and Kevin Durant saw their season come to an early end this past week, they were able to step up in a major way off the court on Tuesday. After a massive tornado ravaged Oklahoma City on Monday, killing more than 50 people, Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Kevin Durant announced he would pledge $1 million to the American Red Cross to help the relief effort, according to ESPN.com. And after seeing their best player make [...]
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Stan Van Gundy Will Not Coach Next Season

As the offseason NBA coaching carousel continues to spin round, one coach that won’t be on board is former Orlando Magic head man Stan Van Gundy. Many teams that are looking for new coaches, including the Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Bobcats may have had Van Gundy in mind for their current openings, but he took himself out of the running on Tuesday, telling Orlando radio station SportsTalk 1080 that he will not join an NBA team for the [...]
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Investor Chris Hansen Still Determined to Bring NBA Back to Seattle

Investor Chris Hansen, the leader of the movement to bring the Kings to Seattle, seemingly had his dream to co-own an NBA franchise crushed when NBA owners voted against the relocation of the Kings to the Emerald City. He was further dismayed when Kings owners decided to sell to a Sacramento-based group instead of his Seattle-based group last week. However, Hansen recently said that he is not giving up until the city of Seattle has an NBA team of its own [...]
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Charlotte Bobcats
Bobcats May Change Name Back to Hornets

Now that the New Orleans Hornets have officially changed their team nickname to the Pelicans, the Charlotte Bobcats may want the Hornets name back. Charlotte’s NBA franchise was last known as the Hornets in 2002, but according to CBSSports.com, the team has begun the process of reverting back to the old name, which could take up to 18 months according to NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver. Bobcats chairman and owner Michael Jordan said that the team hired a national polling [...]
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Maloofs Sell Kings to Sacramento-Based Group

The tug of war between Seattle and Sacramento over the Kings finally has a winner. After NBA owners voted to block the Sacramento Kings’ relocation to Seattle on Thursday, team owners – the Maloof family – reached an agreement to sell the franchise to a Sacramento-based group led by software billionaire Vivek Ranadive on Friday. According to ESPN.com, the sale was valued at an NBA record $535 million. Ranadive put up $348 million on his own for a 65 percent [...]
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Memphis Grizzlies NBA Playoffs
Grizzlies Advance to West Finals for First Time

Who needs offense? The Memphis Grizzlies certainly didn’t in their 88-84 game five win against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, a win that instantly became the most monumental milestone in the franchise’s relatively young history. In typical Grizzlies fashion, defense won the day, as Memphis advanced to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in the franchise’s 18-year history. They managed to hold the high-scoring Thunder to under 37 percent from the field and fended off a late [...]
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Why Basketball players use HMB

Basketball players, like many athletes, are always striving to increase their performance. And over the past decade, diet has become a major player in getting the best out of your body. While a healthy diet is one of the keys to maintain high performance, supplements such as HMB have been found to actively help to improve your body’s ability to get to the next level. HMB (Beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate) which contain beta-alanine, is a metabolite of the amino acid leucine, which [...]
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Kareem Teaches Brittney Griner the Skyhook

Brittney Griner, the WNBA’s first overall pick of 2013, already has plenty of game, but she added another weapon to her ever-expanding offensive arsenal by working with the NBA’s all-time scoring leader this week. During a one-on-one training session on Wednesday, the Phoenix Mercury rookie watched Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showcase his signature shot – the skyhook – and then took some shots of her own, attempting to master the move that helped Abdul-Jabbar rack up more than 38,000 points in his [...]
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Sacramento Kings
NBA Owners Vote to Keep Kings in Sacramento

Sacramento Kings fans didn’t have a lot to cheer about this season, but they got to celebrate a major victory on Wednesday. All 30 NBA team owners gathered on Wednesday for a four hour meeting to vote on the Kings’ proposed move to Seattle. Even though the team owners, the Maloof family, had approved the sale to a Seattle investment group, the majority of team owners voted against the move by a count of 22-8, effectively keeping the team in [...]
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Andrew Wiggins Chooses Kansas

Kentucky, Florida State, and North Carolina were all vying for his services in hope of landing the player regarded as the best high school basketball prospect since LeBron James in 2003. However, all three schools will have to settle with being runner-ups in the Andrew Wiggins sweepstakes because the forward announced Tuesday morning that he will be attending the University of Kansas. Some experts projected that Florida State, the alma mater of Wiggins’ parents, was the favorite to land the forward [...]
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