Growing up in Michigan, I disliked Larry Bird and his Boston Celtics a lot. It wasn’t until later in Bird’s career, and after he had retired that I began to look past my prejudice and really appreciate the man’s basketball ability. Bird is the owner of one of my top-3 favorite NBA plays of all [...]

After an injury-plagued season which limited him to just 37 games with the Boston Celtics, Shaquille O’Neal quietly announced his retirement from the NBA on his Twitter with a simple message and accompanying video: “im retiring Video: http://bit.ly/kvLtE3 #ShaqRetires” Is the Big Aristotle, Diesel, Big Daddy, the one and only SHAQ, finished? As of April [...]

The 2011 NBA playoffs is a who’s who, a showcase of the NBA’s best point guards. As of this writing, the the top-scoring guards in the playoffs this year aren’t prolific shooting guards Kobe Bryant, Ray Allen or Dwyane Wade – they’re superstar point guards Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, and Chris Paul. (Discuss NBA Playoffs in [...]

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 [...]

There was a flurry of activity in the NBA before Thursday’s 3pm trade deadline with Goran Dragic of Slovenia, Nenad Krstic of Serbia and Turkey’s Semih Erden among the internationals changing addresses. Dragic, thought to be the heir apparent to point guard Steve Nash in Phoenix, was dealt to Houston along with a first-round pick [...]

Rajon Rondo has scaled the heights with the Boston Celtics but he won’t do the same with Team USA this summer in Istanbul after deciding to withdraw from the squad. (Discuss the World Championships in our World Championships Forum) The electric point guard, an NBA champion in the 2007-08 campaign, struggled in a win against [...]

The Boston Celtics have signed Semih Erden, a 7-1 center from Turkey, to a one-year contract with an option for a second. (Discuss all the NBA signings and trades in our NBA Forum) Erden is 23-year old big man that was selected by the Boston Celtics with the last pick in the 2008 NBA Draft (60th overall). [...]