Dallas Maverick’s All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki will join LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Joe Johnson as an NBA free agent this summer, while Yao Ming will stay with the Houston Rockets. (Discuss Dirk and Yao’s moves in our NBA Forum) Nowitzki, Dallas’ all-time leading scorer and rebounder, reportedly notified the Mavericks that he [...]

The Houston Rockets defeated the visiting Nets, 116-108, behind Luis Scola‘s career-high 44 points and 12 rebounds Saturday night. (Talk Luis Scola Argentina Basketball in our forum) The point total for the 6-9 forward from Argentina demolishes his previous career high of 30 established 7 games ago against the Spurs on February 26th, 2010.. Against [...]

(FIBA) – Yao Ming made an unexpected appearance on the basketball court in Houston, Texas on Sunday. A video from website YouTube, uploaded by ClutchFans, shows the 7-6 Houston Rockets center without the protective boot he has been wearing since undergoing surgery to repair a broken bone in his left foot last July. In the [...]

From Ball Don’t Lie:  Last night, Houston forward Carl Landry lost 3-5 teeth in a second-quarter collision with Dirk Nowitzki. Landry didn’t try to find the lost teeth, as he simply closed his mouth and walked to the bench, but if he did, he would have found at least two of the teeth EMBEDDED IN [...]

The desire for Yao Ming to play in the 2010 World Championships is there, now all it takes is the authorization. This is according to a representative for Yao Ming, Zhang Mingji, who recently revealed the wish of the Houston Rockets centre to play for the Chinese national team. (Discuss Chinese Basketball in our forum) [...]

LeBron James is planning on switching his jersey number from No. 23 to No. 6 and the superstar wants all NBA players wearing #23 to retire the number in order to honor Michael Jordan, but is the King really making the change for altruistic reasons? We don’t think so. The 24-year old Andrew Bogut may [...]

The Houston Rockets waived Englishman Pops Mensah-Bonsu on Friday. The 6-9 Mensah-Bonsu played a total of 12 minutes in four games this season, averaging 1.3 points after a successful season with the Toronto Raptors last season. (Discuss the NBA in our forum) “This move is only being done to give us some roster flexibility in [...]