What does a toothless elbow look like? It looks like the following. Our Pic of the Day features Dirk Nowitzki’s elbow after it had a couple of Carl Landry’s teeth embedded into in a December 18th game vs. the Houston Rockets. Amazingly, in Dirk’s first game back, Nowitzki was able to hit 10-13, score 27 [...]

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 [...]

How long will Pau Gasol be out with his right hamstring injury? Phil Jackson jokingly alarmed Laker fans by saying the 7-0 center could be out until around Christmas, but Gasol is listed day-to-day and is expected to be donning the purple and gold within the next couple weeks. However thanks to Kobe Bryant’s league- leading [...]

So what’s Yao Ming doing besides resting and rehabilitating for the next NBA season? He’s now on Twitter, that’s right, Yao Ming, 7-6 NBA all-star center from China is now Twittering from the Rockets’ bench, when he’s driving his massive SUV, and the comfort of his own toilet. And as of this writing, Yao has [...]