Archive for July, 2010

Marquee Games To Be Revealed Tuesday

Because it took one big event on national television (The Decision – ring a bell?), the NBA now has a reason to give the general public a sneek peek of some of the marquee games during the 2010-11 regular season. According to the Associated Press, NBATV officials revealed on Friday that they will host a [...]

Eddy Curry Finally Gets Time On The Court

Paul sent this in: The moment Knick fans have been waiting for has finally arrived.  It was recently announced that Curry will be back on the court; unfortunately it won’t be at MSG, but at the Cook County Court House. For the second time in little over a month, an arrest warrant has been issued [...]

Wizards Re-Up Howard

Not surprisingly, the Washington Wizards re-signed one of their core players Wednesday as Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports reports that the team has re-signed Josh Howard to a one-year, close-to $4 million deal. Washington did this despite the fact that Howard averaged 12.7 PPG and 3.6 RPG and would subsequently miss the rest of [...]

Magic Retain Van Gundy, Smith

The Orlando Magic, besides keeping some stability within their roster, have kept some upstairs personnel and their coach locked up for a while longer as according to the Sporting News, the team announced on Wednesday that they have signed coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith to contract extensions. In addition, they also [...]

Raptors GM Bashes Bosh

Paul sent this in: It seems that General Managers didn’t learn anything from Dan Gilbert’s $100,000 public bashing of LeBron James.  Raptors General Manager Bryan Colangelo, in a recent interview with Toronto’s The FAN 590 radio station, let the public know his true feelings about once beloved superstar Chris Bosh. Although Colangelo used his words [...]

LeBron’s Legacy Going Down The Drain?

Brant sent this in: For the most part, the most anticipated free agency in the history of the NBA is over. Sure, there are some valuable veterans out there that still could be signed, but I’m talking about the household names, the figureheads, the faces of the franchise type players. They are all signed now [...]

USA Basketball Coming To The Big Apple

Paul sent this in: New York may have missed out on the King, but on August 12-15, New York City will be home to some of the world’s best basketball players during a four-day World Basketball Festival.  The festival hosted by NIKE and USA Basketball will bring teams from France, Puerto Rico, Brazil and China [...]

Paul Isn’t Leaving Big Easy, Says Hornets

At some point of time, there will be total clarity in the Chris Paul-New Orleans Hornets situation. But until then, more of the he-said, he-said from both camps. According to ESPN.com, the Hornets are saying that they will not trade the point guard; both team general manager Dell Demps and coach Monty Williams are to [...]