The Denver Nuggets played host to the L.A. Lakers on Friday night in what was a rematch of the 2009 Western Conference Finals.
During the waning moments of the Nuggets’ smug 105-79 win over the defending champs, Denver point guard Ty Lawson headed for the basket and made an unbelievable dunk on the Lakers’ D.J. Mbenga [...]

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NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been diagnosed with blood cancer.
“I have chronic myeloid leukemia,” the 62-year-old Hall-of-Famer said on Monday, announcing that he was first diagnosed almost a year ago.
The decision to go public with his disease was in hopes of helping others who may be struggling with cancer.
“My grandfather died from colorectal cancer, my [...]

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The San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili had finally had enough of a pesky bat that invaded the court.
The NBA star took matters into his own hands, literally.  The crowd immediately started chanting “Batman.”
It is unclear at this point whether the bat was killed or merely stunned.  Either way, I’m sure PETA will be chiming in [...]

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Michael Jordan gave an emotional speech during his Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Springfield, Mass. on Friday. It was an ideal setting for a true basketball legend and a fantastic speech by Jordan.
In the speech, Jordan discussed his childhood, the beginning of his basketball career and thanked the people that helped him out [...]

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Stephon Marbury hit Ustream the other day.  Big deal, right?  Well, he did it for 24 hours straight.
Marbury is one of the most interesting characters in pro basketball…maybe even a few fries short of a Happy Meal, but it’s refreshing to see that in the NBA today.
With this effort, he interacted in real time [...]

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Nike is now returning video footage that the company confiscated of LeBron James getting dunked on at the NBA star’s recent basketball camp.
Nike said it is giving back videotapes to two journalists who happened to film Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunking on LeBron James during a recent pickup game. The company says [...]

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Back at the beginning of July, we told you how a rookie managed to dunk on LeBron James at his LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, OH.  The camp, which is sponsored by Nike, gives promising young high school talent the chance to learn from the best…LeBron, that is.
James Crawford dunked on LeBron and the [...]

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San Antonio Spurs star Richard Jefferson called a last minute timeout on his wedding with dancer, Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols, just hours before their Manhattan wedding on Saturday, July 11, 2009…without even letting the guests know.
Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols at least had time to call her guests but the former New Jersey Nets cager only told a [...]

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Shaq Attack!

Filed under: “Bizarre Twitter Exchange of the Month”
What exactly is Shaq up to?  We all know that Shaquille O’Neal and Mark Cuban are addicted to Twitter.
Now it looks as though Shaq may actually be trying to get himself traded to Dallas by using Twitter to correspond with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Sometime on Saturday, [...]

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Tough times. Even the NBA is feeling the pinch – so much so that they have now reversed a ban on courtside liquor advertising in an effort to increase revenue during the recession.
The ban, first implemented in 1991 prohibited advertising of spirits anywhere in camera shot on court, although teams have been [...]

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