Pat Riley masterminded a brilliant trade as the Miami Heat traded Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Toronto Raptors for Jermaine O'Neal, Jamario Moon, and a lottery-protected first round draft pick. Basically he dominated former NBA Executive of the Year, Bryan Colangelo, and now has a team that ...

MIAMI -- When Dwyane Wade arrived at Tim Grover's Attack Athletics gymnasium in Chicago last May, he was ready to repair his left knee and reconstruct his career. Less than two years after winning the NBA Finals MVP in 2006, Wade's reckless, relentless playing style had left him banged up and down a...

<SBG>I strolled over to the ESPN.COM power rankings on Monday and found our Timberwolves ranked 30th out of 30 teams in the NBA. Take that with a grain of salt – Mark Stein is not exactly a Wolves lover – but there can be no doubt that the Best GM in all of Sport [...]...

Jayhawk star Mario Chalmers has impressed the Heat enough that they signed him to a three-year deal worth a couple million. This makes 5 KU players from the championship team who will be playing for substantial money (Brandon Rush, Darrell Arthur, Darnell Jackson, Sasha Kaun-Russian team). In additi...

The Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls have started a series of NBA summer games. So far, Mario Chalmers, the star of KU's dramatic NCAA victory over Memphis, is getting the better of #1 draft pick Derrick Rose. (Much like he did in the NCAA championship game.) Chalmers fell to the second round of the dra...

Does this play look familiar? Still gloating......

Kansas is the 2008 NCAA basketball champions. Trailing by three points as time was running out of the game, Mario Chalmers made a Michael Jordan like three point shot to send the game into overtime. Both Memphis and Kansas are......

You have to admire a national championship game in which most of the final possessions late in regulation are fast breaks. In a relentlessly entertaining national championship game, the Kansas Jayhawks win their first national championship in 20 years. Bill Self gets his title, and Mario Chalmers se...