There have been ebbs and flows in terms of how Kobe Bryant is perceived and how he has been portrayed in the media but Bryant has never wavered regarding two things: (1) he has been misunderstood as a person; (2) he has not changed fundamentally as a player (even though "experts" insist that he has ...

There are all kind of people on Twitter. Many take the names of famous people and twitter as them. With more and more celebrities joining Twitter, it has become sometimes hard to figure out which is the real person. So when I got this tweet from “The Real Shaq” I was dubious. I immediate...

When he’s throwing it down like this, it’s no wonder that Nene is the NBA’s leading shooter. Welcome to Part Three of the Field Goal percentage series, where we will take a look at the big fellas and their success flushing the rock. Centres, by nature, play down low and usually sho...

Shaq is so cool, why? Keep reading the snippet below from some dude who's blog is sub titled:   'A how to guide on how not to interact with women.' Does that say it all? Anyway let me tell my joke then to the piece. Shaq was asked where he got his Google Phone he replied, "Don't Worry About It!" Se...

Let me begin by saying that I think the NBA draft has been fixed and may continue to be in the future. Which makes me wonder if I’m ill because I’m about to state in public that I think David Stern is the best commissioner in all of professional sports. That was just one of many startlin...

Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal were the main focus in the days leading up to the All-Star Game--and when the lights came on Sunday night they lived up to all of that advance billing both in terms of entertainment value and production. O'Neal kicked off the festivities with an elaborate dance routi...

All-Star practices typically involve a media availability session followed by the two teams separately running some basic NBA sets, having some shooting contests and calling it a wrap--and today's practices were no exception for the most part, but one interesting wrinkle was that the West team pract...

One of the most obvious subplots for this year's All-Star Game concerns the reunion for a day of Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant with Shaquille O'Neal. For quite some time, O'Neal delighted in taking veiled--and not so veiled--public potshots at his former coach and his former teammate but now every ti...

The basketball gods have chosen to ignore Terry Porter’s prayers for more wins in Phoenix. The Phoenix Suns must be pretty damned happy to be heading home for the All-Star Game, secure in the knowledge that at least someone will be engaging in some stunning play this weekend when Phoenix hosts...

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