If college and professional basketball were caught in a Matrix, Brandon Jennings would be an anomaly. He is the glitch in the system. He’s the worm virus that everyone needs to pay attention to because the impact could cause a complete overhaul of the system.
A year ago, Jennings was considered the best high school player [...]

The comparisons are justified and the start of their careers are becoming eerily similar, leading me to believe that Greg Oden is the HD version of Sam Bowie. Ouch!
Back in the 1984 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers committed a basketball sin when they took Bowie, a 7-footer out of Kentucky, and passed on some [...]

Of the 6,711 assists Kevin Johnson has dished out throughout his 13-year NBA career, he recently delivered an even bigger assist to the financially troubled people of Northern California – this time as the Mayor of Sacramento.
A tent city that sprang up in the California state capital of Sacramento and became a symbol of the [...]

Winning a division title probably won’t move the seismograph in Los Angeles, but beating the San Antonio Spurs is always a big deal for the Lakers and it is also becoming a common occurrence.
The Spurs and Lakers are the two dominant teams of this decade, winning a combined six championships and one or the other [...]

Shaquille O’Neal recently called out Stan Van Gundy for being a “nobody” and his whole coaching career has been one big “flop.”
We all know Van Gundy is the Orlando Magic coach and is the brother of Jeff Van Gundy. Dig a little deeper and you find out that he was a longtime assistant for Pat [...]

Their names came across the ticker with very little fanfare, but they could hold the fate of teams contending for an NBA championship. The news read like this: the contracts for Joe Smith and Drew Gooden were bought out by Oklahoma City and Sacramento Kings.
Gooden was traded to the Sacramento Kings as part of the [...]