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  • Top Five Shooting Guards in the NBA, Going Into 2011-2012

    Dwyane Wade, the 2006 NBA Finals MVP, at 29, is the best in a position that isn’t as deep as it used to be, with the best players among the shooting guards getting a little older. Wade leads our pre-season pick of Ginobili, Monta Ellis, frustrated Eric Gordon and of course and just as frustrated Kobe Bryant, here are the five best shooting guards in the league.

  • Bad Season Starting Signs For Kobe Bryant

    Kobe Bryant making the headlines “thanks” to the divorce papers served to him by his wife are just another serious derailing factor in the beginning of the 2011-2012 season for the Lakers and Bryant, unhappy as ever it seems with not getting Chris Paul and losing Lamar Odom.

  • The ABC’s of the NBA Lockout

    The ABC’s of the NBA Lockout, a few days before we find out if regular season games from the 2011-2012 NBA season are going to start getting cancelled.

  • The Tony Parker and Andrei Kirilenko Method

    Kobe Bryant is about to sign a deal in Italy worth around 6-7 million dollars a season. Tony Parker signed in France for 2000 dollars a week. Andrei Kirilenko? He’s taking a 3 million dollars salary, but giving it away to charity.

  • Kobe Bryant and Derrick Rose Getting Closer to Europe?

    The 2010-2011 MVP,Derrick Rose, hasn’t made a lot of news since the 2011 NBA Playoffs. Now, as the NBA lockout talks enter their must crucial stage, he’s actually entertaining an offer or two from Europe if regular season games get cancelled. Kobe Bryant is finally entering the Union-Owners talks, but also finding the Italian offer very interesting.

  • Kobe Bryant and the Lockout Induced Chinese Adventure

    Right now, the players are losing. Soon enough the checks will stop coming, and players who haven’t landed deals in Europe or other basketball leagues, haven’t saved for a rainy day, aren’t planning on a career change or don’t have some lucrative commercial deal, will be hoping this lockout ends. For players like Kobe Bryant, who is pretty much in a league of his own, times are less troubled.

  • NBA Players Going Overseas

    With no lockout news, progress or anything related, more and more players are signing with European teams and Big names (not including LeBron James) are tempted by the chance to actually play basketball in the near future.

  • Between a New Season, New Champs and the Dreaded NBA Lockout

    Two weeks away before the lockout officially starts. The wonderful 2011 NBA Playoffs still in my mind, and can’t help but thinking about next year. Mostly about LeBron James and the Heat and how the summer will change things there, but the Bulls, Lakers, Tunder and of course the new champs are also there and here. If we don’t have a lockout.

  • The Top Ten Highest Paid Athletes in the World

    Forbes released their annual highest paid athletes list, and we present you the top 10, with three soccer players, two NBA players, one cheating baseball player, one F1 racer, one legendary tennis player and two very rich golfers.

  • Phil Jackson – A Career in Numbers

    It seems over this time. I have no plans to return said Jackson on Wednesday. He did leave an opening for a return. Retirements are never a sure thing in the NBA. But this is his second retirement. Michael Jordan had three, so who knows. If this is the last time Jackson coached an NBA game, here’s a few numbers that stood out during his 21 year NBA coaching career.