The NBA All-Star starters rosters for the 2012 NBA All Star Game were released Friday by the National Basketball Association through its website NBA.com. The NBA announced the starting lineups for the NBA All-Star Game 2012 on Thursday, and a familiar face will be starting at guard for the Western Conference. Kobe Bryant of the [...]
LeBron James talks to Rachel Nichols about working out with Hakeem Olajuwon during the NBA lockout. As the summer has gone by we’ve been hearing about all the different things that LeBron James has been up to. He’s been all around the country doing charity work and playing in different basketball games, he’s filmed a [...]
Congratulations, Mr. Dolan! You’ve landed your prize! You have two, count ‘em two, stars to fill the seats in Madison Square Garden. Carmelo Anthony joins Amar’e Stoudemire for the Knicks and the star power is through the roof now in New York. You have successfully acquired a second NBA All-Star, which is difficult to do [...]
MVP Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Amar’e Stoudemire talk about Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, won by the West 148-143 Sunday in Los Angeles. Kobe Bryant looked awfully “thirsty” Sunday evening. Yeah, his lips were parched. There was enough flour in the corners of his mouth to bake two cakes. To Bryant, that All-Star [...]
Troy “Escalade” Jackson, the larger-than-life streetball legend and younger brother of former NBA player Mark Jackson, died in his sleep early yesterday morning. The 6-foot-10, 400-pound Jackson, 35, was in Los Angeles for NBA All-Star Weekend. The cause of death is unknown pending an autopsy. Jackson, a Jamaica, Queens native, played collegiate basketball at Louisville, [...]
Blake Griffin leaped over a car and threw down a two-handed dunk to the accompaniment of a gospel choir, winning the slam dunk contest before his hometown fans in Los Angeles on NBA All-Star Saturday. The NBA’s All-Star Weekend is a celebration of the game, its celebrities and the celebrities who come to watch (and [...]
Directed by Hype Williams. “All Of The Lights” by Kanye West feat. Rihanna and Kid Cudi with vocals by Fergie, Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Tony Williams, Alicia Keys, La Roux, The Dream, Ryan Leslie, Alvin Fields and Ken Lewis. For a brief moment it almost looked as though notoriously risqué Rihanna was about to tone [...]
Justin Bieber won Most Valuable Player honors at the 2011 NBA All-Star celebrity game on Friday, although his West squad lost to the East team. The Never Say Never star tallied eight points, four assists and two rebounds despite being at a huge height disadvantage in a game featuring former NBA stars and other celebs. [...]
Maurice Lucas, who helped the Trail Blazers win the 1977 NBAchampionship, died Sunday after a long battle with bladder cancer, the team announced. Playing alongside Bill Walton, Lucas averaged a team-high 20.2 points and grabbed 11.2 rebounds per game in 1976-77. Walton named his son Luke after Lucas. A five-time NBA All-Star, Lucas was an [...]
