NBA Reaches Tentative Deal to Save Season
The NBA's abbreviated season begins Christmas Day (Dec. 25) with a 66-game schedule. The Nuggets were scheduled to face Utah Jazz in Utah on Dec. 26, but that will likely change. The Nuggets currently have seven players under contract, not including The NBA will have a season. We'll get to the Rockets later. A 50-game [...]
Read MoreNBA Lockout Over: NBA Players React To Of Deal Over Twitter
Now that the lockout is over, and the 2011-12 season will take place, the 30 NBA teams will be hustling to get themselves together, signing free agents, putting together training camps, and getting ready to play in an abbreviated period. The Sacramento Kings will have anywhere from $16 to $21.8 million to use in free [...]
Read MoreNBA Lockout Over: NBA Players React To Of Deal Over Twitter
The NBA players and owners have tentatively agreed to a labor deal that would finally end the lockout. Initial reports indicate a 66-game season would begin on Christmas Day. As of Saturday morning there are no reports of heart attacks, fainting, Now that the lockout is over, and the 2011-12 season will take place, the [...]
Read MoreNBA lockout: Owners, players reach tentative agreement
Which is really too bad, as we were planning a wonderful series on the pros and cons of a vegan diet for pro athletes. I suppose you'll just have to suffer as we get back on track to our regularly scheduled programming. Anyone else feel like they just NBA owners, players reach tentative deal Click [...]
Read MoreNBA lockout: David Stern cancels first two weeks of regular season
With a potential lockout on the horizon, charities must rely on other events to make up the difference. McCurdy said, "We have concerts but Thunder is our number one. We rely on them. That's a big load. If they don't get it together, it'll shut us down It seems that every meeting is do or [...]
Read MoreAmerican Express Drives Digital Access to Fans at the 2011 U.S. Open at …
(AP) — Alexander Wolff, a writer at Sports Illustrated for three decades, and Jim Durham, a commentator for the NBA on ESPN Radio, have been selected to receive the Curt Gowdy Media Awards from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The statement came in the wake of Rachel McCoy's unsolicited call to an ESPN [...]
Read MoreDallas Mavs — Partying Where Bron's Mom Was Busted
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban screamed as he danced around the Heat's court with a championship hat slammed tightly around his brow. The Heat celebrated its first championship on the Mavericks' court in 2006. So happy the Mavs won! Maybe Lebron should take his talents to Dallas? Whoop! Whoop! Donn says: Sunday, June 12 2011 [...]
Read MorePerseverance pays off for Nowitzki, Mavs
The Dallas Mavericks have become NBA champions for the first time in their history, as they went through the Miami Heat for that long-awaited title. LeBron James reacts during Sunday night's NBA Finals game against the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki is at rear. When the Dallas Mavericks finished off the Miami Heat in Game [...]
Read MoreMavericks Win First NBA Championship
Way to go, Dallas Mavericks. You won a lot of Celtics fans this post-season, sweeping the Lakers and knocking off Lebron and the Heat. It's great to see Dirk finally win, and it's perhaps even greater to see Lebron Soaked in champagne in their locker room and spraying more around at a Miami Beach club [...]
Read MoreLeBron, Heat's failure something Dirk, Mavericks know all too well
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban screamed as he danced around the Heat's court with a championship hat slammed tightly around his brow. The Heat celebrated its first championship on the Mavericks' court in 2006. Way to go, Dallas Mavericks. You won a lot of Celtics fans this post-season, sweeping the Lakers and knocking off Lebron [...]
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