The ongoing saga between Royce White and the Houston Rockets took an unexpected twist Thursday morning when White walked away from the Rockets’ developmental league team, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, to return to Houston. “Have been advised by our team physician it is most logical I be in Houston the remainder of the season,” White said via [...]
Latrell Sprewell Arrested on New Year’s Eve
January 2, 2013 | Posted by
Former NBA star Latrell Sprewell was arrested on New Year’s Eve and charged with disorderly conduct after Milwaukee police received several phone calls about loud music coming from his residence, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Tuesday. Police declined to give explicit details about the incident, but responded to Sprewell’s house after receiving two complaints within [...]
NBA Commissioner David Stern To Retire In 2014
October 25, 2012 | Posted by
David Stern, who blossomed into the most powerful and influential commissioner in professional sports, announced he is retiring from the NBA, effective February 1, 2014, after what would be 30 years at the helm. A lawyer who took over for Lawrence J. O’Brien in 1984, Stern’s imprint on the league can be found across the [...]
Flopping No Longer Welcomed In The NBA
September 28, 2012 | Posted by
Flopping — that deceiving act of feigning contact — has seen its last days in the NBA. The league is finalizing ways to deal with the trickery designed to fool referees into calling a foul, most likely with fines. NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the competition committee met two weeks ago and discussed plans that [...]
Kobe Bryant Calls David Stern’s Olympic Age Limit ‘Stupid,’ ‘Dumb’
July 18, 2012 | Posted by
All the last few days, former players and even President Obama have lambasted Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant for saying this year’s Team USA could defeat the 1992 Dream Team. Bryant took it with his chin up. Now, he’s delivering blows. His target? NBA commissioner David Stern, who tossed around the idea of the [...]
And The Oscar Goes To. . . No Place In NBA For ‘Flopping’
May 15, 2012 | Posted by
“Flopping” in the NBA is when a player goes through exaggerated motions to give the impression he was hit harder than he was to dupe the referee into calling a foul on the opposition. This bad acting is more than norm now than the exception, and commissioner David Stern wants to see it controlled. “I [...]
