Jerry Buss, the flamboyant owner of the Los Angeles Lakers who personified the team’s “showtime” legacy of the 1980s, died Monday. He was 80. Buss had been struggling with cancer over the last year and a half, but the cause of his death was announced as kidney failure by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. [...]
NBA Puts Time Limit On Pre-Game Hijinx; Players Not Happy
October 17, 2012 | Posted by
Don’t look now, but the NBA has instituted another new rule. This one minimizes the time players put on their little performance during pre-game introductions, exhibitions that the league feel is slowing down the start of games. Seriously. Starting this season, as soon as player introductions are finished, there will be 90 seconds put on [...]
Dwyane Wade Takes Leap From Jordan To China
October 9, 2012 | Posted by
It’s official: Dwyane Wade has landed a new shoe contract with Li-Ning, a Chinese sportswear provider, giving Wade his own brand in the company along with strategic input and a massive of amount of creativity. The Heat are currently visting Beijing on a NBA China Games tour, where Li-Ning is located and the partnership will [...]
Phil Jackson Chimes In On Shaquille O’Neal-Dwight Howard Rift
October 6, 2012 | Posted by
Retired championship coach Phil Jackson chimed in on the Shaquille O’Neal-Dwight Howard spat, saying “there’s a lot to what (O’Neal) says. O’Neal classified Howard as the third best center in the NBA, behind Andrew Bynum and Book Lopez, saying they are “true” centers and that Howard is a “pick-and-roll” center. Jackson seemed to agree with [...]
Charles Barkley: LeBron James Can Eclipse Michael Jordan
October 5, 2012 | Posted by
Charles Barkley said LeBron James can be better than Michael Jordan. Said it with a straight face, too. Of course, Jordon is an iconic figure that many believe is the greatest player of all time. James just won his first NBA title in June. Jordan has six. Kobe Bryant, the closest thing to Jordan so [...]
Dwight Howard, Shaquille O’Neal Feud Heats Up
October 5, 2012 | Posted by
Dwight Howard, the newest addition to the Los Angeles Lakers, responded to former Lakers star and current TNT analyst Shaquille O’Neal on Thursday about comments he made last week in a roundtable discussion that was posted on NBA.com. In the discussion, O’Neal said Howard was the third best true big man in the game behind [...]
LA Lakers Set To Honor Greats Abdul-Jabbar, Wilkes And O’Neal
August 31, 2012 | Posted by
The Los Angeles Lakers announced plans on Thursday to immortalize three of the organization’s greatest players at various points next season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Keith Wilkes and Shaquille O’Neal will each be honored on different dates for their tremendous career accomplishments in the purple and gold. The Lakers plan to first fete Abdul-Jabbar prior to the [...]
Chad Johnson Arrested For Head-Butting Wife Evelyn Lozada
August 12, 2012 | Posted by
It did not take long for the “new” Chad Johnson and his new bride to create drama straight out of a reality TV show. And it could jeopardize Johnson’s position with the Miami Dolphins. The former Chad Ochocinco allegedly head-butted his newlywed wife, Evelyn Lozada, during an argument in front of their home near Miami. [...]
Comic-Con: Shaquille O’Neal, ‘The Black Panel’ Take On Lack of Diversity Among Comic Book Artists
July 14, 2012 | Posted by
“Culture eats strategy for lunch.” That was probably the most intriguing thought to surface on Friday morning during a session that was bluntly titled “The Black Panel” at Comic-Con International. Oddly enough, the maxim was attributed to Laura Ziskin, the now-deceased film producer who made a hit of the “Spider-Man” series. Ms. Ziskin’s words — [...]
Shaquille O’Neal Joins Chris Rock and Andy Samberg in Cast of ‘Grown Ups 2′
June 2, 2012 | Posted by
In the few short years since Funny People was released, Adam Sandler has made it his goal to outdo the fake terrible movies that his character did in Judd Apatow’s film. The nadir of his inexorable downward slope will probably be next year’s Grown Ups 2 and he’s bringing along new faces. While we already [...]
