NBA Has New Version of the 'Bad Boys'
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At least the "Bad Boys" kept their shenanigans on the court when they were wreaking havoc in the NBA. Nowadays there are enough mug shots out there to spawn a new trading card industry. Players are doing and saying things that defy common sense, annoying fans with their high-priced whines. Wins seem to rank only slightly ahead of endorsement opportunities and monster contracts, and those "knuckleheads" Karl Malone once dissed haven't gotten a clue yet.
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In other sports, the All-Star game is a necessary evil. In the NBA, it's the occasion for a party -- and this year's in Vegas will be the biggest yet
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The new young guy for the Knicks, this season&#39;s new young guy, fast and hungry and talented, is Jamal Crawford. He knows all about bad teams, because he has played his whole NBA career with the Bulls.
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Tracy McGrady was traded to Houston in the offseason. He was the guy who could score 50 points a night, but his team would lose by 20.
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Shaquille O'Neal is going to stick with his new look for a while.
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Michael Jordan helped make the shaven-head look ubiquitous in the N.B.A., but for a new generation of hoopsters, hair is back.
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New talk of adding European teams to the National Basketball Association within a decade has some appeal to the league's European stars, but they want to see the details.
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The NBA picked a fine time to turn its All-Star game into a referendum on good behavior, what with the extravaganza being held in Sin City.
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It&#39;s almost old news now. Even those who don&#39;t follow the game of basketball have watched video clips of the now infamous Nov. 19 melee during a game between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers.
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The National Basketball Association will return to using leather balls rather than the microfiber composite version that brought numerous complaints from players, ESPN reported.
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When the game film from this one gets passed around from team to team, there is going to be a collective imbibing of hemlock across the NBA. Rajon Rondo is now making threes, too? Who's next, Leon Powe?
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In the modern thrill-a-minute NBA it&#39;s the players who generate the big bucks, and who create the league&#39;s (and, to a significant extent, the country&#39;s) latest cultural realities.
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Turns out Ron Artest, his Pacers posse and those few dozen fools in the stands who wanted a piece of them aren't the only people around the NBA who know how to throw a punch.
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NBA Commissioner David Stern did what should have been done a long time ago: He got tough with players who crossed the line and carried violence into the stands.
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The second-worst offensive team in the NBA is about to experience another transformation -- the third stylistic change it has undergone this season -- and if Lawrence Frank has anything
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Kobe Bryant knew something was different in his latest trip home. "I don't have to follow the little fellow around," he said. He's right, Allen Iverson is gone and forgotten. But there's a new A.I. in Philadelphia, and Andre Iguodala is loving every minute of tormenting his hero and reviving the once-lousy 76ers.
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The Nets and the Phoenix Suns are part of a trend that seems to have pervaded this young season: Teams with high expectations that have stumbled out of the gate.