A photo before Game 1 of the Heat-Boston playoff series:

Oh, and there were some empty seats before Game Two last night:

(Credit)
Nice to see Sammy Sosa scoring courtside.
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Kyle Weidie of the WASHINGTON CITY PAPER reports today that the NBA’s Washington Wizards discontinued a “homophobic gimmick” last January.

Weidie noted, “just before a game against the Denver Nuggets, the Wizards stopped running the Kiss-Cam Ambush gimmick.”
What happened? Team spokesman Brian Sereno indicates that the practice was halted due to a complaint—though he won’t say […]

Tuesday Mark Cuban offered the KZTK-FM listening audience in Texas an authoritarian authoritative analyses of sports journalism and how it has been impacted by the faltering media business model.

In the video above, I’ve snipped some highlights of Cuban’s claims about the wretched state of the sports reporting - which he attributes to the fractured financial […]

Former NBA referee Rashan Michel was arrested for starting an altercation with Dominique Wilkins at Philips Arena after a Hawks game last night. As you can see, Wilkins finished the altercation:

(Michel Booking Info)
Michel claimed to the arresting officers that Wilkins owed him money for suits he allegedly sold to the ex-NBA star “several years […]

You heard me.

DISCLAIMER: Before you click through to the video, no, you can’t have those :53 seconds of your life back.

January 14, 1964 is the most important day in NBA history.

(Video below courtesy Mike Trudell at Lakers.com)
That day the best players in the game, including Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, barricaded themselves in Boston Garden locker rooms before the NBA’s 14th annual All-Star Game - refusing to play.
Before the season NBA players had […]

An ESPN documentary on the 1991-93 Michigan basketball team premiered last Sunday.

Contained in the retrospective was former Wolverine Jimmy King offering this analysis of former Duke Blue Devil Grant Hill:
“I thought Grant Hill was a bitch.”
Hill, whose two NCAA basketball championships at Duke included a 71-51 tournament final win over King’s Michigan in 1992, […]

Last month I reported that Allen Iverson, who was playing for a pro team in Turkey at the time, had suffered a leg injury and would likely return to the United States to have it examined by an American doctor.

At that time, Iverson’s manager sounded hopeful that his client would return to his Turkish team […]

Curious about the scenery in Los Angeles for NBA All-Star Weekend?

Black celebrity gossip blogger Sandra Rose administers two group shots outside an L.A. establishment last weekend with the accompanying copy:

From the official Twitter account of Staples Center today:

Embarrassing.
Sam Perkins a legend? Please.