What label is that, you might ask? One thing’s for certain: it most assuredly isn’t the title of “Kobe Stopper.” Perhaps “Kobe Ignitor,” but definitely not stopper. No, the label Jones is trying his hardest to live up to is that of a dirty player. While Jones has always [...]

We left you last week with a nice little dunk of Courtney Lee over LeBron James, and after a three-day weekend, we find the news is repeating itself. What we have is Lee demonstrating the lesson he learned after LeBron’s filthy block in the previous half — that is, dunk the ball when you [...]

A possession or two before Courtney Lee splashed James on a nice breakaway, LeBron volleyball spiked another one of Dwight Howard’s dunk attempts with an awesome, awesome block (the block in the second half, not the first). I guess this was Courtney Lee’s way of having Dwight’s back, while providing a little payback to [...]

“They call me the Superman dunker… But something’s wrong, something’s wrong with these rims.”
By the time everything was said and done, Dwight Howard dismantled Cleveland’s shot clock, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu were absolute money in the fourth quarter, and the Cavaliers wasted what was the best playoff performances by a Cleveland player, perhaps ever, [...]

Before I go into this post, it should be noted I’m not a Denver Nuggets fan. I am, however, pulling for the underdog in the series, so I suppose that puts me in the “De facto” category. Besides the proliferation of Lakers fans — Where were these folks in the regular season? — [...]

Did the Game 1 loss take Denver’s confidence away or is going to give them resolve going forward? A two-point loss in a playoff game you could’ve/should’ve won can be absolutely debilitating for a team’s confidence, but it doesn’t sound like the Nuggets are hanging their head — at least Chauncey Billups isn’t:
“I’m disappointed, [...]