Miami’s Winning Streak Is Now 20; The Nuggets Ruin Carmelo Anthony’s Homecoming
The word of the day yesterday was white smoke (well, technically that’s two words). In the NBA, the word was twenty, as in Miami has now won 20 games in a row after bludgeoning Philly down the stretch...
View ArticleUtah Moves Into Final West Playoff Spot; Kobe Bryant & Shaq Are Friends Again
Two weeks ago, we pronounced Utah dead, a casualty of a terrible stretch of scheduling and the expected rise of the Lakers. Now? They’ve won six games in a row, and have a half game lead on L.A. for...
View ArticleThe Eastern Conference’s Most Disappointing Players This Season
The marathon NBA season came to its end last week and for some, it’s a blessing in disguise. Everyone had players that didn’t live up to expectations this season. We are going to look at some of these...
View ArticleHow To Fix The Atlanta Hawks: Let Josh Smith Leave, Sign O.J. Mayo & Rebuild...
The second round of the playoffs is underway and with only eight teams remaining, it means another eight have been eliminated from title contention. The offseason is the time for these teams to retool...
View ArticleThe Best Current NBA Player From Each Of The 50 States
We all have a hometown. Whether you loved it or couldn’t wait to leave it, it’s a part of who you are. There’s something about your hometown that just sticks with you, whether it’s the people you meet,...
View ArticleReunited: The Top 10 NBA “Homecomings” You Should Be Excited About This Season
This season, we’ll see what feels like an unprecedented number of players and coaches reunited with their former teams. After a flurry of offseason moves, we’re taking a moment to celebrate some of the...
View ArticleMonta Ellis Says He Did “60 Percent Of Everything” Before Joining Mavs
The Mavericks lost out on free agent Dwight Howard to their in-state rivals, Houston, this summer. But they did refurbish a backcourt that was trotting out journeyman Mike James as a starter towards...
View Article8 Keys To Watch For In The NBA Playoffs This Weekend
The NBA postseason is upon us and it should be a great one. The Western Conference has three can’t-miss first-round series, while the elite teams in the East look to get by some of the new faces in the...
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Kevin Durant And OKC Spare No Mercy On Los Angeles; Damian Lillard Puts Up...
Kevin Durant (photo. Nike) Before Ric Bucher left ESPN this fall, he tweeted one of the more interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets to take into consideration whenever Oklahoma City and the Lakers play....
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Fantasy Basketball: The 5 Best Pickups Of The Week (1.22)
FRESH PICKINGS Devin Harris (26 percent owned in Yahoo!, nine percent in ESPN) Lou Williams, one of the NBA’s biggest spark plugs, recently suffered a devastating knee injury which will keep him out...
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Fantasy Basketball: The 3 Best Pickups Of The Week (1.28)
Avery Bradley This week’s pickups list comes with some good and bad news. Let’s just get the negative stuff out of the way first. You could probably do better than this edition’s Fresh Pickings. After...
View ArticleDevin Harris Adorably High-Fives Two Young Fans After Diving For A Loose Ball
NBA players are people too, lest we ever forget that. The latest wonderful example comes from Thursday night’s game between Dallas and Portland. Mavericks guard Devin Harris dove for a loose ball and...
View ArticleDevin Harris Nailed A Crazy And-One Circus Shot Against The Rockets Friday Night
With time winding down in the first half in Dallas on Friday night, Devin Harris took the ball the length of the court, absorbed the contact from Patrick Beverly, threw up a prayer and got the shot to...
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Carmelo Anthony’s First Quarter Toasts The Lakers; Damian Lillard Steals A...
Carmelo Anthony (photo. Mannion) The Knicks have laid a tripwire around Madison Square Garden this season, staying undefeated there by springing a first-quarter trap on the Lakers en route to a 116-107...
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The Worst Call Of The Season Resulted In Four Mavs Technicals And An Ejection
NBA League Pass Being an NBA ref is a truly thankless job. Every night, the pinstripes have to deal with over-inflated egos while making split-second decisions in one of the fastest and toughest...
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Fantasy Trade Analysis: Deron Williams To The Nets
Deron Williams The big NBA news today (so far, at least) is a deal that sends Deron Williams to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for Devin Harris, Derrick Favors, two first-round draft picks and $3...
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Carmelo Anthony scores 27 in Knicks debut; Brandon Roy is back
Carmelo Anthony, Dime #53 Some debuts, for all their hype, are ultimately quiet and relatively forgettable. That was not the case for Carmelo Anthony with the New York Knicks last night. Some of the...
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B-Roy’s Franchise Flashback; Carmelo’s Game 2 letdown
Brandon Roy (photo. Aaron Hewitt) You thought Brandon Roy was done, didn’t you? With questions still unanswered of whether he came back too early (again) from double knee surgery, whether he could...
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Jesus Shows up for the Celtics in Utah; meet the NBA’s Newest Closer
Jesus showed up in Utah last night. With the Celtics getting pushed for the third straight game out west, Ray Allen‘s fourth quarter was more classic than any interview Charlie Sheen could ever give....
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The Magic Shock the Heat and North Carolina Lands a Monster Recruit
24-point comebacks are awesome. 24-point comebacks are great TV. But 24-point comebacks can also be disturbing because they take everything you thought you knew and turn it upside down. It appears as...
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Daily Fantasy Diagnosis: 3.4
LeBron James Beast of the Night: LeBron James posted 29 points, six rebounds, four assists and two blocks last night in an epic fail against the Magic. He shot 69 percent (11-16) from the field, 100...
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Dime Q&A: Gordon Hayward Talks Utah Jazz & March Madness
Gordon Hayward (photo. Utah Jazz) The butler did it…again. Yesterday’s miraculous buzzer-beater lay-in by Matt Howard to beat Old Dominion had me reminiscing over Butler’s miraculous run last year to...
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Daily Fantasy Diagnosis: 4.8
Derrick Rose (photo. Skullcandy) Beast of the Night: Derrick Rose trucked the Celtics last night with 30 points, five rebounds, eight assists, two steals and a pair of three-pointers. He shot 56...
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The Top 5 Reasons This Isn’t The 2006 NBA Finals
2006 NBA Finals Many things were different in 2006. Our president was still white, Osama still roamed the deserts and no one had even heard of Soulja Boy. Yet, the NBA was still as competitive as ever...
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DimeBag: The Weekly Dime Mailbag, Volume IV
DimeBag (design. Ryan Hurst) HOW TO SUBMIT: E-mail dimebag@dimemag.com with your question/story/idea and include your name and hometown. Another week, another DimeBag. This week the DimeBag covers the...
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NBA Fantasy Team Analysis: The Utah Jazz
Al Jefferson (photo. Bethany Gilbert) The Utah Jazz are a frontcourt-heavy team. They have about 3-4 big men capable of producing usable numbers if given sufficient minutes, which means that unless a...
View ArticleDevin Harris & Michael Finley Practice With Wisconsin
Despite their success as a program, only 20 players that attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made it to the NBA. And until Alando Tucker makes it back in from the D-League, that leaves...
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Report: D-League’s Jamaal Tinsley To Sign With The Utah Jazz
Jamaal Tinsley (photo. NBA D-League) Chances are Jamaal Tinsley was going to be the first Gatorade Call-Up of the 2011-12 NBA Development League season, but the Jazz beat ’em to the punch. According to...
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Norris Cole Rips Out Boston’s Hearts; The Lakers Finally Win A Game
Dwyane Wade (photo. Jonathan Mannion) The rich keep getting richer. The Heat have a new toy and last night, he dropped 14 points in the fourth, drugged the crowd into chanting MVP for him at the line...
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Ranking The NBA’s 6 Divisions From Worst To Best
James Harden (photo. Nicky Woo) One of the most overlooked aspects of this season so far is how balanced the league has become. It used to be the West had three or four teams who missed the playoffs...
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5 NBA Players Who Could Use A Little More Tony Allen In Them
If there was one player I wished I had been more like growing up, it’s Tony Allen. Not the line drive shooting part. I’m talking about the ruggedness, the defense, the “time to grind” bloodhound that...
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Steve Nash Is All Alone In Phoenix; Utah Is For Real
Tim Duncan (photo. adidas) Okay, so he does have Marcin Gortat (24 points, 15 rebounds). But other than that, Steve Nash is the last man standing in Phoenix. Last year, it looked like their deep trips...
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10 NBA Teams That Need A New Point Guard
Mo Williams Do you need a point guard? With so many little guys infiltrating the NBA these days, you’d think many teams would be aching to ship off some of their smaller contributors. But for every...
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Daily Fantasy Basketball Diagnosis: 1.23 (Weekend Recap)
LeBron James (photo. Jonathan Mannion) Weekend Wonder: LeBron James averaged 28.0 points, 11.0 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.5 blocks in two games over the weekend. He shot 57 percent from...
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Daily Fantasy Basketball Diagnosis: 1.26
Stephen Curry Beast of the Night: Stephen Curry finished with 32 points, six rebounds, seven assists, four steals and six three-pointers last night. He shot 63 percent (12-19) from the field, 67...
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Dime NBA Power Rankings, Vol. V: Miami Takes Back The No. 1 Spot
Kemba Walker (photo. Under Armour) Ranking the NBA from worst to first… 30. Charlotte Bobcats (3-19) Last Week: 29, -1 The worst team in the league. Bar none. Nine straight losses. Their only bright...
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Daily Fantasy Basketball Diagnosis: 4.10
Beast of the Night: Goran Dragic finished with 22 points, two rebounds, seven assists, three steals and four three-pointers. He shot 57 percent (8-14) from the floor and 67 percent (2-3) from the...
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Carmelo Anthony Does It Again; The Truth Gets Busy
Carmelo Anthony (photo. Zach Wolfe) When a crowd is chanting your name on the road, in part because you dropped 21 points in the first quarter, it doesn’t matter if that road crowd is only “road” in a...
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D-Rose is back, D-Wade is hurt, and T-Pain puts Phoenix on the brink
Derrick Rose (photo. adidas) Saturday morning, things looked pretty good for the Heat: All they had to do was beat the craptastic Wizards at home, and if the Bulls lost to the Mavs in a game that...
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Jazz beast Suns for playoff spot; Paul Pierce joins the D-League; Metta Gets...
Al Jefferson (photo. Bethany Gilbert) You see that? That’s what all those people in Boston and Minnesota used to talk about; what all those people in Utah still talk about. Last night, that was Al...
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The Top 10 Bloopers Of The 2011-12 NBA Season
There were some spectacularly embarrassing moments this season. From Nick Young and Vince Carter air balling layups to Devin Harris and Brandon Knight getting showers in the crowd, you needed a thick...
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Memphis Cannot Stop Chris Paul; Utah Gon’ Fishing
Chris Paul (photo. Jordan Brand) Oh, we want to put an asterisk by this so, so bad. But damn, Chris Paul is just too, too good. We can forget that CP and Blake Griffin will probably wake up today with...
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Video: Devin Harris Has An Amazing Chase-Down Block On Tony Parker
There were points in last night’s Spurs win where Devin Harris was truly balling. As we wrote in Smack, he sort of turned his season around in the past five weeks, and at least salvaged a little bit...
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Happy Birthday Tony Parker! His Top 10 Moves In The NBA
Tony Parker The Spurs are now officially old. Okay, so their average age (26.9) is actually the lowest of the Tim Duncan era. But Danny Green, Tiago Splitter and Kawhi Leonard are not the Spurs....
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We Reminisce: Dirk Nowitzki’s Game 7 Three-Point Play In The 2006 Western...
The 2006 Western Conference Semis between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs was a series for the ages – Hall of Famers, a seven-game series and gut-wrenching drama. In particular, the Dallas...
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The 10 Offseason Moves That Matter More Than You’d Expect
Aaron Brooks Believe it or not, there were some other significant moves this offseason than what “SportsCenter” would lead you to believe. Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to the Lakers, Deron Williams...
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Jeremy Lin Could Be Creating His Own Merchandise; The Hawks Go Up-Tempo
Harvard graduate. Rags-to-riches basketball phenomenon. Apparel giant? That is the latest audacious accomplishment Jeremy Lin wants to achieve thanks to a reported line of licensed merchandise he’s...
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The Question Every Eastern Conference Team Needs Answered This Preseason
Preseason is when teams want to work through mistakes and identify the most pressing issues. Camps have now given way to games, which offer a different level of looking at a team’s identity. It would...
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Fantasy Basketball: The Week’s Best Pickups (12.10)
FRESH PICKINGS: Nikola Vucevic (62 percent owned in Yahoo!, 71 percent in ESPN) Although Nikola Vucevic is already heavily owned, his recent string of play should get his ownership up to close to 100...
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Steph Curry Shared A Heartwarming Moment With Devin Harris’ Nephew Before The...
Getty Image Dallas Mavericks guard Devin Harris suffered a personal tragedy last week when his older brother, Bruce, was killed in a car accident. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN, Bruce Harris was...
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