How DeMarcus Cousins Affects The NBA Fate Of Renardo Sidney & Joshua Smith
If there were a general consensus among NBA scouts of having a “type,” those once-in-a-lifetime prospects that they’ve got to have, then the 6-10, 300-pound big man with a silky jumper and crafty...
View ArticleSignificant Progress Made Towards Ending The NBA Lockout
So no ultimatum? That’s what happened. The thing with this lockout is that it’s entirely too difficult to predict just what’s going to happen. Everyone’s throwing threats, ultimatums and “take it or...
View Article2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer Preview
With the college basketball season underway, the Championship Rounds of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer begin on Nov. 17 at Madison Square Garden with Texas A&M meeting...
View ArticleArizona Stays Undefeated; Syracuse Basketball Coach Involved In Police...
Besides having an insanely fine wife, Steve Lavin is doing a phenomenal job at St. John’s. Coming into their matchup with Arizona last night, they were 3-0, full of life and full of potential. In a few...
View ArticleMonday Madness: College Basketball’s Weekend In Review
OK, college football, you got this one. Responding to a week of college basketball that started strong with ESPN’s 24-hour tip-off marathon, then got scandalous with news of a potential catastrophe at...
View ArticleMonday Madness: Best & Worst Of The College Basketball Weekend
I’ve been to some good games at some great venues – Madison Square Garden for the NBA, CenturyLink Field in Seattle for the NFL, Busch Stadium in St. Louis for Major League Baseball – but I doubt...
View ArticleRenardo Sidney: The 2012 NBA Draft’s Biggest Enigma
From glowing city skylines to gravel country roads, basketball is rich with can’t-miss prospects who somehow, some way, missed. There was L.A.’s Kenny Brunner, swept away in the darker undercurrents of...
View ArticleThe 10 Biggest Losers Of The 2012 NBA Draft
The 2012 NBA Draft has come and gone like Maybach Music Group’s Self Made 2 drop earlier this week. Billed as one of best drafts in recent memory, it didn’t provide the same kind of trade activity that...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Undrafted Players From The 2012 NBA Draft
Every year, some player slips through the cracks and ends up making a team after going undrafted. Recent examples of this trend are Jeremy Lin, Alonzo Gee and Samardo Samuels, players who have carved...
View ArticleThe 25 Most Hyped High School Basketball Recruits Of All Time
We all remember the players from high school that were the hyped uncontrollably, right? You know, the ones that were given notoriety few players at any level can match. From nationally televised games...
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Matty D’s Top 25 College Basketball Preview (15-11)
That’s right, the start of the college hoops season is just one week away and you know what that means: it’s time to unleash the mother effing fury! For the past seven months, I’ve been bottling up a...
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College Basketball’s Top 10 Future NBA All-Stars
Greg Monroe, Georgetown Interesting fact: Of the 28 players that made up this year’s NBA All-Star rosters, 16 of them (57%) were Top-5 Draft picks once upon a time. That could mean nothing. Or it could...
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NCAA Preview: Most Valuable Players in the SEC
Georgia's Trey Thompkins While most of the summer has been focused on the NBA, college basketball will be starting up again in a few weeks. As a basketball team manager at Vanderbilt, the SEC is my...
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Monday Madness: College Basketball Weekend in Review
Arizona's Derrick Williams Five NCAA teams that got my attention this past weekend for various reasons: 1. Arizona (5-1) A national TV win over Kansas would have been a seminal moment for coach Sean...
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New Year’s Resolutions: 2010 Defined By NCAA Violations, Upsets
Renardo Sidney With a New Year upon us, it’s always necessary to recount the past year and make – better yet keep – a few promises to ourselves. Likewise, college basketball surely could use a few...
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Nation’s Leading Shot Blocker Gives Up His Scholarship
Why would Jarvis Varnado, the nation’s leading shot blocker the past two years, give up his scholarship the summer after he tested the NBA Draft waters? No, he wasn’t kicked off the squad – Varnado is...
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