The NBA’s 10 Best Dunks This Week
A number of mainstays of the top 10 dunks of the week are featured, including Chicago’s resident creator of posters, as well as two former teammates with the Oklahoma CIty Thunder serving up facials on...
View ArticleWarriors & Clippers Clash Off The Court Following Game 7
After the Clippers ended a brutal week by defeating the Warriors in Game 7 late Saturday night, 126-121, their battle raged outside the locker-rooms, too. A heated verbal altercation broke out in the...
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GIF: Stephen Curry Channels Magic Johnson With Around-The-Back Dime In LA
Kobe Bryant, Stephen Curry (Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports) The Warriors rolled the Lakers at Staples Center Sunday night, 136-115, and that was even after the Lakers outscored them by 15 in the...
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Mo Speights On Scoring 28 Points VS Thunder: “Shout Out To [Kendrick] Perkins”
Marreese Speights (Kyle Terada, USATODAY) Reserve big man Marreese Speights played his best game of an excellent season in the Golden State Warriors’ 88-84 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder last...
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GIF: Steph Curry, Mo Speights, Warriors Throw Football At Practice
Stephen Curry (photo. r/nba GIF) Football season is nearing its zenith, and even professional basketball players are excited. Watch Steph Curry, Mo Speights, and the Golden State Warriors show off...
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Video: Tyson Chandler Swats Marreese Speights’ Shoe Into Courtside Seats
Tyson Chandler (photo. Marco Romo Vine) The Dallas’ Mavericks Tyson Chandler doesn’t have any official blocks in today’s game versus the Golden State Warriors. But the impact of true rim-protectors...
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GIF: Stephen Curry Shows Off His Handle Before Dime
Stephen Curry, Chris Paul (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) This play tricked us. Early in the first quarter of the Warriors-Clippers game last night, Stephen Curry went behind his back before...
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Andrew Bogut Falls Asleep On A Table Of Cash During A Warriors Plane Party
Via Instagram Since the advent of chartered planes for NBA teams, it’s always fascinating to watch players fly in such opulent accomodations. They can even play high stakes card games in luxury as was...
View ArticleSteph Curry Nearly Loses Ball Before Flipping No-Look, Behind-Back Dime To Mo...
What else is there to say? Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry makes plays like this one so frequently that the team’s play-by-play man, Bob Fitzgerald, was more impressed with Mo Speights...
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Marreese Speights On Stopping LeBron: ‘It Can Be Done. We’re The Best Team In...
Getty Image Marreese Speights isn’t exactly a defensive maven. The Golden State Warriors big man has been known as a chucker first and foremost throughout his career, and rightfully so. The 27-year-old...
View ArticleHere’s Marreese Speights Hilariously Blowing A Wide-Open Dunk
There are some moments where the outcome is inevitable, as if you know the result even before it happens. When Marreese Speights got the ball on the break, you just knew, somehow, that it was going to...
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LeBron Makes Mo Speights Pay For Tweet, Dunks Him To Death
During the string of strange events in the lead up to Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers began exchanging barbs about who’s a man and who isn’t; always very...
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Marreese Speights Predicts Steph Curry Will Drop 50 Points In Game 7
Getty Image The wheels kind of fell off for the Warriors at the end of Thursday’s Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but Marreese Speights still believes in his squad. The Golden State forward penned a piece...
View ArticleMarkieff Morris Dropped The Sledgehammer On Marreese Speights With This...
On Friday night, we learned that Markieff Morris has no qualms about putting his twin brother on the wrong side of highlight-reel play. Not surprisingly, it turns out he has even less regard for those...
View ArticleMarreese Speights Just Obliterated Tyreke Evans With This Poster Jam
Jamal Crawford is the Clippers’ reigning Sixth Man of the Year, but Marreese Speights has been a revelation for L.A. this season. The big man isn’t necessarily known for his athleticism, so it was a...
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Daily Fantasy Diagnosis: 4.15
Stephen Curry (Photo. Nicky Woo) Beast of the Night: Stephen Curry finished his stellar first season in the NBA with a bang, finishing with 42 points, 4 threes, 9 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, 1 block...
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The trade bringing Evan Turner, Elton Brand to Indiana
Elton Brand The funniest thing about the NBA Draft Lottery is how team reps try to balance acting happy about getting a high pick with looking sufficiently disappointed that their team was bad enough...
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The 76ers need to draft Derrick Favors
Derrick Favors As much as John Wall appears to be a lock for the Washington Wizards with the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, Evan Turner has been penciled into the Philadelphia 76ers lineup by almost...
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LeBron sets a date; Who’s the lucky franchise?
LeBron James (photo. Mannion) What constitutes “news” these days? It was already getting hard to tell after the past week of one million made-up rumors and random speculation, but then this...
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Philadelphia 76ers 2010-11 NBA Season Preview
Evan TUrner (photo. Li-Ning) As the NBA regular season approaches, we preview the upcoming campaign with the “Highs and Lows” system — predicting the respective ceiling and basement for each team....
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Dime NBA Power Ranking: There’s a new No. 1 in town
Blake Griffin (photo. Nicky Woo) Ranking the NBA from worst to first… 30. Los Angeles Clippers (2-13) Last week — Lost at Minnesota, lost at Indiana, lost to New York, beat New Orleans Congratulations...
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John Wall returns in style; Chicago burned by L.A.’s Killer B’s
What was originally billed as a matchup between the No. 1 and No. 2 picks of the 2010 NBA Draft — John Wall and Evan Turner — became the most interesting NBA game of the night for another reason:...
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Evan Turner: The Forgotten
Evan Turner (photo. Li-Ning) For an NCAA national Player of the Year and No. pick in the NBA Draft, Evan Turner has a curiously low profile and an even lower set of expectations. While most athletes in...
View ArticleAndre Iguodala’s Insane Mid-Air Over-The-Shoulder Dime
Sure Andre Iguodala finished last night’s loss to the Pacers with one point (0-for-7 from the field) in 33 minutes, but he did manage to drop seven dimes – including this gem to Marreese Speights for...
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Durantula matches The Blake Show with 47-point explosion
Kevin Durant (photo. Jared McMillen) It takes a lot to overshadow a 31-point, 21-rebound effort by Kevin Love in his own gym, but Kevin Durant did it last night by dropping 47 points (15-28 FG, 13-14...
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Done Deal: Hasheem Thabeet To Houston For Shane Battier
Hasheem Thabeet (photo. Nicky Woo) We had the rumor earlier today, but the Grizzlies and Rockets made it happen. Here’s the final deal: Houston sends Shane Battier and Ish Smith to Memphis for Hasheem...
View ArticleSo Close: 7 Trades That Almost Went Down Before The Deadline
Another year, another NBA Trade Deadline gone by. As you probably would expect, the Dime office was Ground Zero today for anything and everything trade related. Whether it was Twitter, texts or phone...
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Dime Q&A: Vernon Macklin Talks NBA Draft & Billy Donovan
Vernon Macklin (photo. University of Florida) After seeing limited action his first two seasons at Georgetown, Vernon Macklin thought it was time for a change. So he decided to transfer to Florida, and...
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Players Contemplating Moves Outside Of The NBA; Jeff Van Gundy Calls Yao Ming...
Kobe Bryant (photo. Mannion) Imagine this: Amar’e Stoudemire putting up elbow jumpers in the Holy Land. Kobe posting up in Rome after a stroll down the Spanish Steps. And most realistically, Deron...
View ArticleMarreese Speights Throws Down Thunder On JaVale McGee Twice
Just a few days into “The Lockout League” and we’ve already seen a handful of highlights. But does it get any better than dunking on someone twice in one game? Marreese Speights sized up JaVale McGee...
View ArticleThe Best Of Week 1 At The “Lockout League” In Vegas
If and when the season does start, these guys will be ready… What do you think? Follow Aron on Twitter at @the_real_aron. Follow Dime on Twitter at @DimeMag. Become a fan of Dime Magazine on Facebook...
View ArticleRudy Gay Shows Out In His First Game Back From Injury
He’s back. After getting up with Rudy Gay last week in NYC, he told me that he could not wait to get back on the court. And after a positive report from the doctor on Monday, that’s exactly what he...
View ArticleThe Definitive “Lockout League” Mixtape
While exhibition games are cool, there’s nothing quite like basketball in league form. And with the NBA on hold, this month’s “Lockout League” at Impact Basketball in Las Vegas brought us the next best...
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NBA Fantasy Team Analysis: The Philadelphia 76ers
Jrue Holiday (photo. Nicky Woo) The Philadelphia 76ers have fantasy value pretty evenly spread across each position on their roster – except for the center spot. While there’s no outright stud, the...
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NBA Trade Rumor: Marreese Speights To The Denver Nuggets
Marreese Speights Now that Philadelphia has re-signed Thaddeus Young and Spencer Hawes, they’re focusing their attention toward trading Marreese Speights. And who better to acquire the 6-10, 255-pound...
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Report: Sixers, Hornets, Grizzlies Agree to 3-Team Deal
Marreese Speights It’s been well-known that the Sixers and Grizzlies have been talking about a deal involving Philly big man Marreese Speights going back to last year. Now, pushed along by the Memphis...
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Report: Zach Randolph Will Miss Up To 2 Months With Knee Injury
Zach Randolph (photo. Nike) This all started with a collision. O.J. Mayo on Zach Randolph. Z-Bo went crashing to the floor in the same way Andrew Bynum seems to every spring, courtesy of a teammate and...
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Derek Fisher Beats Dallas; Boston Loses Their 5th Game In A Row
Derek Fisher Well that was ugly. On a night where the big stories were supposed to be Lamar Odom‘s return to Staples and Kobe‘s shot at a fifth-consecutive 40-point game, neither side could hit a shot...
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Dime NBA Power Rankings, Vol. III: OKC Looks Worthy Of The Finals
John Wall (photo. Rob Hammer) Ranking the NBA from worst to first … 30. Washington Wizards (1-12) LW: 30, — Well, at least John Wall finally had a big game yesterday against Houston (38 points) because...
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Jeremy Lin Shows Off A New Trick; Two Overlooked Stars Go Crazy
We knew he could drop buckets and strut around like a much smaller Rick Ross, but last night was the first time those Steve Nash comparisons actually started to make sense. Lob. Wrap-around. Another...
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Daily Fantasy Basketball Diagnosis: 2.16
Josh Smith (photo. Blake Peterson) Beast of the Night: Josh Smith exploded for 30 points, 17 rebounds, seven assists, four steals, three blocks and two three-pointers last night. He shot 52 percent...
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Daily Fantasy Basketball Diagnosis: 3.14
Josh Smith (photo. Blake Peterson) Beast of the Night: Josh Smith busted out something nasty last night, to the tune of 33 points, 13 rebounds, seven assists, one steal, two blocks and two...
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Memphis Does Not Make A Qualifying Offer To O.J. Mayo, Boston Is Now In...
O.J. Mayo O.J. Mayo could never quite find the right role on the Memphis Grizzlies. With Rudy Gay and Zach Randolph eating up shot attempts and Mike Conley controlling the ball at the point, Mayo never...
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The Questions Every Western 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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Phoenix Gives The Green Light To Michael Beasley; Minnesota Figures Out Life...
Michael Beasley (photo. Dime China) Friday meant the final day of the preseason, which means there are no more chances to prove why fringe players are worthy of making a 15-man roster. There are about...
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Report: Memphis Trades 2 Key Bench Players To Save Money, Plans To Sign...
According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, Memphis has agreed to a multiplayer trade with Cleveland that’ll take $6 million off their payroll and get them under the luxury tax line. Remember all those...
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Boston Grasps Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory; The Lakers Figure Out How To...
Kyle Korver (photo. Converse) Each time we checked in with the Hawks vs. Celtics it was like watching a different game. In the first half the Celtics were on cruise control and it almost looked as if...
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NBA Power Rankings Vol. I: Move Over LeBron James
Ricky Rubio (photo. adidas) The NBA regular season, at least for the teams that hold visions of championships, is just an 82-session practice for the playoffs. So rather than worry about who is the...
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Monta Ellis Saves The Bucks; Amar’e Stoudemire Leads A Huge New York Comeback
Monta Ellis One of the best games all season went down in Milwaukee last night. With both the Bucks and the Jazz literally playing for their playoff lives, they staged a wild back-n-forth overtime...
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James Harden Drops A Tomahawk Missile On Marreese Speights
During the slate of 13 games on Friday the 13th, the Rockets and Warriors were the last two teams to play. While the Dubs were coming off an exciting win over the Mavs, Houston was their black cat on...
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