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...
View ArticleLeBron 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...
View ArticleMarreese 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...
View ArticleDaily 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLeBron 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...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 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....
View ArticleDime 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...
View ArticleJohn 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:...
View ArticleEvan 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...
View ArticleDurantula 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...
View ArticleDone 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...
View ArticleDime 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...
View ArticlePlayers 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...
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