We can smell the playoffs and it’s a great time to be an NBA addict. It’s also a great day to call PinoyNBA’s Pick and Roll:
How can an NBA headline be complete without anything on the Houston Rockets these days? Call it what you want, 21 straight wins is nothing to sneer at. Heck, even [...]
Welcome to PinoyNBA’s new series of articles called Mad Skillz, where we take a look at the signature moves of the NBA’s greatest players. Let’s start off with one of the best centers to play the game - Hakeem Olajuwon and his series of fakes, spins and shots collectively called The Dream Shake.
Olajuwon might [...]
Former Suns guard Kevin Johnson is running for Mayor in Sacramento, California. - Better think about this a thousand more times, KJ. When I first started getting hooked on the NBA, you were one of the players that I really liked who wasn’t named Michael Jordan. Pretty filthy stuff you’re getting into…
Quote of the week [...]
Don’t look now, but the Houston Rockets have pushed their crazy win streak to 18 straight games. Without the services of Yao Ming and Carl Landry, Tracy McGrady (41 pts) led the Rockets to a 106-96 win over the New Orleans Hornets. We were questioning in a previous post how long they can hold this [...]
Ever imagined what it would be like if LeBron James and Kobe Bryant played 2-on-2 with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson? Read this nice article from David Dupree of Sports Illustrated.
LeBron checks it at the top of the key with Kobe on the left wing. The idea is that Kobe will get the ball on [...]
Over at the New York Times, Chuck Klosterman takes a look into how Kevin Garnett keyed the resurgence of the Boston Celtics beyond his scoring, rebounding and defense.
Kobe Bryant is trying to prove that a person’s pinky finger is not very essential to playing dominant basketball. Mamba sticks 30 points total in the 4th quarter [...]
Honeymoon time is over for The Big Cactus and his new club. This is the point were all the excitement is starting to die down and the real-life issues are staring the Suns in the face. Phoenix sports a 5-6 slate ever since shipping away Shawn Marion and have only won two games with Shaq [...]
Can anyone explain to me why Jason Kidd wasn’t involved in the last few plays of the Mavs-Spurs game yesterday? Sir Charles said it best: “There’s no sense in making the Jason Kidd trade,” Barkley said, “if they’re not going to play him in crunch time.”
Bosh goes down with a sore knee. Raptors should be [...]
The game of basketball. Whatever history books say, we Filipinos know that this is our true national sport. Forget the fact that most of us are a foot too short. Any Pinoy kid who ever picked up a basketball imagined himself as Jordan, sailing towards the basket for a highlight dunk. Or as Kobe, drilling [...]