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David Stern and the league’s competition committee (which includes Doc Rivers) are mulling ways to deter flopping: The NBA commissioner believes too many players are deceiving referees into calling fouls by falling down, or flopping. So he and the league’s newly reformed competition committee met Monday for a discussion about how it can be prevented. [...]

The Thunder’s Russell Westbrook is having a tough go in the NBA Finals. His play has been erratic and he’s drawing criticism for his stubborn attitude. Sound familiar? The Globe’s Gary Washburn draws a comparison between Westbrook and Rajon Rondo. The difference is… Rondo gets criticized for his lack of aggression, while Westbrook is blasted [...]

Every year, the NBA gathers all of its prospects at the NBA draft combine and measures them all.   Here’s the complete list, courtesy of the NBA, of all of the measurements from the combine. At the end of the list, there’s a click-able PDF file that you can save if you’d like. Player Height [...]

“I just missed,” Durant said. Was there contact? “I really couldn’t tell you. I’ve got to watch the film, I guess.” Are you saying you don’t think you got mugged by LeBron on that last play? You don’t believe you were fouled? “I missed the shot, man.” Durant knew he was fouled. His reaction on [...]

Emperor David Stern got a bit sassy today with the egomaniacal Jim Rome. In his typical douchebag tone, Rome asked Stern if the lottery was rigged. Stern fired back: DS: I have two answers for that. I’ll give you the easy one – No. And the statement – shame on you for asking. JR: I [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder came back from a 13 point deficit and beat the Miami Heat in a thriller of a Game 1 that you had to stick around to watch.   And that turned into ratings gold, as it became the highest rated NBA Finals Game 1 in ABC’s history. The 105-94 win in Oklahoma [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat might be the toughest NBA Finals to call in quite some time.  They are alternately very similar and quite different.  They each boast a 1-2 punch that can be both explosive and inconsistent.  But, as usual, this will be a series that comes down to match-ups, and I [...]

This is why the people who run basketball teams are infinitely smarter than idiot bloggers like me.  Because I would be going to to things like the NBA draft combine and focusing primarily on figuring out who the Celtics could draft at picks 21 and 22.  But the Celtics and the Spurs, two of the most [...]

We’ve been counted-out. Again. NBA Store now has OKC “Beat the Heat” shirts for sale. h/t to Kim S. [...]

Twitter / Pflanns: Chris Bosh is still a game via kwout Why would Miami play the guy if he's not ready to go full bore?  Either Bosh is ready or he's not…. or Spoelstra is BS'ing us and he'll play 34 minutes. [...]