michael jordan

Hip-hop artist/rapper Chamillionaire was a huge Michael Jordan fan, until he met up with his Airness at a recent party. Let's just say Jordan wasn't kind to Chamillionaire's request for a photo. According to Chamillionaire, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen witnessed the incident and took some pictures with him after the Jordan bitch-slapping. For the [...]

Every time the camera cut away to the Jordan family during Mike's Hall of Fame acceptance speech, I thought – "Who is that chick in the red dress? That can't be his girlfriend can it?" The answer is – Yes. Her name is Yvette Prieto, a Cuban model. Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune says [...]

Via Jess Camerato's Green Street Blog: The Boston Celtics 2008 second round draft pick Semih Erden has yet to play in an NBA game, but he has already defeated one of the Los Angeles Lakers. On Saturday he helped Turkey defeat Pau Gasol and the Spanish team in the EuroBasket 2009 Group F qualifying round. [...]

The reactions by all my fellow bloggers, sports writers, and basketball fans on Twitter during Michael Jordan's speech last night were priceless.  A constant stream of "this is awesome!"…. "this guy's an a-hole"…. "he's sparing no one!".  MJ broke out both barrels and unloaded on all of the people who motivated him throughout the years.  [...]

Q: I read that your grandchild once asked you if you were as good a basketball player as Michael Jordan, but I never read your answer. A: I told him, that’s the wrong question. The question is, was Michael Jordan as good as me. And so begins the interview of Bill Russell by Macleans.ca.  It's [...]

I've made no secret about it… I want Marcin Gortat on the Celtics.  Don't get me wrong… I'm not pretending that he's going to come here and give us 20 and 10.  He's a good back up that can give us some quality minutes.  But the legend of Marcin Gortat continues to grow.  The latest [...]

Maybe I'm romanticizing the past a little bit.  But to me, basketball was at its absolute peak in the 80's.  The play was great.  There were so many great players and good teams.  We had classic individual performances (71 points by David Robinson), classic All Star weekend performances (Bird's "who's finishing 2nd three-point contest win, [...]