Dwight Howard and 10 Other Players Who Recently Demanded to Be Traded [VIDEOS]
The NBA is abuzz over Dwight Howard’s demand to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets.
The NBA is abuzz over Dwight Howard’s demand to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets.
All signs point to the New Orleans Hornets taking Kentucky standout Anthony Davis with the first pick of Thursday’s NBA Draft. Davis is widely considered to be the most NBA-ready player in the crop of players vying for the top spots. If the Hornets do select Davis, he’ll instantly be shouldered with the burden of turning around the struggling franchise.
In 2010, DJ Khaled released a song called ‘All I Do Is Win,’ in which he vowed to never stop winning in the rap game. Fast forward to 2012, and the city of Miami is winning as their team the Miami Heat are now NBA champions for the second time.
The NBA Finals gets underway on Tuesday. Two of basketball’s most explosive stars will go up against each other in Kevin Durant and LeBron James. While they have each seen success, neither has a ring yet. Who will get their first and who will win more of them?
The conference finals have kicked off in the NBA. Each of the four teams has potential to win a ring, but which match up do you want to see the most?
NBA rookie of the year, Kyrie Irving, goes undercover at a pickup basketball game, dressed as the aging “Uncle Drew.”
Kids these days are so mischievous — always pulling stunts like putting whoopee cushions on the teacher’s chair, hiding their little sister’s favorite doll and getting the face of their favorite NBA star shaved into the back of their head.
When the Brooklyn Nets unveiled in April their black-and-white logo, which was approved by part owner Jay-Z, it drew a wide range of reactions. Particularly, from New York Post sports columnist Phil Mushnick who felt Jay was “urbanizing” the basketball team.
Any basketball fan already knows that ex-Chicago Bulls player Michael Jordan was, is and always will be considered one of the greatest players ever to hit the NBA, but a recent Jordan-endorsed Gatorade ad is sparking controversy among health professionals.
There are fans and then there are super fans. San Antonio couple John Paul and Crystal Dennison would appear to fall into the latter category, as the new parents have named their identical, newborn twin sons Tony Parker and Tim Duncan after the San Antonio Spurs’ superstars.
Just a couple of weeks after making a much buzzed-about appearance at the Grammy Awards, Chris Brown picked up another high-profile gig over the weekend, performing at the NBA All-Star Game with Pitbull.
2011 was a wild year in the world of sports. Sadly, much of the drama occurred off the field and left many of us vainly searching for an answer to the question, “How could they have let this happen?” But fortunately, there were also a lot of great team and individual accomplishments to be enjoyed this year. GuySpeed look