The Los Angeles Lakers won Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday night to cut the Boston Celtics’ lead to 3-2 and send the series back to Boston. Los Angeles didn’t play perfectly and they weren’t even all that impressive in the...

Filed under: Celtics , Rockets , Spurs , Boston As the legend of Big Shot Bob dissipates -- Robert Horry might retire this summer, and likely wouldn't be back in a Spurs jersey regardless -- another grows in its place. These days, it's possibly...

Wednesday's conversation with gambler Haralabos Voulgaris prompted a lot of interesting comments and e-mails. An important one came from Voulgaris himself. He posted a comment on the original post that distinguishes his strong feelings about Tim...

Amare Stoudemire in Dime #14 USA Basketball will not hold tryouts this summer, instead hand-picking the men’s Olympic team from its current pool of players. So out of those already in the U.S. program, who would you want on your 12-man squad to...

             That USA Basketball has opted to bypass a final tryout session for the Beijing Olympic roster hardly comes as a surprise. Olympic boss Jerry Colangelo said as much last month.  ...

Knowledge, wisdom, understanding like King Solomon's wealth You're a player but only because you be playin' yourself ... Always fakin' moves, never makin' moves --"Ya Playin' Yaself," Jeru the Damaja, 1994 I am mad at Kobe Bryant. All he had to do...

Celtics 98, Lakers 88. Laker Rationalization #1 The Devil goes 9 for 26 and states that he did so because he "missed a lot of bunnies." Now, assuming that he is not talking about snow bunnies in Eagle, Colorado, what he apparently intends to say is...