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What Jeremy Lin has done over the past week far exceeds his statistics, which surpass those of some of the greatest to ever play in the NBA. Lin is delivering the two most valuable commodities in sports: hope and surprise.
All of a sudden, there's optimism in what had been a dismal New York Knicks season, a year filled with injuries and a clogged-up offense. And it's come from the most unlikely of sources: a guy whose contract wasn't even guaranteed until Tuesday. It's come from an undrafted player who was cut by two teams after NBA offices opened for business in December following the end of the lockout. It's come from a guy who was buried...
The schedule says it all. The Houston Rockets, coming off a 34-32 season but with Jeremy Lin now a member of the team, have a nationally televised Christmas-night game in Chicago this season. Anyone wonder why? “We wouldn’t... more »
The cruelty of sports is that a single brain fart can define an entire career. But feel no pity for the idiots on this list: They deserve that permanent dunce cap welded to their pin heads *Note: Since we are all geniuses with... more »
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The championship hopes of the splashiest team ever assembled west of Miami may rest partly on whether Kobe Bryant is good with a former Orlando Magic center who’s gregarious, playful, dominant and can’t... more »
LeBron James has a ring. Oklahoma City has tasted the same bitter tang — a failed Finals — that powered Miami last season. Kobe Bryant has added some historically great teammates. This NBA season — now less than a month... more »
We now know, unequivocally, that this is still Kobe's team. We also know, with even less equivocation, that this is still Metta's World. "I'm happy," Metta World Peace announced. "I'm just happy. Best day of my life. I'm just... more »
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