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Uncontested Shots – NBA News, Notes, and Observations From a Self-Described B-Ball Geek

Who’s Calling So Late? I always had this theory about how easy it would be for the police or the FBI to catch illegal sports bookies. All they’d have to do is see which cell phone numbers…Read More

Jason Kidd to Meet With Knicks

With the NBA free agent period less than 24 hours away, teams and free agents around the league are exploring their various options. This does not exclude Hall of Fame point guard Jason Kidd. It is rumored…Read More

Yao Ming’s Career In Limbo

Some major news coming from the Houston Rockets reporting that Yao Ming is likely to miss the 2009-2010 season with the same lingering foot injury that sidelined him in this years playoffs. “At…Read More

The Tuurrible Ten: A Look Back At The Draft

A few years from now a lot of people may look back at Thursday night’s draft as the day the other MJ passed away.  However, I think I will always remember the evening for two other reasons:  1)…Read More

Weekend Video – Jason Kidd Edition

For your weekend viewing pleasure, I’m  going to honor great point guards of the game. For the first weekend edition, my favorite point guard of all time, a true genius…Jason Kidd. Enjoy. Always…Read More

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Complicated in Minnesota

Certainly one of the biggest storylines of yesterday’s draft was Minnesota’s decision to…Read More

Deconstructing the Draft – Blair is a Double Cheeseburger

Two hours before the draft was set to start, I had an opportunity to go and play some pick up basketball.…Read More

Uncontested Shots – NBA News, Notes, and Observations From a Self-Described B-Ball Geek

When did the NBA turn into a fantasy league? I can’t exactly pinpoint when it happened but I’m…Read More

What The Chuck? Questions Heading Into The Draft

Stoudemire:  Why blow up the team now?    As we are now only a couple hours away from the start of…Read More

2009 NBA Draft: FanSided Network Live Blog

The FanSided.com Sports Network proudly presents our first ever network-wide live NBA Draft blog. That’s…Read More

The NBA – Where Multi Player Trades Happen.

Believe it or not, more transactions happened last night beside the Shaq deal. In another deal made last night the Portland Trailblazers moved up two spots in the draft getting the 22nd pick from the…Read More

Is the Town Big Enough For the Both Of Them?

As everyone has probably already heard by now Shaq daddy has been paired up with Lebron James in Cleveland. Here is the story from ESPN.com…here. So what’s this mean for Cleveland fans? Well…Read More

“Point Guard is the Most Important Position”

Being a 5-8 basketball player for my career doesn’t leave me with many options for positions I could play during my time as a player. There was guard and…guard. So that much was predetermined,…Read More

RJ to the Spurs

As reported on by ESPN.com Richard Jefferson was traded to the Spurs earlier today. In return the Milwaukee Bucks received Bruce Bowen, Fabricio Oberto and Kurt Thomas from the Spurs. Look, if you’re…Read More

The Tuurrible Ten: Biggest Stiffs In The NBA

Earlier this week a commenter with the screen name of MrSuspenders (or perhaps it was DeathWarmedOver) asked why NBA teams pay millions of dollars a year to players that barely contribute anything…Read More

Uncontested Shots – NBA News, Notes, and Observations From a Self-Described B-Ball Geek

If this is the first time any of you have heard of me allow me to give you a quick introduction. My name is Andrew Ungvari and I’m a 32-year-old screenwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. During…Read More

Checking In With Charles: BJ’s, Draft Experts & The Clippers

  We’re now just a couple days away from the NBA Draft and Chuck has graciously agreed to stop by to answer some questions: 1)  What do you think of the players in this year’s draft? I ain’t…Read More

Just Your Ordinary High School Game

Came across this video today after hearing of the story in which Montrose Christian Academy played and beat legendary Oak Hill Academy in Washington DC. This was Oak Hill’s only loss of the season…Read More

2009 NBA Mock Draft

# Team Player P School 1 LA Clippers Blake Griffin PF Oklahoma 2 Memphis Hasheem Thabeet C UConn 3 Oklahoma Cty Ricky Rubio PG Spain 4 Sacramento Jrue…Read More

Checking In With Charles: Shaq, LeBron, Phil & More

Charles will be stopping by every week or so to answer five questions on a wide variety of topics… 1) Do you think the Cleveland Cavaliers should trade for Shaquille O’Neal? If Shaq joins…Read More

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