2009 NBA draft Summary

Posted on June 25, 2009 by dinogomez22

Blake Griffin was drafted one and Hasheem Thabeet second as predicted, but James Harden was drafted third which was a slight surprise. As soon as his first name rang into the microphone from the voice of David Stern, Harden bumped his chest. He’s off to Oklahoma City to play for one of the worst  franchises [...]

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Lebron James and Shaquille O’neal are Teammates

Posted on June 25, 2009 by dinogomez22

It was discussed a ton last night and has become official today, Shaquille O’neal is now a Cavalier alongside Lebron James. This deal happens just hours before this year’s NBA draft and mainly because Shaq wanted it to happen.  Really though as forementioned in an earlier post, most hall of fame players tend to just [...]

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Trade News

Posted on June 24, 2009 by stone86

Here’s a quick update on some developing trade news.  The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to send Mike Miller and Randy Foye to the Washington Wizards.  In return the Timberwolves receive Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila, Oleksiy Pecherov (who?) and the fifth overall pick in tomorrow’s draft.  This means that Minnesota now has both the 5th and [...]

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Best draft picks from second round in past 10 years

Posted on June 24, 2009 by dinogomez22

With the NBA draft another day closer, we have decided to recall the best draft picks from the second round in the past 10 years. These players were selected at positions where a career normally doesn’t exist for them  in the NBA after a matter of 3 or 4 years. We will start with the [...]

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Richard Jefferson Traded to Spurs!

Posted on June 23, 2009 by dinogomez22

Richard Jefferson was traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to the San Antonio Spurs today in what I will immediately call a Blockbuster trade. With Jefferson at the small forward position on a previously contending Spurs team, all of a sudden they are youthful again. Well they are more youthful because they recieved Jefferson and dished [...]

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Kid does front flip then hits 3/4 court shot

Posted on June 22, 2009 by dinogomez22

Almost everybody has made one miraculous shot on the basketball court at least once in their life. When you do make an amazing shot, a few things almost always certainly happen. The first is that normally nobody is around to see it. The second is if people are there to see it they almost always [...]

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James Harden and Gilbert Arenas Twins?

Posted on June 22, 2009 by dinogomez22

The NBA draft is only three days out and the only thing that is certain is that everything is uncertain. Teams in the past years at three days out almost always knew which players were going to be available when their turn to pick was up and they knew which players they’ll most likely decide [...]

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Happy Fathers Day

Posted on June 20, 2009 by dinogomez22

As promised a few articles ago, we are bringing you more Bill Walton. Whether it be the best impersonation of Bill ever or a story about how he bought a new Tie-die t-shirt, we will continue to cover him. This time we bring you footage from exactly a year ago today on Fathers Day during [...]

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Nike Connects Ballers on Facebook to Street Games

Posted on June 20, 2009 by dinogomez22

If you haven’t heard about what Nike has been doing on Facebook then your stoked I’m sharing this with you. For over a year now Nike has had a program on the 200 million people plus social networking site, Facebook, called “Ballers Network”. This program is an application for basketball players to add to their [...]

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What does this Lakers Championship really mean?

Posted on June 20, 2009 by dinogomez22

An article by David Peterson. I have heard it over a hundred times…”Kobe can’t win a championship without Shaq“. ESPN made sure to tagline this past finals series between the Lakers and Magic as Kobe’s quest for a ring of his own. But can the Lakers recent title be watered down to simply acknowledging that [...]

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