The Mavericks defeated the Chicago Bulls 110-102 last night in a preseason game that featured the debut of No.1 overall pick, point guard Derrick Rose. Gerlad Green scored 18 pts for Dallas, while the Bulls Rose had 10pts in 27 minutes. The Mavs face the Milwaukee Bucks tonight.
The revival of a good basketball videogames returns today with the release of NBA 2k9. The 2k Sports franchise put together these batch of K.Garnett videos to promote the game. KG pausing the game in mid-flight dunk to jam to the Cool Kids is comedy.
Luke Walton (LA Lakers forward) apparently has a female stalker that's on his trail. Maybe it's an old deadhead groupie looking for his pops. In all seriousness, the details of the story are very creepy.
"It was more an annoyance than anything else until recently when she did that gun thing (gesturing at him with her hand as if shooting at him). And then I was like, 'All right. Now she's crossed the line.' "
Joey Dorsey was a beast on the Univ. of Memphis team (that should have won the title game). He always had the frame and game of an NBA power forward. Maybe he could be a useful physical body off the bench to pair with Ming. [Via Sportings News]
The NBA season is nearly upon hoops fans with training camps already in full gear. The system will be in full effect with the latest BS hoops goods from around the webs - and we'll see if we can find Skin to get a pinch of his Mavs mentals.
* Jason Terry (Mavs): The Jet gives an interview with DIME Magazine and fellow Seattle born Jamal Crawford from the Chicago Bulls.
- nuggets include: a Jet Reebok video promo that debuts a new line of Talkin Krazy sneakers that you can write on.. and erase.. and re-write on again.
Dime: I hear you're going to be wearing the Reebok Talkin Krazy this season. What are you going to write on it?
JT: My nickname is JET, so I'm gonna write, "Clear The Runway."
Mavs point guard Jason Kidd had an interview where he discusses his current contract status, the NJ Nets and the Beijing Olympics.
[Via True Hoop]
Some might say it's not so good, that a lot of the traditional powers -- Phoenix, Denver and your guys -- are ready for a slide.
"That's the beauty of the NBA. You're going to hear that, especially when you have a team that didn't play up to expectations, after a trade everyone thought would be a little better. Now we have a training camp and a new coach (Rick Carlisle), so we're together. Really, I'm excited about this year. We've got one of the best players in the world, we've got a very talented player in Josh Howard, who will be come out strong after a disappointing second half. Jason Terry, Brandon Bass. I like the team we have."
The Mavs have seeped into the news with Josh Howard taking a big public relations hit
over the recent national
anthem snafu - but not all of the Mavs are making negative headlines off of the court.
It appears that Jason Terry has been spending his summer doing
charitable work in the community.
Not only is there a small exodus of NBA players to foreign soil, but it
appears that sponsorship deals are also expanding to overseas markets. Various articles and pictures that surfaced today report that Dallas Maverick's guard Jason Kidd has left TEAM NIKE and penned an endorsement deal with a China based sports entity named PEAK.
This clip may be gold just based on the audio commentary by itself.
Example: "For two magical weeks in Beijing, the eyes of the world will be on Kobe Bryant - as he soars magnificently through the air - a vision in red, white & blue - twirling like a magical pixie on a journey to the stars"
Fresh from their confident 92-69 win over Greece in an important revenge game, the Americans have no time relax as they now face a tough Spain team on Saturday. While this is only Group play and a loss would not mean elimination for the US team, they are determined to remain focused in order to reach the medal round.
Team USA has played amazing defense through the first 3 games with the opposing team's point guard's being pressured into massive turnovers. The Greek team had 25 turnovers to match their 26 field goals. In addition to LeBron, local Dallas product Chris Bosh has been one of the outstanding US players with sound fundamental bball on both ends of the court.
On the one hand, I love Joe Johnson and enjoyed the Hawks last year and I want that team to stay together. But I also realize the departure of Josh Childress' crazy ears hurts and there are so many bad vibes coming out of Atlanta.
And then there's the idea of the Grizz getting up and down the floor under Crazy Ivaroni, who once yelled at me on press row because the audio person at the AAC played a drop during one of then Sun Steph Marbury's brick free throws. That's not a bit - really happened.
But I'm still a believer in Mike Conley and I think OJ Mayo will score. Throw in a forward pairing of Rudy Gay and Smith, and that means you'd have a young team that'll make a ton of mistakes, but be a blast to watch along the way.
The homie Stein filed this report and then sent Benny and I a complete non sequitur e-mail referencing a line from one of the old Ben and Skin Mavs Post-Game Show intros.
When I asked if it had anything to do with the schedule, he told me I should be ashamed.
I was.
The homie Mario points out that opening night gives us "the two most important surgically-repaired knees in the NBA next season, Portland vs Lakers on TNT"
As I see it, there are 2 ways to look at this Chris Sheridan report on reduced playing time for Jason Kidd in tune-up play for the olympics.
Half-full guy will say we don't want Kidd burning up minutes on his 35 year-old legs anyway and that Coach K has plenty of guys who need minutes.
Half-empty guy will say it's a clear indication of the end of Kidd's effectiveness and if Russia can exploit him when he's ballin' with Kobe, LeBron and D Howard, what are NBA teams going to do to him when he's ballin' with JoHo and I dunno, Gerald Green?
I haven't seen a second of any of these games, so I'll be uninformed-shrug-my-shoulders guy who walks around with a bad feeling in his stomach.
When Artest is your third best player behind a dominant low-post scorer (Yao) and a borderline unguardable individual scorer (T-Mac), then I'd say you're front-runnin'.
The doubters will say they'll play a combined 38 games together next year due to injuries and various forms of crazy, but on paper this team is absurd.
Do you start Artest alongside Battier and T-Mac and play small at the four with Artest, making other fours either chase Battier to the corners on rotations or cover Ron-Ron away from the hoop with a live dribble? Delicious...
Or do you start Scola and have him and Artest beat the crap out of people - Battier off the bench as the perfect 6th man? Or trade Battier for a scoring/shooting wing? What great options to have, huh?
According to earlier reports, The Mavs offered Stack (expiring contract) and Bass for Artest. If this was true, that's like offering Bass for Artest since Artest's contract was already expiring.
Same deal here as Bobby Jackson is expiring, so the Rockets just traded two late first round picks (this year's Donte Greene, who I happen to really like) and their '09 pick (surely that'll be a late-rounder) for Artest.
All hindsight clichés aside, wouldn't it be cool to have had at least one of those Kidd first rounders back for situations like this?
After talking to a guy who has amazing insight/access on such things, we're sad to report that it's highly unlikely that the Hawks will be operating under the cap - thus making Josh Smith a probable BYC signing.
Our premise was accurate, our source just doesn' think the Hawks would renounce the rights to Childress to make it happen. His cap hold leaves the on Hawks October 1st and returns July 1, 2009 if they don't renounce.
DallasBasketball's cap genius David Lord has other off-season ideas. He says go get Mo Evans.
The dreaded BYC status only applies to players when they are signed by team's that are over the cap.
Depending on how quickly Josh Childress' cap hold is removed from their cap number and how accurate these numbers are, The Hawks will be under the cap and Smith won't receive BYC status in a S&T.
I'm bad at math and reading documents - so please allow me some margin for error. But that's how I read it.
That'd open up some pretty interesting scenarios if I'm reading this right.
CJ Miles (Skyline) signed a deal with the OKC Bad Weathers last Friday (peep the connections in this link) and the Jazz have until Friday to match. Everyone's assuming they won't.
While I liked the idea of Utah one day having a ridiculous, all-DFW backcourt, at least we'll get to see the Durant/Miles combo that dreamers wish could have been at UT.
After having a rough first half in his debut versus the Mavs, Twolves rookie Kevin Love has put in some impressive work during summer league play. His coaches feel that his bball IQ is NBA ready and his floor game (even if it's summer league) has improved with each outing. K-Love will have to continue this type of play during the regular season to prove the naysayers wrong.
The Mavs defeated the Sacramento Kings 93-71 in last night's summer league game. Gerald Green had his best outing so far with 18 pts and 7 rebs. Check out a game interview with Green here, where he discusses his development as an NBA player.
In other Mavs/Kings love-making news, there was possibly a trade offered of Brandon Bass and Stackhouse for Ron Artest. The buzz is that the Kings will entertain deals that include Josh Howard. Would you make a play for Ron Arteezy?
Wait until you see the lists for Philly and NY. What a joke.
Maybe they're not considering the suburbs as part of the city - though they don't say that. And with all due repsect to our brothers to the south - a definite hoops hotbed in Houston - they ain't touchin' what the metroplex has churned out in the last decade.
Want names from the last ten years? C Bosh, Deron Williams, Anthony Randolph, Kenyon Martin, CJ Miles, Quinton Ross, Darrell Arthur, Sean Williams, hell - throw a Sasser brother in there for all I care. That's with no research - I'm probably forgetting a badass.
(12:41 AM edit - I forgot two badasses, I was so mad lotto picks Acie Law and LaMarcus Aldridge slipped my mind)
By comparison, NY is starting Smush Parker, Sebastian Telfair and Julius frickin' Hodge? I'm not joking. And the other two dudes (Ben Gordon and Chuck Villanueva) ain't on the Olympic team like Bosh and Williams.
What a load of crap! You suck ESPN. I'm surprised Bristol didn't make the Top 8.
Why do I let garbage like this get under my skin? Infuriating. Straight disrecpect.
"F" 'em. F' The whole east coast. F' everyone. I'm fittin' to torch the internet!
Skinathon and the Ticket crew will dig deep into Mavs news and summer scoop today on the Ticket. Here's a look at last night's game vs Minnesota, which was also top 5 overall drafted Kevin Love's rookie debut. I liked Big Love during his run at UCLA, but it remains to be seen how he will rank versus NBA level defenders. He has a decent outside jumper but will his slow speed give him problems getting good looks at the next level?
The Dallas Mavericks ruined Kevin Love's NBA debut as they crushed the Minnesota Timberwolves 88-74 in the final game of the NBA Summer League at COX Pavilion on Monday night. JaJuan Smith led all scorers with 19 points off the bench for the Mavericks.
Germany defeated Cape Verde 104-68 to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2008 Olympics qualifying tournament. Dirk had a game-high 16 points, while Chris Kaman had 10pts and 10 boards in his debut for the German National team. The late addition of Kaman to their frontline gives them an edge with two NBA starters and a good shot at grabbing one of the three remaining slots to qualify for Beijing.
James Singleton struck me as the only dude who may be able to give them anything this year. I didn't even realize he'd led them in scoring and rebounding until I saw the box, but that's not the reason why.
He looks like a useful rotation player at the back half of that rotation. A little like Junkyard Dog Jerome Williams, but somewhat of a spot shooter.
I'm not getting carried away here. Don't read anything into this as I'm not overhyping him. Just a useful guy for the roster - that's all. He also had 5 turnovers and 347 fouls - aiight?
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