Steve Nash came under scrutiny in the off-season when he re-signed with the floundering Phoenix Suns. The two-time NBA MVP figured that he owed the Suns that much. He was with them when they were up, why wouldn’t he stick with them when they were down?
“I was a free agent and it was natural to explore my options,” Nash said, according to ESPN.com. “Some people said I was a little crazy going back to Phoenix because I wouldn’t have as good a chance to win. I liked the team and coaches and I was comfortable.”
From the outset, it looks like …read more

In the beginning of the NBA season, and before college basketball gets underway, I like digging around for the juicer kind of basketball stories. And this one is the juiciest of them all.
According to SI.com, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan purposely lobbied to keep Isiah Thomas off of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team for personal reasons.

The admission was made by Magic himself, in a book that he co-wrote with Larry Bird.
When The Game Was Ours features a section in which Magic accuses Isiah of spreading a rumor that he was gay. As a result, Magic played a key role in …read more

Is it just us, or are the New York Knicks regressing to behavior that would even make The Seventh Grade Class Busybody shake her head and go, “Tsk, tsk boys. That is like so* immature.”
*Note: Substitute ”wicked” here if you’re envisioning a Boston-based gossiper. 
Yesterday, Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury wasn’t having fun anymore. So, he did what all kids do: He picked up his toys and went home. From Phoenix. To New York. On game day.
The reason for mounting his Huffy Bike? Coach Isiah Thomas told him he wouldn’t be playing the game against the Phoenix Suns.
Marbury said, “Yuh-huh!”
To which Thomas shot back, “Nuh-uh!”
OK, …read more