Yesterday, I blogged about the firing of Larry Frank. The former head coach of the New Jersey Nets led the team to an 0-16 start before being let go on Sunday. And if things couldn’t get any worse, the Nets played the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night and lost yet another game, giving them an 0-17 record for the season.
I posed a simple question in my post. I asked, who would want to coach the Nets now? Well, according to SI.com, Patrick Ewing is interested. The former NBA All-Star has been an assistant coach for the past seven seasons. …read more

A guest blog from Kevin Hunter, of b5media’s “College Fast Break“:
As Kobe, LeBron, Wade and Company try too bring back the gold and make up for the 2004 debacle where we can home without it for only the third time in history, it reminds me of the last great U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball team that won the gold medal.
Prior to the Dream Team and when the Olympics was truly for amateur competition (at least in the U.S.), we sent our best college basketball players to take on the best in the world where we easily showed them who was boss.
The …read more

Yes. The 1992 Barcelona Olympics was an event that’s memorable for the sport, Basketball. It was when the following athletes competed:

Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns
Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics
Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers
Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks
Magic Johnson, retired, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers
Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls
Christian Laettner of Duke University
Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz
Chris Mullin of the Golden State Warriors
Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls
David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs
John Stockton of the Utah Jazz
Coached by Chuck Daly of the New Jersey Nets.
Final standing of the US Basketball …read more