• NBA Martin Luther King Day: League Giving Fans 11 Hours of Basketball on Monday

    The NBA has decided to celebrate Martin Luther King Day in a big way this year: The league's slate of 12 games will stretch approximately 11 hours and includes four nationally televised contests.Along with the competition, the league also dropped a new "MLK" television spot today, featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech noting several photos of prominent African-American basketball accomplishments.According to BMI Elite, the spot will run for five weeks.

  • Ex-NBA Star Stephon Marbury Says He 'Wanted to Die' in 2009

    Stephon Marbury was only a two-time NBA All-Star, but the mercurial point guard — who now plays professionally in China at 37 — made enough headlines on and off the court during his lengthy American career to warrant “household name” status.The New York City native repeated a crash-and-burn narrative arc for a handful of teams throughout his career, but it was not until his time with the New York Knicks from 2003-08 that things went from bad to awful."I wanted to die," Marbury said in an interview on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" that will air Tuesday night, Jan. 20, via ESPN. "I wanted to kill myself some days. I did. ... It wasn't about basketball. It started to become about me. Because I was that depressed and I was that sick.”

  • Miami Heat Owner Takes Serious Twitter Jab at Cleveland, LeBron James

    What is it about LeBron James that makes NBA owners so salty? Cleveland Cavaliers boss Dan Gilbert lost his mind when James left for Miami in 2010, and now Miami Heat owner Micky Arison is throwing some serious shade because 'Bron decided to go back to Cleveland last summer.In case you do not remember Gilbert's epic tirade, it included a lengthy note to Cleveland fans decrying James's nationally televised decision to take his talents to South Beach.

  • NBA Star with $44 Million Contract Reportedly Doesn't Want to Play Basketball Anymore

    The world of professional sports often revolves around the following phrase: "It's a business." The constant travel, practice grind and lack of longterm security can suck the fun out of anyone's career, so it is no wonder there are excellent pro athletes who no longer play "for the love of the game."The current pro sports climate is such that when Milwaukee Bucks star Larry Sanders — who is slated to make $44 million over the next four years — reportedly told his team that he is tired of playing basketball, those who criticized him were not appalled at his lack of drive but rather the bad business decision he would be making by backing out of his contract.A player who quits in the middle of a contract is rare, but not because he or she loves the game. It is because they are leaving loads of money on the table and forging ahead with a bankroll that statistically has a good chance of drying up within the decade.Gery Woefel of the "Racine Journal Times" broke the Sanders story Monday, Jan. 5:Sources tell me that Bucks center Larry Sanders recently told some Bucks officials that he doesn't want to play basketball anymore. — Gery Woelfel (@GeryWoelfel) January 5, 2015

  • Kobe Bryant Passes Michael Jordan on NBA Scoring List; Twitter Blows Up

    Kobe Bryant became the NBA's third all-time scorer on Sunday night in Minneapolis. With his Los Angeles Lakers in town to face the Minnesota Timberwolves, Bryant simply needed nine points to pass Michael Jordan on the list after coming up short two nights ago. When he got them, Twitter blew up!
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