2008 olympics Stories - SLC Dunk
It's not lame, it's the 10 days of Christmas - Beijing Olympics
On BasketballJohn.com last year I had the top ten stories of the year for the Jazz combined with the 12-days of Christmas. I only wanted to do ten, so there you go. It crept up on me fast this year and I'm almost out of time. So today starts the beginning of "It's not lame, it's the 10 days of...
Orlando Magic News for August 28th: Ranking Dwight Howard, "Outing" Oklahoma City, etc.
Erick Blasco of Bleacher Report lists the league's 30 best centers. Our very own Dwight Howard ranks second, behind Yao Ming, in large part due to his lack of offensive moves. Blasco also calls Howard out for poor court awareness on defense. (Hat tip: Canis Hoopus) As you might imagine, Dwight's...
Deron and Locke give us a Chinese history lesson.
via thefansports.com Locke interviews (mp3) a hammered Deron Williams. They go over topics such as the length of the Great Wall, Deron's golfing, and hanging out with LeBron (Coming Summer of 2010 to the Utah Jazz!) and more. These interviews always seem like Deron is...
The United States Wins Gold
Team U.S.A. celebrates defeating Spain for its first Olympic gold medal since 2000. Photo by Chang W. Lee, the New York Times Congratulations to Dwight Howard and everyone involved in U.S.A. Basketball for their gold-medal-winning performance in this Olympics. Howard scored 8 points (3-of-3 from...
Sometimes it takes 7000 miles to get your swagger back
Since the disastrous 2004 games in Athens, the value of gold worldwide has more than doubled. But for members of the USA Men's Basketball team, the gold they earned Sunday was priceless. The 118-107 win will elicit calls of, "It was a lot closer than the score indicates." And it was. But...
Team USA Golden Again
Congratulations to Team USA Basketball for bringing home the gold medal after hanging on to beat Spain today, 118-107. So much for cruising to the gold medal, though. Don't let the double-digit final deficit fool you, this game was tight for much of the second half. Huge head nods to Spain for...
Team USA
Longtime readers of my blog are no doubt confused by the fact that I've remained (relatively) quiet on the subject of Team USA and the Olympic basketball tournament so far. There are a few reasons: I was in Costa Rica for the start of the games, Citizen Mikey P has been doing a solid (if maybe a...
Liveblog: Spain vs. Croatia
In the first game of the "win or go home" quarterfinal round, second place Group B finishers Spain squared off with Croatia, their third place rivals from group A. These two clubs have some history with one another. At the 2005 Eurobasket, Spain knocked off Croatia in a controversial overtime...
Orlando Magic News for August 20th: Kyler: Team Probably Finished Making Moves
Monday morning, Steve Kyler of HoopsWorld reported the Magic are basically finished making moves this summer. A rumored Tony-Battie-for-Nick-Collison swap isn't happening, his sources assured him. Damn. Collison's the tough, rebound-centric forward the Magic need. I suppose they value Battie's...
Recap: Bogut shoots Australia into the medal round
After a rocky start with two disappointing losses, Andrew Bogut has put Australia's Boomers on his back. Following his 22-point, 8-rebound effort in Australia's 95-80 throttling of Russia, Bogut was once again the main man as Australia annihilated the previously undefeated Lithuanians 106-75 last...
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