Basketball and Hip-Hop Lifestyle
Here is a video of Yao Ming working out with Houston Rockets recently. Yao is back! This is Yao’s workout at Toyota Center against Chuck Hayes and James Cripe (NBA D-Leaguer). It looked pretty intense, which we all like to see. Yesterday, Dr. Tom Clanton — who operated on Yao’s foot last year — revealed [...]
Carmelo Anthony, the Denver Nuggets Forward, is open to long-term deals with the Houston Rockets and Nets if either team can work out a trade with the Nuggets. I say Melo should go to Houston and play with Aaron Brooks, Yao Ming, Luis Scola, Kyle Lowry, Brad Miller, Shane Battier and Kevin Martin. Anthony’s contract [...]
It was the game which an entire superpower had been waiting for. An audience of more than 200 million, plus countless more overseas. The two great totems of the nation’s sport going, as they say, mano a mano, as families gathered around their TV sets and parties raged to witness the spectacle. Super Bowl? Small [...]
BEIJING – The NBA is America’s leading sports export to China, and it’s about to begin an unprecedented expansion in the world’s fastest growing major economy. The lure of a country with 1.3 billion people, where 300 million play basketball – that’s the entire population of the United States – is too lucrative to resist. [...]
Basketball is a sport unto itself,” says John “Sonny” Vaccaro, the legendary marketer-promoter Reebok CEO Paul Fireman wanted on his side to push his company over the top in making it the leading player in basketball marketing. “Basketball never leaves you. Football leaves you. Baseball leaves you. You can be a fan, but you can’t [...]
NBA 2K8 for Xbox 360 will be released on October 2. The gameplay, graphics, signature moves and just about every detail you can image are superbly done. You can catch me playing 2k7 and soon to be 2k8 on Xbox Live before work, during work, in the evenings or even late at night. Now granted, [...]
“3D” – Boris Diaw (After his jersey number, and his 3-Dimensional play), Dennis Scott (For his 3 point shooting ability) “A-Train” – Vin Baker and Artis Gilmore “The Admiral” – David Robinson (he played at Annapolis, and served in the United States Navy for two years after graduation before being allowed to play in the [...]
