A few months back, Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell debated the lost art of pressing in the NBA.
Both writers wondered why no pro team is willing to take a chance with the press these days in an era in which many college teams still run it.
Sure, you can say NBA athletes are too good for [...]

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After Usain Bolt set another world record in the 100-meter dash on Sunday, J.E. Skeets from Ball Don’t Lie posed the question: Who is the NBA’s version of Bolt?
Through 58,397 votes at the time of this posting, the people have spoken.
In an eight-man field that includes such speedsters as LeBron James, Tony Parker, Devin Harris and [...]

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The Phoenix Suns continued their predictable offseason on Monday by signing rookie forward Taylor Griffin.   The Suns inked their second-round selection in the 2009 NBA Draft (48th overall) to a partially guaranteed one-year deal for $457,588, according to The Arizona Republic.
The 23-year old, 6-foot-7 forward out of Oklahoma averaged 6.2 points, 3.0 rebounds and [...]

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And …. cut. Steve Nash’s HBO debut is finally in the books. The result? 30 seconds of pure genius. OK, maybe genius is a stretch, but he looked good and sounded good, and that’s all you can ask for in a cameo. Was he Brad Pitt?  No. But he sure was Steve Nash, and in [...]

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Unlike that analysis of how the Suns lucked out from a Dallas front office meltdown posted earlier this week, this will be brief.
FoxSports.com recently ranked the NBA’s top 10 shooters based on three-point shooting prowess as well as “soft touch around the basket and from the foul line, shooting on the move, shooting under defensive [...]

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The 2004-05 Phoenix Suns were more than just a basketball team. They were pioneers.
A team that won just 29 games the past season morphed into arguably the most exciting offense in NBA history in a matter of months.  The 2004-05 season brought to Phoenix the start of Steve Nash’s MVP campaign(s), the start of Amare’s [...]

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