PHOENIX — Throughout his NBA career, Shannon Brown has been known as one thing: a world-class athlete and dunker.
From the early part of his career when he bounced around between four teams in three years to the past two and a half seasons when he established himself on a Lakers team that won championships it [...]

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This past year NBA front offices were stuck in limbo in that they could only evaluate each potential decision based on the current system, not the system those decisions would end up impacting.
With the lockout all but over, those poor general managers now have a road map by which to base future decisions.
Now it’s time [...]

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Hakim Warrick is nothing if not prideful about the city he grew up in, Philadelphia, so you can imagine how excited he must be after Team Philly took down Team Melo 131-122 in a charity exhibition dubbed “The Battle for I-95″ in the Palestra Sunday night.
The game was the creation of Warrick, with the idea [...]

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Some years it seems like a coach or manager has the Midas Touch, whereby every player they put in the game produces at a high level.
Other times a coach establishes roles to the extent you know exactly what point in the game is occurring based on the players on the floor.
And still other times it [...]

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Perhaps it’s not saying much in a league in which Al Harrington can go for 46 and 12, but Jared Dudley put up some nice all-around numbers during the first week of the Impact Competitive Training Series.
Dudley filled up the stat sheet with games of 24 points, nine rebounds and eight assists on Tuesday, 17-7-4 [...]

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