Hilarious ad for Vitamin Water featuring the Phoenix Suns Steve Nash...

The 2009 NBA draft was the third draft under the league's "one and done" rule, which requires an American player to wait a year following his class's graduation from high school before entering the NBA draft. The 2006 draft, the year Andrea Bargnani was drafted first overall, was the leap year between high school players entering the draft and the first class of "one and done players." ...

Let me start this by congratulating Phil Jackson on his recent finals win and say that I wish him the best should he decide to retire or keep coaching beyond this year. However, there is article after article out there extolling Jackson's greatness and crowning him as the greatest NBA coach since, well since ever. That includes Red Auerbach. I have to call BS on that...

Is LeBron James the best player in the NBA? He's only 24 years old and promises his best years are still ahead. Steve Kroft hits the hardwood with "King James."...

Three years ago, the Houston Rockets teamed up superstars Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming, with nary a single series win to show for it so far. Apparently brass has decided that they need a third superstar to make the next step to join the elite teams, enter Ron Artest...

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Did game two of the finals seem familiar to anyone? Following a 38-10 discrepancy in free throws in Boston's favor in Game 2, disgraced former NBA ref larry Donaghy's legal team seized the moment to publicly outline new allegations of altered games, including a pair of specific examples: a 2005 playoff series between the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks, and the infamous Game 6 of the Western Conference finals in 2002...

Sunday's huge win against the Spurs put the Suns record at 4-6 with Shaq in the lineup. Getting the win was the good part. The bad part? The Suns with Shaq may now be better equipped to handle teams that play a more conventional half court game like the Spurs, than run and gun teams like the Warriors and Nuggets. This from the team that was THE run and gun team in the league before the trade.

The 2007 NBA draft class was the most hyped and highly covered of any draft class in the last five years and maybe even this decade - and 9 of the 10 first picks were still teenagers. Something very profound has occurred in the NBA in the past two years due in large part to the new rule that disallows any high school student from entering the NBA draft until they are 19 years old...

Columnist Greg Wyshynski examines the Dallas Mavericks' protest of a recent NBA game, and wonders if Commissioner David Stern's reaction to it has exposed one of the league's biggest shortcomings...