You’ve got to love this quote from LeBron James about whether or not he and his teammates are distracted by all the LeBron-to-New York talk.
“It’s a distraction for the Knicks,” he said, according to the AP. “It’s not a distraction for us — we’re good.”
LeBron says he’s never mentioned the Knicks or Nets and that [...]

Charles Barkley and LeBron James are involved in a war of words.
On TNT’s “Inside the NBA” show Thursday, Barkley criticized King James for taking questions about his plans in 2010 earlier this week in New York. The Knicks and Nets are both clearing cap room in order to sign James that year.
“The outside forces should [...]

DETROIT (AP) — A basketball official says the Detroit Pistons have traded former NBA finals MVP Chauncey Billups and top reserve Antonio McDyess to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for former league MVP Allen Iverson.
The official spoke Monday to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the trade had not been announced.
Detroit was [...]

Everyone knows that Coney Island, N.Y. has produced Stephon Marbury, Sebastian Telfair and, now Lance “Born Ready” Stephenson, but the neighborhood is also home to former Rutgers and current Sacramento Kings guard Quincy Douby. Check out this great documentary film on Douby. Part 2 is below.

I spent the day at the Sports Museum of America in lower Manhattan working on a few stories. Giants DE Justin Tuck was there for an event promoting literacy and my SNY story on him touches on everything from DeSean Jackson’s blown TD last night to Leon Lett to Charlie Weis’ unfortunate weekend sideline accident.
After [...]

Brevin Knight, a former standout at Seton Hall Prep and Stanford, was traded Wednesday from the L.A. Clippers to the Utah Jazz. In return, the Clippers got fellow point guard Jason Hart.
Knight, 32, averaged 4.6 points, 1.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists and 22.6 minutes in 74 games last season. He finished second in the NBA with [...]

The history-making deal that sent American high school basketball phenom Brandon Jennings to a professional club in Italy was brokered early Tuesday morning in a hotel room at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas.
After Jennings, 18, his family and his advisors had dinner with grassroots sneaker czar Sonny Vaccaro Monday night, Jennings returned to his hotel [...]

PATERSON, N.J. — When 16-year-old David Anderson learned he was going to be coached by an NBA player this summer, he couldn’t help but get excited.
When he found out it was Rockets guard Rafer Alston, a fellow Queens, N.Y. native, Anderson was thrilled.
“When they told me it was Rafer, I was like, ‘I’m cool with [...]

Ten top young NBA players were named today by USA Basketball to the 2008 USA Basketball Men’s Select Team that has been chosen to help prepare the 2008 USA Senior National Team for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, scheduled to take place Aug. 10-24 in Beijing, China.
 
The ten players named to the USA Basketball Select [...]

A few folks have asked me what became of Darryl “Mookie” Watkins. Turns out the former Paterson Catholic and Syracuse University big man is on the summer league roster of the Los Angeles Clippers. Watkins is averaging 4 points and 3 rebounds in three games with the Clips, who drafted Indiana freshman guard Eric Gordon [...]