Basketball practices are pretty standard: shooting drills, defensive slides, three-man weave, suicides, 17s, rebounding, running plays, etc. Not for the French though, those weirdos are using an amusement park ride/giant robot to twirl them in the air to catch passes. More »
If you’ve watched any basketball games this past season, you might have noticed some really great commercials that showed current NBA stars in their earlier life (in high school, college, etc) interacting with people from “the future” (or 2011). It’s amazing when you see 2005 version of Kevin Durant “react” to the fact that he’ll be playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder (a non-existant team at that point). Or 2011 people telling the young players how great they’ll grow up to be. More »
How much do you love basketball? Enough to pay your cable bill? Probably Enough to pay $US16 million dollars? Probably not! So you can imagine the surprise of Ohioan Daniel DeVirgilio when he learned TWC tried to do just that. More »
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Always a web-friendly sporting event, this year CBS and Turner will be streaming all March Madness games to iOS devices for free. A perfect way to convince yourself that your iPad 2 post was totally worth it. [Media Memo]
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You know NBA Jam. It’s the classic in-your-face arcade basketball game. Now available on the iPhone, it’s just as boomshakalakastic as I remembered. Backboard breaking dunks, fire burning threes, punk-your-man defence – ah, just the way basketball games should be. More »
