Browsing: National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association has been maybe the most criticized league in sports over the past decade. From officiating, referee scandals, biased treatment to even the financial aspects, the league is somewhat of a joke.

For a while now, players have brought a new technique to the game: flopping. Flopping is defined as an intentional fall by a player after little or no physical contact by an opposing player in order to draw a personal foul call by an official against the opponent.

Making the case that a large majority of today’s television is awful only requires examining two specific networks and how much they have each devolved.

Freshman forward Quincy Miller has decided to enter the NBA Draft and forgo his final three years of eligibility. Miller originally decided to stay but announced Tuesday that he has changed his mind.

Tim Duncan had 28 points and 12 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs snapped out of a funk to top the surging Memphis Grizzlies 107-97 on Thursday night.

Freshman Quincy Miller has decided to return to Baylor. “I talked to my mother. My mother thought I needed to come back,” Miller said. “I definitely prayed about and I feel like this is the best decision for me.”

Perry Jones III gets enough criticism to make Tim Tebow feel bad for him. I can’t remember a sophomore getting this level of vilification, especially one that averages 14 points and eight rebounds per game.

No fourth-quarter collapse this time against Dallas. These days, everything seems to be going right at home for the Miami Heat.

For Dallas owner Mark Cuban, being back in Miami brought out little sentimental value.

You would think the sports gods had smiled enough on New York. The beloved Giants just won the Super Bowl – that would be enough to satisfy most fan bases.

Baylor students: the Lariat is giving away two tickets to the NBA celebrity all-star game on Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Ferrell Center. Invited players include Kevin Durant, Josh Howard, John Wall and the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Terry.

The Ferrell Center will play host to some of the NBA’s biggest names at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1.

Baylor University has announced the upcoming visit of a traveling all-star troupe of players from the National Basketball Association.

People across the country have had money and jobs snatched away from them within the last week, and there’s nothing they can do about it.

Kim Kardashian is famous for a lot of reasons that society would hate to admit, but on Aug. 20, the world had an American wedding that could challenge the Royal wedding in terms of importance to People Magazine.

Successful journalists do the little things right, panelists said at the sports writing panel as a part of the Legacy of Excellence in Journalism Education events last week.

The last time most of us heard the name Javaris Crittenton, it was as the other guy in a news story starring Gilbert Arenas. The story grew from a December 2009 incident in the locker room of the NBA’s Washington Wizards in which a supposed “joke” between the two escalated until they produced guns from their lockers. Arenas got most of the attention – and blame – which is fitting. He was the team’s star, considered one of the better players in the game.

Instead of rebuilding, the Bears are reloading for 2011-2012.

Like his fellow classmates, nobody is forcing freshman forward Perry Jones III to return to Baylor for another semester. But chances are good he’s the only student at the university turning down millions of dollars to do so.

I still maintain that the visit to the AT&T center this past Sunday was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.