Basketball Archive

Dwight Howard NJ Nets Gear available online?

I guess someone at the NBA store online is getting fired today:  

Lebron James has a nice purse

Is that hipster Lebron carrying a Purse? A Murse? Why does Lebron do this to himself? Does he have so little knowledge that the internet is watching him? He almost makes it too easy…   Amazon.com Widgets [Via]

First and Ten – 3/2/2012

First It’s been awhile since I posted.  Those of you who have ever done grad school knows it kicks you in the jimmies repeatedly.  I found a few minutes today after I was inspired by our fearless leader’s picture of A-rod getting linked to by Deadspin.  Maybe I can boost the traffic by a dozen

Michael Jordan’s House for Sale

  Michael Jordan has put his modest Illinois home for sale so anyone looking to buy a simple place with the number 23 on the entry gates should check it out.  For $29m you get your own indoor basketball court,  9 bedrooms, 15 full bathrooms and 4 half baths. Sure the price tag is steep

Jeremy Lin’s Boxers on Ebay for 10k

Well, just when you thought there was nothing else you could buy Jeremy Lin branded, the world finds a way to surprise even the most jaded non-believers. As posted on BustedCoverage, someone was trying to sell Jeremy Lin’s briefs on e-bay (the auction has since been removed). For those of you upset you missed this

Ben & Jerry’s Original “Lin-Sanity” Flavor Racist

I think that fortune cookies would be awesome in Ice Cream, but naming it after Jeremy Lin might be construed as racism. They have since removed the fortune cookies from the Linsanity flavor. Before After

Recession Buster: Jeremy Lin card for $20k

I am not sure what is more disturbing about this auction: The fact that his card is bid up to $20,000 after 8 games or that the reserve hasnt been met…  

Jeremy Lin: No, I’m not dating Kim Kardashian

The world is unable to to stop talking about Jeremy lin, so I will continue posting about him!  Below is the latest story about Lin as well as the interview from ABC/ESPN and the article from USA Today.   Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks did a sit-down interview with Rachel Nichols of ESPN that was shown

Jeremy Lin fighting to trademark Linsanity

The full story is below but the tl;dr is simple:  Jeremy Lin is going to have for the rights to his own name (and nickname). While “Linsanity” has been running wild - Yenchin Chang and Andrew W. Slayton each seperately filed to copyright the term Linsanity. The NY Knicks point guard is going after them by today

Jeremy Lin’s signature Nike shoes? Seriously?

And the record for the quickest design of basketball shoes is… Nike reportedly had plans to capitalize on Jeremy Lin’s popularity by creating a special shoe for him. According to Counter Kicks, the picture above is what the shoe looks like. The shoe is called the Nike Hyperfuse 2011 Linsanity PE. It has the Knicks’ blue and orange