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D-Wade On The Knicks? Pigs Will Fly First!
Before the Miami Heat defeated New York Vinnie’s BOYS the New York Knicks at MSG on Christmas Day 93-87 the New York media got a chance to ask Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade a few questions. Dependent on the NBA Salary Cap next summer the Kni...
Iverson Back Where He Belongs! Sixers Sign Iverson For Rest Of Season!
Now this Frickin deal makes sense! Destiny has been fulfilled and all is right with the Planet again (unless you are Stephen A Smith) as the Philadelphia 76ers and Free Agent Allen Iverson that they were the “Answer” to each other’...
Reports Out Of Philadelphia State Sixers Offer Iverson One Year Deal!
The “Associated Press” is reporting that the Philadelphia 76ers have offered veteran Free Agent guard Allen Iverson a contract for the rest of the NBA season. The report quotes an unidentified source whom is said to have knowledge of th...
Iverson And Sixers Hold Summit In Dallas!
You know how some things just seem right from the start and other things you know do not have a prayer of working out? Like your best bud introduces you to his new girlfriend and you just know that this woman is nothing but trouble. You can...
If D-Wade Joins Superman In Orlando They Could Be Magic For The Next Decade!
In the the mind of Your Old Pal New York Vinnie there are currently five players in the NBA that are head and shoulders above every other player that is now playing in the league. Those five players are in no particular order; LeBron James-Clevel...
Knicks Say Iverson Not A Good Fit! Could He Be “The Answer” For Cleveland?
Allen Iverson seems to be running out of options as the New York Knicks have now broken off talks with him according to “ESPN.com.” New York Team President Donnie Walsh told reporters that the club reached the decision late Thursday ni...
Iverson Would Be The Perfect Poster Boy For MY BOYS The Knicks!
New York Vinnie has slowly come to the realization that “MY BOYS” are about to make another wonderful signing. This has not been confirmed anywhere but in New York Vinnie’s Frickin Gut; however you can take this to the bank somet...
Hawks Would Be Foolish To Let Johnson Leave The Nest!
There are a lot of names being bandied about by the “So-Called NBA Experts” who will make huge splashes in the NBA Free Agent Pool in the Summer of 2010. There will be many teams extremely disappointed when LeBron James re-signs with the...
Divorce Memphis Style! Iverson And Grizzlies To End Doomed Relationship
On a day when one controversial basketball marriage took place (Stephen Jackson being traded from the Golden State Warriors to the Charlotte Bobcats) another one that was doomed from the start finally came to a merciful end. The “Associated P...
There Is Always Room For One More Pud In Memphis! Grizzlies Sign Jamaal Tinsley!
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” EMMA LAZARUS Inscribed On plaq...
Another PUD Joins The Bus? Grizzlies Reportedly Close To Signing Tinsley?
Memphis Grizzlies General Manager seems to want to build his own version of the Frickin ”Manson Family” as the roster of his team. He has already brought Zach Randolph and Allen version into the mix; although Iverson is on a team sancti...
Do Not Buy Into The Media Crappola; LeBron Is Staying in Cleveland!
Paul Simon sang these words a long Frickin time ago and they are still Frickin just as true today as when he wrote them; “Still a man hears what he wants to hear. And disregards the rest.” No greater proof of that is going on with all th...
Plenty Of Blame To Go Around In The Iverson/Grizzlies Mess-Up!
We have reached the finger pointing portion of the competition in Memphis where the game that is sweeping the city is “Who is more at fault in the situation between the Memphis Grizzlies and veteran Allen Iverson?” Is the team at fault ...
Unhappy in Memphis! Iverson Already Complaining About His Role With Grizzlies!
Billions of times every day a statement comes out of the mouths of tens of millions of Americans that is an outright Frickin lie; “I Hate To Say I Told You So.” Unless tragic Frickin consequences are involved we “LOVE To Say I Told You So!” ...
Celtics Step Up Big Time; Sign Rondo To 5 Year $55 Million Deal!
How badly do the Boston Celtics want to win another NBA Title next June? Badly enough that they spent a whole lot of money to get rid of the team’s final distraction. “The Boston Globe” is reporting that the Celtics have reached an...
To Sign Or Not Sign? For Celtics And Rondo That Is The Question!
The Boston Celtics and their starting point guard Rajon Rondo have some heavy thinking to do before the Monday deadline to give him a contract extension. The Celtics want Rondo to remain on the team and Rajon wants to stay in Boston. However that is...
The Cavaliers Need To Show Patience Not Panic With Their Roster!
The “News-Herald” is reporting that although the Cleveland Cavaliers may have an interest in Free Agent guard Antonio Daniels he will not be with the team anytime soon. Cleveland head coach Mike Brown acknowledged that the Team’s...
Artest Is Saying All The Right Things; But How Long Can it Last?
Can a leopard change their spots? Can an old dog learn new tricks? Or is what an old friend of New York Vinnie’s correct with his philosophy of “Once A Douche Always A Douche“? As The NBA preseason starts to wrap up and the regular...
Blazers Put Another Key Piece In Place! Reports State Aldridge Will Sign 5 Year Extension!
The “Associated Press” has reported that the Portland Trail Blazers have scheduled a news conference for Friday and will announce they have signed forward LaMarcus Aldridge to a five year contract extension. Portland Team President Larry...
Rondo Says Contract Negotiations Will Not Keep His Eye Off The Prize; An NBA Title!
There are lots of qualities that makes someone a winner in life, business and in sports. You have to have ability, drive, focus, ambition but there may be one quality that is even more important. That would be in New York Vinnie’s opinion bein...
Blazers Miller Handles Unhappiness The Right Way; With Class!
There are two different ways of handling any situation when comes right down to it. Quite simply there is the right way of dealing with it and the wrong of way. Here is an example; if you are an NBA player unhappy with your current situation you c...
Some PUDS Just Never Learn! Starbury Wants Things His Way!
It is time once again for one of our most popular features here at Le Basketbawl “New York Vinnie’s Words Of Wisdom.” This is when New York Vinnie gives you the benefit of the lessons I have learned as Life has knocked the spit out...
Iverson A Distraction For Grizzlie? Why Are You Surpised?
Take one NBA team that has been in the Lottery for years and is now a mixture of youngsters with potential, players with limited skills and a perennial problem child (Zach Randolph.) Mix in one All-Star Free agent whom after a season filled with u...
Knicks Will Finally Sign Lee And Robinson To One Year Deals!
After a long and frustrating summer when fans of the New York Knicks read about players signing with Greek teams and other players involved in a sign and trade deal it appears everything is working out in the end. The “New York Post” repo...
Yes? No? Maybe So? Knicks Deal With Nate Robinson In Limbo!
New York Vinnie has been getting some e-mails from my fellow New York Knicks fans saying that I am being too hard on Team President Donnie Walsh and much too Frickin pessimistic about My Boys chances in the upcoming season. New York Vinnie even r...
Another Pud Looking To Come Back For The Money! Antoine Walker In Talks With Four NBA Teams!
Over the last couple of weeks we have heard rumblings of former NBA players who had been retired for a while were planning on making attempts to return to playing in the league. When former players like Greg Ostertag and J.R. Rider talked about comin...
Grizzlies GM Wallace Says Team Did Not Add Iverson To Sell Tickets!
One of the main things wrong with this Great Nation of ours is there are too many people in positions of power who are either stupid or they are liars. Memphis Grizzlies General Manager Chris Wallace is certainly one of the other and quite possibly ...
Pritchard Produces Prize Pickup! Blazers Sign Veteran Juwan Howard!
New York Vinnie truly believes that the proper chemistry in a pro locker room is one of the most underrated advantages in all of Pro-Sports. Just think about your own job for a minute; if you have a bunch of people around you who share your work ethi...
Could Ainge Be Stupid Enough To Let Rondo Walk Away?
Back in the 1980’s during the era that the Boston Celtics had the original “Big Three” of Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale New York Vinnie was in his teens. If you are a regular reader of this page you are well aware that ...
Pavlovic Joins Island Of “Misfit Toys”! Signs Deal With T-Wolves!
Can You still remember watching the old “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” TV Special when you were a little tyke? Perhaps you have kids of your own and you watch it each Christmas with them. Now New York Vinnie and His Doll do not have chi...
