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  Dwyane Wade will periodically take a behind the scenes look at the U.S. men’s Olympic team from his point-of-view.  Here is his first entry. Monday, June 30: Welcome to inside the mind of a 2008 Olympian, Dwyane Wade. I’m speaking of myself in third person, but I want to give you guys the inside track about what’s coming up for the team and how we spent our first weekend together in Vegas. Now as a U.S. Olympian, you have a lot of obligations to be on time - and I was late for the first... Read Full Story

Posted 4/16/08 - Kellex Still looking to build linkbacks or traffic? Ever thought about a weekly link post?We run DollarBall a couple of times a month just to let those other blogs out there know that we exist and we appreciate their work. We also run a link post called LINKBAWL over at our basketball blog that is dedicated to the hot basketball stories of the day or week. These are two examples you could use to start up your post. Most bloggers just LOVE to get linked up by other blogs... Read Full Story

NBA All Star Weekend in New Orleans is just around the corner and today we saw who will be taking the floor this year and there are a couple of surprises and a couple of players that got dissed; at least for now. Of the surprises you got Allen Iverson who is second in the NBA in scoring just behind LeBron James, but the biggest surprise about Iverson making the squad or starting lineup was the fact that he past up the Houston Rocket's Tracy McGrady who was leading the way to take that spot... Read Full Story

LeBron James was making the interview rounds today in New Orleans for the NBA All-Star game and left everyone with a guarantee for this summer: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - National Basketball Association superstar LeBron James made a golden guarantee Friday, declaring the United States would reclaim the Olympic crown in six months at the Beijing Olympics."We will be Olympic champions this year," the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar said Friday ahead of his starring role in Sunday's... Read Full Story

Article 1: Those Bulls, eliminated. This is easily the most pathetic story of the entire NBA season don’t you think? Here is Ben Gordon after the game: “They wanted it more and played a lot harder than we did,” guard Gordon said. “A lot of their guys are playing just to stay in the NBA, so they definitely had a higher level of intensity than we showed.” You let a team, down 2 All-Stars and 4 regular rotation guys, beat you to eliminate you from the playoffs? They had more “intensity... Read Full Story