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Today we continue featuring the talented people we deal with every day. For all of this month we are going to do our best to find some interesting tidbits about a long list of bloggers and at the same time open new reader’s eyes to their talents. For day two of 10 questions we focus on the guy who is bringing Love back to the Pacific Northwest one game at a time. 1. Name/handle/blogs: Kellen/Kellex/ Blaze of Love and the Sports Dollar 2. Favourite sports team: The Portland Trail...Read Full Story

Now we are a blog that follows the Toronto Raptors but it is still okay to promote other sites for other teams. All of the NBA blogs help each other out and help the overall growth of the community. Today we want to direct your attention to a growing force in the Northwest United States. There is a new Portland Trail Blazers blog in town and in a few weeks it already looks like a seasoned vet. The site is called Blaze of Love and is run by a hardcore Blazers fan named Kellex . Many of...Read Full Story

Here’s an interesting question: If Isiah Thomas, the poster boy for bad decisions, says you did something wrong, does that mean you actually did something right? While attending James Blake’s match at the U.S. Open last night, Florida International head coach, Isiah Thomas said that LeBron James would have been better off joining the New York Knicks than the Miami Heat. According to Thomas, the curiosity factor of seeing James in a Knick uniform and the challenges associated with winning in...Read Full Story

Don't Miss Cuzoogle’s 10 questions - Kellex is bringing the Love back NY stars to swoon LeBron, Reggie Bush sad, the effects of Texas TV, and Izzo is a "lifer" A new hoops blog ready to blaze trails Lebron James and Ralph Lauren co-hosted a cocktail party at the Ralph Lauren store in NYC to benefit The Lebron James Family Foundation and let's just say that a bunch of celebs appeared including Jay-Z, Carmelo Anthony, Jason Kidd, Vanessa & Angela Simmons, Tyson Beckford, Chris Paul, Cassie...Read Full Story

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 abo ut 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. It...Read Full Story

Thought #1 With plenty of teams trying to swoon LeBron James it seems the New York Knicks might have just hit a new low in desperation. It seems the Knicks have asked an entourage of stars to prepare a little intervention for Lebron. The committee includes Donald Trump, Alec Badwin, Tracy Morgon, Chris Rock, and maybe even Whoopi Goldberg if James gets lucky, I mean she did get that middle slot on Hollywood Squares. Seriously though, how bad are the Knicks that the best sales pitch they can...Read Full Story

Thought #1 - The starting line ups for the NBA All Star game are in and while T-Mac got edged out, answering the prayers of most fans who actually watch NBA games, Allen Iverson will be starting. Now I have been critical of both of these stars, but AI is defiantly the lesser of two evils here, being that he actually has seen game time this season. Can we stop giving props to his dedicated fan base though? I mean seriously, it's all about clicking refresh with your mouse. It's not like folks...Read Full Story

If nothing is done and the cap drops to 53 we are looking at this for 2010: Lee - about 9 Curry - 11.3 Jeffries - 6.9 Chandler - 2.1 Gallinari - 3.3 Hill - 2.7 Douglas - 1.1 ------------- Total - 36.4 The Knicks could only afford one max contract, so you would have to say bye to LeBron, Wade, and Bosh since those players would be intrigued to come play with another superstar. We would have room for one decent signing, plus next year's MLE along with this year's if we keep it. So now you are...Read Full Story

LeBron James will be in a different jersey next year and not for the reason you think.  James would like to retire Michael Jordan's number 23 jersey league wide and he will be starting the movement.   Thursday night, James scored 34 points to help the Cavs beat the Heat 111-104 in Miami, which Jordan happened to be watching from a third row seat. Afterward, James told TNT he plans to switch his number from 23 to 6 after this season. If you are anything like me the first thing that jumped out...Read Full Story