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Los Angeles Lakers super star Kobe Bryant has received a bumper contact offer to play in Italy next season. Italian side Virtus Bologna is willing to offer up to $6.7 million for a stint during the lockout.

Bryant, of course, spent a part of his childhood in Italy. His father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, who is now a head coach in WNBA, played [...]

Although the NBA is in the midst of a lockout, trade rumors have still persisted and rumors such as a swap of Dwight Howard for Andrew Bynum would certainly shake up the league and bring some excitement.

Since a shortened season is looking very likely, the NBA will likely hope for one of these rumors to become reality as it could [...]

While many players are heading overseas in order to soften the financial blow of the lockout, there are actually some of them like Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and many of the older players who would benefit from a shorter season.

Of course there are also younger teams like the Oklahoma City Thunder who may not benefit directly from the lockout [...]

NBA Lockout - Owners and Players to meet next week to discuss situationRecently, the National Basketball Players Association stated that it was ardently pursuing a solution the current lockout situation and painted a picture whereby David Stern and other NBA executives were made to look like arrogant and money hungry machines. Stern spoke out [...]

Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan debates in regards to pure talent and stats have been ensuing for over decade, yet not not too much headway has been made as to who is the better player.

Some say Jordan, while others say Kobe, and after all this time, evident by the fact that it is still a hot debate, we do not have [...]

Perhaps no current NBA player has taken in more criticism over the last few years than LeBron James, and for good reason. He’s set a high standard for his output, promising championships, aligning himself with two of the best players in the NBA along the way.

But he still has a long way to go, in terms of career-long kvetching, to catch Kobe Bryant…

As it turns out, we might be wrong. Ron Artest might be playing basketball in England.

Mirrored with Friday’s news that FIBA isn’t going to contest any clashing contract agreements between the NBA and its wandering players, it appears that Ron Artest may be nearing a deal with the Cheshire Jets of the British Basketball League. Why the Cheshire Jets aren’t named “the Cheshire Cats,” I don’t know. Why Artest is going…

Ian Mahinmi, the reserve centre of the Dallas Mavericks believes that Kobe Bryant is the most arrogant player in the NBA today. In a recent interview, Mahinmi called Kobe “super arrogant”.

Los Angeles Lakers super star Kobe Bryant has not had a good time since the regular season ended. Kobe and the Lakers [...]

The agent of super star Kobe Bryant, Rob Pelinka, is reportedly working the phones and trying to set up a tour of China for NBA players to play exhibition games during the official lockout. The move would be considered a serious affront to NBA as the players would tour in their individual capacities and not as representatives of the teams or the league.[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. Last blog post of the week and we have plenty on the NBA Draft and a few other interesting tidbits in “The Stack” so let’s get right to it:
1. Kyrie Irving, Derrick Williams go one, two.
The NBA Draft took [...]