LeBron James recently proposed a league-wide retirement of Michael Jordan’s No.23 jersey. James says he’ll start by ditching his own No.23 in favor of a new jersey number (6) next season, which inspired last week’s post about the 12 Most Memorable Jersey Changes in NBA History. As you might expect, Jordan has been asked to weigh in on this. Hey MJ, what do you think about retiring number 23? Read the rest of this entry »

The Memphis Grizzlies announced the termination of Allen Iverson’s one-year contract with the team in what it called a mutual agreement. Iverson took an indefinite leave of absence on Nov. 7 after playing only three games with Memphis. He complained non-stop about his role as a reserve.

The two sides have agreed to terminate his contract and Iverson is expected to be placed on waivers by 6 p.m. ET Monday. Iverson will only get an undisclosed portion of the $3 million he was scheduled to earn. He will become an unrestricted free agent on Wednesday night if he clears waivers.

Hey, I hear Houston is in dire need of a shooting guard. I keed! I keed!! Good luck getting another NBA team to sign your whiny ass, Allen. Well, this gives him enough time to focus on his rap career.

LeBron James announced last night that he’s considering changing his jersey number. James told TNT’s Craig Sager that he will likely ditch No. 23 and switch to No. 6 (his Team USA number) as a way of honoring his idol Michael Jordan. This made me think of other great players that have changed their jersey numbers for various reasons. Here are 12 other NBA greats that switched jersey numbers at some point in their career.
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I saw this dunk live last night and it brought me out of my seat. It was an all-time sensational dunk. I must have replayed it 46 times. Even LeBron James couldn’t deny that it was phenomenal dunk. Varejao was salty about it the entire game and kept trying to retaliate in some form. All that did was get him into foul trouble. Adding salt to injury, his own teammate LeBron was gushing about the dunk at the end of the quarter.

And what’s this I’m hearing about LeBron and Wade possibly playing together? Dream on, hoop fans.

Meet KJ, an incredibly skilled 4-year old hoop star. Like one YouTube commenter pointed out, it’s not just his excellent shooting that separates this kid from the rest. It’s his basketball I.Q. – he’s protecting the rock, boxing out (against much taller kids, for that matter), playing off picks, moving without the ball, etc. I want to see him go one on one with LeBron James Jr.

[Via: Hoop Doctors]

After a tumultuous start with the Grizzlies, Allen Iverson may already be on his way out of Memphis. Allen Iverson took an indefinite leave of absence from the team today, following a meeting with the team’s owner Michael Heisley and Coach Lionel Hollins. Word on the street is that he may be gone for good. The Grizzlies didn’t want to deal with AI’s insistence that he be put in the starting lineup.

Iverson signed with Memphis in the offseason for 1 yr/$3.5 Million. He only played 3 games this season. If you do the math, that amounts to roughly $1 Million per game. Yikes!

Though AI is a prolific scorer, I have my doubts about his ability to make a team better at this stage in his career. I hate to be the one bemoaning the obvious. I’d rather be the guy on the keyboard when Iverson finally realizes that there’s no “I” in team. But that’s probably never going to happen.

The Grizzlies will still be a solid team without A.I., which raises questions about Memphis’ decision to recruit him in the first place. They brought him in to sell tickets. Period.

Women’s soccer bores me to tears. Throw in some punching and hair-pulling and it’s suddenly worth watching. That’s exactly what happened during a recent match between the BYU Cougars and New Mexico Lobos. New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert takes cheap shots at different BYU players throughout the game. At one point she vicioulsly yanks BYU’s Kassidy Shumway by her ponytail. Shumway dives to the grass. No call. Was the referee asleep or what?

Elizabeth Lambert is obviously in the wrong profession. She should be in the UFC. Pop the lid to see Lambert, arguably the gulliest player in women’s soccer, in action.
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A Dallas Cowboys cheerleader has brought attention to herself by donning the dumbest Halloween costume of the year. Take a close look and see if you can figure out which hip-hop celebrity 21-year-old Whitney Isleib was trying to impersonate. Man, there’s no way she could have pulled this off without wearing blackface. [/s]

Peep the news clip and some bizarre pics under the hood.
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