HOW TO UPGRADE YOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Organizing a successful basketball tournament or league takes up a lot of effort and manpower. The key to making it all work is by focusing on the participants and providing the best value with your ‘product.’ Make the extra effort to ensure it runs as professionally as possible. Here are some ways for you to add value to make it something worthwhile for your customers. Read more

TOP TEAMS STUMBLE EARLY

For the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers, high hopes turned to disappointments pretty darned quickly. Read more

BOLD PREDICTIONS

We at Ball or Die can’t wait for the season to get started. There’s nothing like the beginning of a new season, which brings renewed hope for the teams and cities that were in the thick of things last season. For those on a rebuilding team, it’s time to test your general manager’s mettle and skill in upgrading his squad. For the first few games, anything can happen. Read more

IVERSON’S FALL FROM GRACE

It’s been over 10 years since I’ve watched Allen Iverson enter the league. Here was a skinny 6 0 shooting guard who would take on the giant size men of the NBA with reckless abandon and dominate. It was awe inspiring to watch him play on the court dazzling us with his killer crossover and unstoppable quickness. Read more

OBSCURE, BUT ENTERTAINING, BALLER FLICKS

There are a ton of obvious selections to the pantheon of great basketball films. “Hoosiers” is a classic, while “Hoop Dreams” is a brilliant contemporary look at street life and the dream of going pro. Read more

2009-2010 SEASON: WHAT TO LOOK FOR

The new season is almost upon us, and it’s ripe full of drama. We’ve already got crazy trades, a possible Russian buyout, a celebrity wedding, and can look forward to even more desperate moves ahead of the free agent summer of 2010. The questions are endless: will Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers weather the drama to repeat? How are KG’s legs going to hold up? Should I read ESPN or People to get my latest NBA gossip? Read more

INTERVIEW: HOW TO LEAD YOUR SQUAD

The following is a chat with Holly Landau, chief executive and president of Landau Leadership, which provides training and management advice to companies and non-profit organizations. She takes her expertise on leadership in the boardroom, and applies them to the basketball court. Read more

ROCKETS IN FLIGHT?

Watch out, the Houston Rockets may surprise some next season. Read more

NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 7/30

Kevin Durant is a lock for the Olympic team as his play puts him far above the rest of the players trying to make the cut. It’ll be fun to watch a long dynamic scorer like Durant light it up in international play.
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NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 7/23

Blake Griffin gets Summer League MVP honors despite hurting his shoulder in the third game of the summer. He will be the savior for the Los Angeles Clippers, a team that is always under the shadow of the cross-town Lakers. Read more

IVERSON’S FINAL STOP?

Allen Iverson is nearing the twilight of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes temperamental, always entertaining, NBA career. Read more

NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 7/15

Summer league has started with teams able to see their rookies in full action. Although summer league success doesn’t usually measure regular season productivity, rookie Blake Griffin does show he has the skill set to make an impact in the league immediately. Read more

SUPERSTARS WHO MAY GET SHUT OUT

The ’90s were dominated by Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. During Jordan’s reign of terror, countless future Hall of Famers had their chances to win a championship ring foiled. Only during Jordan’s brief retirement did Hakeem Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets win two titles. Among the greats that had their hearts broken by Jordan were Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Reggie Miller and Karl Malone. Read more

THEY CALL ME BRAIN

The following was a story that originally ran on DreamLeague.org.

You know, I’d like to say that China is the new frontier. That it’s the place to be and has nothing but upside written all over it. Read more

NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 7/9

It’s offical as free agents signed on with their respective teams this week. Ron Artest is offically a Laker, Trevor Ariza a Rocket, Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva a Piston. The elite teams haven’t stopped making moves and next year will one of the greatest NBA seasons of all time with the the powerhouses duking it out. The Lakers, Spurs, Cavaliers, and Magic all have upgraded their rosters to face off in a epic battle. Read more

THE MANY FACES OF RON ARTEST

My immediate reaction upon learning that the Los Angeles Lakers had signed Ron Artest should have been enthusiasm over acquiring the stormy forward. Instead, it was trepidation. Read more

NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 7/2

It’s been a sad week with the passing of one of the greatest pop icons of our generation. Michael Jackson will be missed by fans and NBA players alike. The NBA draft has passed and free agency is upon us. The Pistons has the most cap room this off-season and look as if they will be signing Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva. The gap between the talent in the Eastern and Western Conference teams have closed and it will be an exciting 2009-10 season. Read more

BIGGEST BALLS IN THE NBA

NBA athletes are at peak physical condition but what separates the standout players from the regular ones is the willingness to sacrifice their bodies for the good of the team. It takes a level of willingness and chutzpah to do what other players are afraid to do. Here’s a look at the NBA players with the biggest kahunas. Read more

RIVALS LOADING UP

With the Los Angeles Lakers king of the castle, a few of the other contenders are bulking up with the hopes dethroning the champs. The San Antonio Spurs kicked it off by trading for All-Star-caliber forward Richard Jefferson. The Cleveland Cavaliers, however, seriously loaded up by pairing Shaquille O’Neal with LeBron James, setting up a dream NBA Finals match-up. Read more

NBA TWEETS OF THE WEEK: 6/24

Did you watch Griffin or Nash when they were in NYC? Read more

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