Rasheed Wallace reveals nicknames for his teammates. Stuckey is Young 50 because, according to Sheed, he looks just like 50 Cent.

If you missed the neato scuffle between the Rockets and the Suns, I got you covered like a parking spot. Late in the 3rd quarter, Matt Barnes threw a cheap shot at Rafer Alston while T-Mac was in the middle of a 3-pointer. Skip ran up in Barnes’ face. Shaq started pushing people around. Then Nash came in. (WTF was Nash thinking?) The funniest part was after the game when Aaron Brooks was asked about the melee and he said “As soon as Shaq came in, I knew I had to get outta there.”

Bottom Line: Matt Barnes is a sore loser.

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If you’ve seen a Nuggets game recently you may have noticed that Carmelo Anthony has ditched his trademark rows. Well, if the above video is anything to go by, it turns out that ‘Melo lost his hair when he lost an NBA Live bet. It just so happened that someone was around with camera in hand to capture the bet from various angles. I’m just saying…

After Yao hit a jumper and made his free-throw with 0.8 secs left, I thought it was all over. Then Brandon Roy struck like lightning with that miraculous 3-pointer. I didn’t know you could catch a ball, pivot, and release a shot in less than a second.

Haha! I’m only posting this because Q-Tip is the man. On the real, Tip, you’re wasting your breath. You can scream “Nuuuu Yawwwk” from now till Kingdom Come but it won’t help them make playoffs. With all due respect to Mike D’Antoni, the Knicks will end up with in the bottom 2 again this season.

And with Iverson now back in the East, the path to post-season just got a little harder.

Reggie Miller is 110% right. That’s a perfect example of guilty by reputation right there. I don’t think it should’ve been a technical foul, either. Unless the refs are blind, they can clearly see that Ron ran up to pull Yao away from the would-be melee. Nothing mavericky about that technical foul.

All that matters at the end of the day: Rockets 112, Dallas 102

Here’s the trailer for NBA 2K9, which hits streets on October 31. I’ve been loyal to 2K for the last 2 years, but I have to say that 2K8 wasn’t really such a huge improvement on 2K7. I’m seriously considering NBA Live this year. What say ye?

I stayed up and watched my team defeat Spain 118 - 107 to win the gold medal in basketball early this morning. It was truly an exciting game, the first one to go all the way down to the wire for Team USA.

Kobe and D-Wade were the standout players, but how about that magnificent performance by Juan Carlos Navarro? He must have dropped at least 200 runners. Spain played very well and that’s an understatement. For some reason, U.S. defenders just couldn’t keep Marc Gasol off the paint.

I don’t know if U.S. would’ve won without Kobe’s 4th Quarter showdown, where he got Rudy Fernandez into foul trouble on a long three that turned it into a 4-point play to extend the lead to 102 - 92 with just 3 minutes to go.

That said, this was the most fascinating play from the game.