Hooped Up

Bill Laimbeer has been on two NBA championship squads, coached the Detroit Sock to a championship and has Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball under his belt.  So why doesn’t he have the NBA coaching job that he wants so bad?   Well Chuck Daly has a theory regarding the former original bad boy .

“I think it must be because Billy made a lot of enemies when he was a player. But I tell you what. He is as smart as a whip. Someone is going to get darn lucky in this league,” 

Detroit Free Press

Another Malice at the palace, WNBA style.  A late-game brawl Tuesday in the Los Angeles Sparks’ 84-81 Women’s National Basketball Association win over the Detroit Shock saw three players an assistant coach ejected.  Drama!

The girls game isn’t all below the rim.  Candace Parker has been dunking since back in her college days at Tennessee as a Lady Vol.  Last night, Parker threw down only the second dunk ever in a WNBA game.  

In a few years a Brittany Griner, Candace Parker rivalry can begin!  Good lookin’ out ladies.

Congratulations to Colorado freshman forward Brittany Spears on being named the Big 12 Conference Women’s Basketball Rookie of the Week. Spears helped Colorado win its 10th straight game with a 16-point, seven-rebound effort against Pepperdine.

As for her name, yes, she really is named Brittany Spears, and yes, if you have a joke she’s already heard it. And it gets better. Her roommate is a teammate named Whitney Houston.

“People say, ‘Is that really your name?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, that’s really my name,’” Spears said.
“It’s funny,” Houston said. “My name is going to be Whitney Houston long after they get through the jokes and stuff.”

You can see a picture of Brittany Spears by clicking either of the links above, and the official Colorado basketball roster is here.

A gallery of some of the Lovely Ladies Of The WNBA

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At demand of my Aussie basketball friends, that are absolutely crazy about their national treasure. A Lauren Jackson moment was requested demanded, so he you go mates. For those of you that are not in the know. Laren Jackson is widely considered to be the best Australian female basketball player of all time and one of the best players in the world.

Lauren or “Lozza” has won national championships in both the U.S. and Australia and a world championship as well. She is also well noted for Jackson posed nude in an Australian magazine, Black+White, that featured Olympic athletes who were set to compete in Athens in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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The Hottest WNBA girls, thank you to the half court heave