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Tip-Off Timer: 11 Straight Seasons of 2,000 Points For Malone

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Friday, there are 11 days remaining. The NBA All-Star Game every year is filled with players who never score 2,000 points in a single season. Karl Malone did it a record 11 consecutive seasons, the most significant statistic he recorded...

Tip-Off Timer: Wilt Snags 55 Rebounds

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Wednesday, there are 55 days remaining. There are no cheap records in the NBA. But one of the most eye-popping records Wilt Chamberlain holds, all things considered, is his mark for most rebounds in a game: 55, captured against Bill...

Tip-Off Timer: 67 Belongs To Wilt

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Friday, there are 67 days remaining. Scoring 100 points in an NBA game was such a phenomenal feat that it may never be matched. Yet that century mark isn't what defined Wilt Chamberlain as the greatest scoring machine in NBA history....

Dwight Howard Quietly Making History

Dwight Howard is on the verge of making history and no one seems to notice. He's averaging 2.9 blocks and 14.0 rebounds a game, putting him on pace to become not only the youngest player to lead the league in blocked shots (beating out Marcus Camby by nearly a year) but also only the fifth player in NBA history to lead the...

Wilt Chamberlain Could Score His Own Stamp

If there's anyone that's done more scoring in the history of the NBA and that would deserve to be recognized by the world in stamp form, it's Wilt Chamberlain. A group of Philadelphians are promoting the possibility and hope that the US Postal Service will approve. Originally, the group wanted to have Chamberlain's stamp...

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05/18/12 The Totally Tubular Stanley Cup Favorites Source: The Daily Fix - The Wall Street Journal Good enough to have knocked off the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the playoffs, good enough to claim a 3-0 series lead over the Phoenix Coyotes in the Western Conference finals on Thursday night, good enough to look like contenders for years to come.
05/09/12 UNC basketball great Lennie Rosenbluth (center) is... Source: The Herald-Sun - Durham NC When Lennie Rosenbluth first came to North Carolina in 1953, he couldn't give away the complimentary basketball tickets he received â his friends would go to the movies instead.
05/07/12 âGentleman Exec' Retires After Four Decades with... Source: Fishbowl LA - Mediabistro.com They don't make journalism careers like this anymore.
05/04/12 Best high school hoops players of past 35 years Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA With the idea of focusing solely on the DN era, I have deleted the stars from the 1976 and '77 seasons, some of whom were very prominent on previous lists, and fashioned 35-year teams that include only players from the '78 through 2012 seasons.