Quoted: ESPN and ESPN 2 will televise the USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team's five-game exhibition schedule beginning Friday, July 25.The USA men will tip off its schedule when it faces Canada in the 2008 State Farm USA Basketball Challenge at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 25 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. ESPN2 will then televise

Richard MacManus over on ReadWriteWeb wrote about InfiniteHoops. Awesome!

Quoted: Last week we started a new series called Mainstream Web Watch, in which we'll be exploring how the Social Web is infiltrating mainstream culture. We started out with NBA.com last week, to celebrate the end of the basketball season and the crowning of a new champion (Boston Celtics). In this post we look at another mainstream basketball site, but this time a small niche site created by someone with a passion for the sport - InfiniteHoops.com.

Quoted: In the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, Marcia C. Smith reports "History lends the Lakers, who are down 3-2 in the best-of-7 NBA Finals, the word never. Only eight teams in NBA history have rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win a seven-game playoff series, but no team has ever done it to win an NBA championship.

Quoted: The Los Angeles Lakers' 103-98 win over the Boston Celtics to avoid elimination averaged a 10.1 fast national rating on ABC, the network said Monday. That's an 11 percent increase over the 9.1 for Game 5 of the Dallas-Miami series in 2006.

Quoted: Game 3 of the NBA Finals drew the highest television ratings of the series. The Lakers' 87-81 win Tuesday night earned a 9.2 rating on ABC, the network said Wednesday. That's up 44 percent from the 6.4 last year for Spurs-Cavaliers.

Here's a nice picture of Mr. 36 Points for Drock.

Quoted: The Lakers held on to win tonight, 87-81, over the Boston Celtics at Staples Center in Game 3 of the finals, slicing the Celtics' series lead to 2-1.

Quoted:"Bring your game to your social graph."
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Tonight we're turning on the beta of our Facebook application. If you use Facebook, you can publish your InfiniteHoops game status to your news and mini-feeds so your friends know when you can play and you can recruit them to your game. Your Facebook profile will show your next game details.

NBA.com has an NBA nickname generator. Funny stuff. I am not in love with Tosh "The Air Conditioner" Meston however. :)

Found this through the Faves widget on InfiniteHoops.

Quoted: Obama is extremely confident with his game, for good reason. He glides more than runs, high and soft on the balls of his feet and with graceful strides that put enough space between himself and his opponents to launch a solid left-handed jump shot. Obama, who usually plays with younger men, says he's a step too fast for most his age.