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  • Charles Barkley wants to be NBA GM (AP)

    Charles Barkley thinks he can do better than some of the general managers he criticizes on TV. The Hall of Fame player and TNT analyst said Monday he'd like his chance to run an NBA team, though he's in no rush because he'd want the right job. "I think that it'd be fun to try to build my own team," Barkley said at a luncheon, joined by studio partners Kenny Smith and Ernie…

  • Isiah ‘hurt’ over Magic’s book comments (AP)

    FILE - In this April 16, 2008 file photo, New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas watches from the bench as his team played the Indiana Pacers in the first half of NBA basketball action in Indianapolis. Thomas has told SI.com that he is "really hurt" over criticisms levied by Magic Johnson in a new book chronicling the careers of Johnson and Larry Bird. According to the SI.com report, Johnson said Thomas questioned his sexuality after the Los Angeles Lakers star retired in 1991 after being diagnosed with HIV. Johnson also tells the Web site that he helped play a role in keeping Thomas off the 1992 U.S. Olympic team. Neither FIU nor a Thomas representative had any immediate comment Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.

    Hall of Fame players Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson famously kissed each other's cheek moments before tip-off of Game 1 of the 1988 NBA finals. Today, the relationship clearly isn't anywhere near as close. In Thomas' mind, a 17-year-old wound has been reopened in a new book that Johnson and Larry Bird wrote with author Jackie MacMullan.

  • Hall of Fame spruces up for enshrinement (AP)

    A $1 million improvement project at Springfield's historic Symphony Hall will be mostly completed in time for the Sept. 11 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. The ceremony is usually held at the Hall of Fame, which can accommodate about 1,200 people. With this year's high-profile class that includes Michael Jordan, David Robinson and John Stockton, the event was…

  • Aubrey’s Sex Tape Comes Out Next Week

    Posted by: LittleMissDivasWorld Aubrey is currently preparing for her Las Vegas debut in “Peepshow,” as well as working on her very own reality show. “There’s a lot of problems I’m having doing it, in the sense that everyone’s really used to making 15-minutes-of-fame-type shows, shows that have train wrecks,” she told MTV News. “I don’t want to play a role to get ratings…I don’t want to make up story lines. We’ve made up enough story lines for Making the Band. I want to make a reality show. I want to tell people the truth. I’m doing some gritty things.”