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Although the Americans pulled away with a 2 point victory, Barbosa had HIS on Iguodala! That was just NAAAAASTY! UGH!!! (c) PUSHA T

Spotted at SlamOnline

Why you think he was Rookie of the year last season? Dude is just nasty with it! After the jump, catch highlights from John Wall & HS Superstar Austin Rivers. they had a nice little duel going on.

Hoop Mixtape

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Lebron James First Miami Heat Workout with Coach Erik Spoelstra. Can’t wait for the season to start!!!

Spotted at Dime Wars

It’s a Ron Shelton creation, whose film credits as writer/director include Bull Durham and White Man Can’t Jump. The close to hour long film Jordan Rides the Bus discusses Michael Jordan’s sudden retirement from basketball to pursue a baseball career. This ESPN 30 for 30 movie gives insight into how MJ’s respite from the NBA helped him. The film shows how even superstars are just as vulnerable as everyone else

Props: Yardie

Here’s the first magazine the Heat’s trio will be featured in. SI was in Miami at the Heat 15000 + party. Watch every other sport mags follow in SI footsteps.

Sidebar: Signed Haslem, Big Z joined King James & we’re still trying to get my “main man” (a la Ahmad Rashad) Mike Miller. Things are looking good so far.

Where will Lebron go? I really want him to stay in Cleveland if not, go to New York. Can’t see him going to the Heat with Wade & Bosh. Sources say he will join them in Miami. The whole world is watching. Tell a friend to tell a friend. Moment of truth is HERE!!! #STAYINCLEVELAND

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that Oklahoma City Thunder small forward, Kevin Durant, will be the cover athlete for NBA ELITE 11. A 2010 NBA All-Star, Durant became the youngest player in NBA history to lead the league in scoring this past season, and he helped lead the Thunder to an impressive 50 win season and an NBA Playoffs berth. NBA ELITE 11 is currently in development under the EA SPORTS™ brand by EA Canada in Vancouver, B.C. and will be available worldwide this October.

NBA ELITE 11 introduces significant gameplay changes that promise to revolutionize the basketball videogame experience. Hands-On Control is an innovative new control scheme that allows for one-to-one responsiveness of a player’s movement and actions on the court, as opposed to predetermined animations from the past that require users to wait while a scenario played out before making the next move. Hands-On Control is unique to NBA ELITE 11 and it is used to manage everything within a player’s offensive and defensive arsenal, including: dribble moves, dunks, drives to the basket, fadeaways, mid-air adjustments, blocks, steals and more.

“I’ve always been a fan of EA SPORTS,” said Durant. “This has been an exciting year for me and the team, and capping it off with being on the cover of NBA ELITE 11 is cool.”

“Durant is a game changer,” said Jordan Edelstein, VP Marketing, EA SPORTS. “There has never been a player his size with his skill set, and there has never before been a basketball videogame like NBA ELITE. Just like we see Durant as the future of the NBA, NBA ELITE 11 represents the future of basketball videogames by providing a gameplay experience you simply won’t find anywhere else on the market.”

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Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that NBA ELITE will be the new moniker of the long running EA SPORTS™ NBA videogame franchise. NBA ELITE 11 will revolutionize the way basketball simulation games are played, with an all-new technology base, a new control scheme and a real-time physics system. Currently in development for the PLAYSTATION®3 and the XBOX™ 360, NBA ELITE 11 will be available in retail stores this October.

“We plan to profoundly evolve the interactive basketball experience in a way that the category has not seen for a decade,” says Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “In NBA ELITE 11, we’ll introduce a gameplay experience that gives fans the control on the court that they have been begging for in a basketball game for years.”

Using the design principles from some of EA SPORTS top rated franchises, NBA ELITE 11 introduces several significant gameplay changes that center around user control. The new ‘Hands-On Control’ scheme allows for one-to-one responsiveness of a player’s movement and actions on the court, as opposed to traditional predetermined animations that require users to wait while a scenario played out before making the next move. Hands-on Control applies to everything within a player’s offensive and defensive arsenal, including: dribble moves, dunks, drives to the basket, fadeaways, mid-air adjustments, blocks, steals and more.

The new real-time physics system in NBA ELITE 11 allows each player on the court to move independently of one another, removing the two-man interactions that have long taken the user control out of basketball simulation videogames. In addition, a new skill-based shooting system requires accurate user input, based on a player’s position on the court, versus the randomly generated dice rolls that have driven shooting in basketball videogames in the past.

“NBA ELITE 11 will give gamers the same skill set that a pro basketball player has at his disposal,” said David Littman, Creative Director, NBA ELITE 11. “This is the first basketball simulation videogame where you are controlling every movement, dribble move, shot, dunk, lay-up, steal and block in real time with one-to-one control. You’re no longer going to push a button and watch the computer generate a long animation sequence. It is like being on a basketball court with an amazing set of skills. This is going to change what people have come to expect from a basketball simulation videogame.”

“From the first day of development on this product, it was clear that we intended to pioneer a groundbreaking change in the basketball videogame segment,” said Jordan Edelstein, VP Marketing, EA SPORTS. “It’s a whole new game that warranted a brand new name to fully capture the transformation we intend to deliver in NBA ELITE.”

#NBALIVEFORLIFE

Ben Orborne says:

SLAM’s publisher and I—with the backing of the rest of our staff—have been wanting to do an issue like this (flip covers, 100 pages, with each guy getting 50, and a dope pullout poster in the middle to separate them) for a good 18 months now. But it took time to gather up the stories, build up the photo archives, and get Nike on board with some ad support. We finally got all the key commitments around late March and slotted this in to drop during the Conference Finals. Well, here we are. Trust me: if you like one or both of these players, and/or just want a keepsake of NBA basketball in 2010, you need this magazine. Look for it on newsstands everywhere next week.

You know which mag I’m copping!

Here’s what you need to know: King James : 21 points in the first quarter…10 more wins until we reach our goal! My Cleveland Cavaliers score box after the jump.

Get your popcorn ready and enjoy!

Sdebar: Hov & Bee saw history right before their eyes. Bet you JayZ was spitting “History” through out the whoooole game.
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