via www.nba.com NEW YORK -- Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks will coach the Western Conference All-Stars for the 2014 NBA All-Star Game to be played on Sunday, Feb. 16, at New Orleans Arena. The Thunder (36-10, .783) clinched the best record in the Western Conference through games played Feb. 2, by virtue of the Portland Trail Blazers' [...]

Via Today.com Charvis Brewer, an 8-year-old super-fan of the Memphis Grizzlies, has bragging rights that most children can only dream about. On Sunday, the basketball team drafted Charvis as its newest and youngest member. The ceremony, complete with a mock press conference, team photograph and visit to the locker room, was orchestrated by Make-A-Wish, a non-profit [...]

Via ESPN.com In the spring of 1988, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts was preparing to accept a job offer from Upjohn pharmaceuticals. He’d spent the eight years since graduating from the University of Oklahoma bouncing around the basketball world: cut after three months from a professional team in Italy; three seasons playing for [...]

Via Toronto Sun   For a man that knows the value of physically dominating an opponent, Dwane Casey isn't a big fan of all the friendly exchanges between teams once the whistle blows. Whether it's the pre-tipoff hugs or the bum pats during a game or even helping an opponent up from the hardwood, the [...]

Via NewsOK.com   For the Monday Oklahoman, I wrote about Kendrick Perkins and his Celtic ties. You can read that column here. I also had a conversation with injured Boston star Rajon Rondo, who isn’t giving interviews but agreed to chat about his old pal Perk. And one of the things I asked him is how Perkins [...]

Via TechCrunch.com Twitter has begun experimenting with an account, called @AchievementBird, that will direct message you ‘achievements’ that you earn with your tweets. The account is protected but has granted follows in the past few days. Once you’re on the list, the account will occasionally send you messages about how one of your tweets has performed. [...]

Via Mashable.com Last year was a great year in the web analytics world. We saw awesome advancements from just about every vendor in the web analytics industry. Some of my favorite achievements of the past 12 months were: -Google rolled out the Google Tag Manager to the masses and launched very cool functions such as [...]

Via wired.com One Thursday night in May, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Ranadive pulled a Sacramento Kings basketball jersey over his purple pinstripe dress shirt and walked onstage as 10,000 people roared. The crowd packed Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Sacramento to celebrate Ranadive’s $534 million acquisition of the team and his promise to keep it [...]