LeBron James 2010 NBA Most Valuable Player

Young Money - "Bed Rock"

Spurs Closeout Second Seed Mavs in 6

Tyreke Evans 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year

Lakers Regain Control of Series, Up 3-2 On Thunder

LeBron, Cavs Close-Out Bulls, Face Celtics in 2nd Round

Jamal Crawford 2010 NBA 6th Man of The Year

Classic Hip Hop Track - Group Home - "Supa Star"

Magic Complete First Round Sweep of Bobcats

LeBron's Triple Double Silences Chicago in GM 4

Wade's Hot Hand Keeps Heat Alive, Trail Celtics 3-1

Thunder Route Lakers in GM 4, Even Series at 2

Roy's Return Sparks GM 4 Win, Blazers Even Series at 2

Pierce Hits Game 3 Winning Shot, Go Up 3-0 On Heat

B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars - "Nothin' On You"

Album Release: April 27, 2010

Durant, Westbrook and Thunder Step Up Versus Lakers, Series Now 2-1

NBA 2K10 "Mamba vs Pooh"

KG Ready for GM 3

NCAA Tournament Expansion?

The NCAA Division I Basketball Committee has recommended that the tournament field expand to 68 teams instead of the proposed increase to 96 teams starting in 2011. This recommendation will allow the same structure to the tournament which currently includes 65 teams with no extra rounds of games to be played.

Aaron Brooks 2010 NBA Most Improved Player

31 Greatest MC's Of All-Time

In honor of the first rap record released 31 years ago (Sugar Hill Gangs' Rappers Delight) we present our list of the 31 greatest emcees to ever touch a microphone, in the most objective light of course, accompanied by a music video that embodies their work. Why not? Everybody else has one.

# 1. Rakim (Eric B. & Rakim)



# 2. Tupac



# 3. The Notorious BIG



# 4. Nas



# 5. Jay Z



# 6. Krs-One (Boogie Down Productions)



# 7. LL Cool J



# 8. Big Daddy Kane



# 9. Ice Cube (NWA)



# 10. DMC (Run DMC)



# 11. Snoop Dogg



# 12. Andre 3000 (Outkast)



# 13. Slick Rick



# 14. Scarface (The Getto Boys)



# 15. Kool G. Rap (Kool G. Rap & Dj Polo)



# 16. Redman



# 17. Common (Common Sense)



# 18. Method Man (Wu-Tang Clan)



# 19. Eminem



# 20. DMX



# 21. Chuck D (Public Enemy)



# 22. Mc Lyte



# 23. Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest)



# 24. Ghostface (Wu-Tang Clan)



# 25. Big Pun



# 26. Lauryn Hill (The Fugees)



# 27. Prodigy (Mobb Deep)



# 28. Mos Def



# 29. Jadakiss (The Lox)



# 30. Busta Rhymes (Leaders of The New School)



# 31. Black Thought (The Roots)



There you have it, the 31 greatest Mc's ever! We argue that a better list does not exist!

NOTE: Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow and other rap pioneers who precede the now standard form of rhyme, while not on this list, are acknowledged and highly respected for their contributions.

Scott Brooks 2010 NBA Coach of The Year

Lil Wayne - "I'm Single"

Lakers Honor Chick Hearn With Statue

Marge Hearn, widow of legendary Lakers announcer Chick Hearn, playfully poses with late husbands’ new statue during the unveiling outside of Staples Center.

No KG, No Problem as Celtics Take GM 2

Dwight Howard 2010 NBA Defensive Player of The Year

This is Dwight's second consecutive Kia Motors Defensive Player of the Year Award.

KG Talks About Being Suspended for GM 2

Hip Hop Legend Guru Passes Away

Rap legend Guru lost his bout with cancer Monday at the age of 43. Guru, whose real name was Keith Elam, was an emcee from Boston who made his mark on the New York City rap scene while garnering respect and acclaim upon co-founding and forming one half of rap super group Gang Starr, releasing six albums between 1989-2003. While Guru the emcee will forever missed, the humble spirit of Keith Elam will never be forgotten.

Khalid H. Williams

Loungin' Guru featuring Donald Byrd

KG Suspended for GM 2 vs. Heat

Doc Rivers on KG Ejection

KG Ejected for Swinging Elbow in GM 1

Diggy Simmons - "Made You Look"

Diggy Simmons, son of rap icon Run of Run DMC and nephew of Hip Hop mogul Russell Simmons, ushers in a new generation of young rappers while carrying on the legendary Simmons name.

2010 NBA Playoffs Promo Commercial "Focus"

Kurtis Blow - "Basketball"

Welcome

I was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, home of the New York Yankees and birth place of Hip Hop. I’m now mature enough to admit that as a kid I used paper towels, aluminum foil, and plastic wrap bunched within rubber bands to simulate a baseball, then performed my best Dave Righetti imitation, standing ten feet from my mothers’ multi-layered canvas on the wall as my target. Even being the tried and true New York Yankee fans that I am to this day, basketball is the sport that captured my imagination. Although I can go on for days about my fondness of the music that my parents and grandparents grew up listening to such as Al Green, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and The Temptations, I’m a proud product of the generation that established Hip Hop culture, for I could identify with Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, and L.L. Cool J.

My first memories of watching a basketball game were in the mid-eighties when Reggie Williams starred at Georgetown University and the Los Angeles Lakers battled the Boston Celtics for NBA supremacy. Magic Johnson became my basketball idol and the Lakers my favorite team. Nevertheless, it was not until the 1987 NBA all-star game when I watched Tom Chambers come off the bench to win the game MVP award that I declared I wanted to be a basketball player. Immediately following the game I dressed in enough layers of clothing to meet my mothers’ approval, dashed out the door and into the freezing weather with my basketball. I practiced alone on the icy court until it was absolutely time to go home.

The first Hip Hop record I recall listening to on the radio was Jam On It by Newcleus. The first Hip Hop video I remember seeing was Basketball by Kurtis Blow. However, coming from the borough that produced Boogie Down Productions featuring Krs-One and the block where the now world famous Kid Capri once dee-jayed block parties while producing his citywide respected and demanded mix-tapes, every moment of my life was and is now somehow stooped in Hip Hop. Hip Hop had such an impact on me that I never dreamed of being the next Krs-One or Kid Capri. Having been enamored and honored to experience Hip Hop performed in its purest form from a first hand perspective was more than self satisfying to me. My name is Khalid Williams. I love the game of basketball and I am Hip Hop.

Khalid H. Williams