LeBron James? LeBron James Jr.? In the NBA? At the same time? It could happen. And LeBron senior is hoping it does: This would be cool. As the LeBron Wire’s Chris Ross pointed out, the James boys would be the first father-son duo to play in the NBA together. That’d make for a compelling storyline, [...]
March 13, 2018
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Do you often go to bed fantasizing about the NBA of the early and mid-2000s and wish you could see some of your players from your childhood grace the hardwood again? Do you wish that a professional 3-on-3 basketball league existed where these retired stars could flourish? I have good news for you, your dream [...]
January 12, 2017
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Popular, ESPN affiliated statistical analysis website Fivethirtyeight posted some interesting numbers about the affect an Olympic basketball experience has on NBA stars in their regular season. Many assume, and understandably so, that players who add in the grind of a month long Olympic experience to shorten their already brief offseason would end up hampered by [...]
August 17, 2016
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Coming into the Rio Olympics, the only team that was viewed as having any real shot to put a scare into the U.S. Men’s Olympic team was the Spanish National Team. Boasting an abundance of NBA talent and high level European experience and having lost to the Americans in the gold medal game in 2008 [...]
August 10, 2016
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Damian Lillard is flying under the radar so far in his young career. Much to his chagrin. He’s none to pleased about constantly being overlooked for all-star games and being left out of the “best PG” conversation. But in his defense, he’s sixth in scoring so it’s hard to argue against him. Today, Lillard was [...]
February 11, 2016
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Back in October, the NBA world got a quick chuckle when rumors broke of a physical altercation between Knicks coach Derek Fisher and Matt Barnes of the Grizzlies. The recently-separated Fisher was reportedly at the home of Barnes, seeing his estranged wife. When Barnes learned of this, it didn’t sit well with him and he [...]
December 28, 2015
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For those of us not yet supremely focused on college hoops, some pretty sweet NCAA history was made over the weekend as BYU senior Kyle Collinsworth tallied 26 points, 10 boards, and 10 assists in a win over Belmont. For the layman, that’s a triple-double, what has become a rarity in the college ranks since [...]
November 30, 2015
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The basketball world has always taken notice of the true larger than life personalities that have patrolled the hardwood like the 7’6 Yao Ming, 7’6 Manute Bol, as well as former #2 overall NBA Draft pick 7’6 Shawn Bradley. Size is something that cannot be taught and is marveled at by most of us of [...]
November 26, 2015
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There has been a ton of hype surrounding last year’s #1 ranked high school player Ben Simmons as he is playing his first season in the college ranks with the LSU Tigers. Just last week he made some history, joining only Anthony Davis and Kevin Love, as the only #1 ranked HS players to notch [...]
November 24, 2015
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Kevin McHale is out for the Houston Rockets. J.B Bickerstaff is in. At some point in the near future, though, someone else may be in—Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau, for instance. In breaking the news that McHale had been canned, Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski also briefly discussed potential replacements, identifying Van Gundy and Thibodeau [...]
November 19, 2015
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