“For the most part, I just follow the players’ lead.” Adam Silver, when asked by Bomani Jones about his NBA Draft “dap journey.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/sports/basketball/adam-silver-and-the-art-of-giving-dap.html
Lies the Sports Industry is Selling You
Anybody with an ounce of discernment knows that sports are big business in our time. But somehow, this fact becomes easy to forget when we are caught up in the entertainment. This disconnect is related to what happens when we watch Hollywood films. Our brains cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality, once we…
Keep A Brother Down: Holding Athletes in College Won’t Improve Basketball
The lie of assuming that keeping basketball players in college for one, two, or more years will improve the game is rising again. Why do well-meaning people, most of them considered sports “experts”, believe that the NBA and college basketball would benefit from such a rule? The common reasons: young players would have more time…