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No No No: Dikembe stuffs Kobe
“Dikembe put his left hand on Kobe’s rib, foul” kobe aint even tried yeah looks like he was coasting and tried to turn it too late He had an easy layup. Didn’t have the lift for a dunk. finger wag! Ewwwww shit Nice šš¼ Did he finger wag and get a T Because certainly no…
The Slow and Deliberate Dismantling of Michael Jordan, Part II
Killing MJ, Part I Let us tally the points against Michael Jordanās legacy. Number one: He was very good, but only because he had the right pieces around him. Except, that is true of every champion athlete. No one ever said Jordan did it all alone, yet every MJ legacy critic sets that straw man…
International Flair: Ten-minute basketball history lessons
Arvydas Sabonis. He helped win multiple medals in international competition. Meanwhile, Sabonis spent a brilliant career dominating European basketball. A cross between Shaquille OāNeal and Larry Bird, the 7-3 Lithuanian had handle, height, and heft like no other. Fans note his injuries with sadness, knowing that a great career was stunted. But Sabonis helped cement…
Revisionist History: The Slow and Deliberate Dismantling of Michael Jordan
Babe Ruthās dominance is not respected by casual fans, nor by sports talking heads who want to whip up some controversy. Jerry West and Rick Barry and Wilt are afterthoughts to the modern sports observer, who refuses to consider that athletes were tough and fast and smart prior to 1990. This erosion of great athletesā…
Playground Pick āEm: Was Vince v. Kobe really ever a thing?
Think about why you like Vince Carter. Itās about game, and how he runs it. Not saying that substance completely trumps style, but if Vince was all style and substance-free, weād be over him by now. So would you. Instead, he resides in that rare space where style and substance share top billing. –SLAM magazine,…
NBA G.O.A.T: Do We Adjust For Era?
Gerald Wilkins, Michael Cooper, Orlando Woolridge, Xavier McDaniels, Mitch Richmond, Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars and Gary Payton.Ā (feel free to add more in ‘comments’) Those are a few of the Michael Jordan-era NBA players that served as competition for “His Airness”. Superb professional basketballĀ defenders, among their other talents. There is a movement afoot to claim thatĀ the…
Kobe Bryant: Un-fadeable Confidence, Down to the Last
It wasn’t so much that he expected greatness of himself, but that he seemed to think it was destined, SLAM magazine wrote in 2004. How he just knew it was coming. Mostly, though, it was how he went about it all, and how it never quite looked… authentic. Like he was always trying. Trying to…