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Bird, Curry, and long distance flurries: NBA white boys
We know the obvious similarities between Steph Curry and Larry Bird: They shoot threes real good, they’re white, and they’re fragile. 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 Will Curry (~670 as of mid-February 2019) pass Bird (897) in total NBA games played? I know, I know… Bird was anything but fragile. And Curry’s injuries are largely thought of as “freaky”,…
GREAT 8: NBA all-time franchise team ranking
Here is this site’s official ranking for franchises’ all-time teams. Did we get it right? Let us know! Click here *** >Keeping a brother down >Era-skipping comparisons in sports >>Kobe’s jaw
Underrated All-Stars: Mark Price, NBA
Saying that someone is a “Point GOD” is a way of saying that he is very good at playing the point guard position. I don’t know why you’re bringing God into this basketball stuff. But 1980’s-90’s NBA player Mark Price was definitely elite when he played in the league. Today’s NBA fanatic largely disagrees with…
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 O’Neal 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 Ruth’s 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 athletes’…
Dream Team vs. Current Stars: Something old, something new
What Kobe Bryant said prior to the London Games was actually fairly reasonable: he said the 2012 Olympic basketball team could beat the 1992 team. Not “We’d kill ’em.” We can be sure that he didn’t volunteer it. He was asked, and he answered. That statement was tepidly co-signed by LeBron James. Michael Jordan and…