Which NBA father and son would be the best? If the most successful father-son duos in league history played a type of round robin affair against each other, here’s how they might finish, from worst to first: #8. One reason the Dunleavys are seventh/last on this list is because it’s so hard to find…
Killing MJ, Part I Let us tally the points against Michael Jordan’s 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…
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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’…
Think about why you like Vince Carter. It’s about game, and how he runs it. Not saying that substance completely trumps style, but if Vince was all style and substance-free, we’d be over him by now. So would you. Instead, he resides in that rare space where style and substance share top billing. –SLAM magazine,…
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…
What’s the deal with Kobe Bryant’s facial expression in the Finals? Or better yet, why did he lose that look? Kobe had what Dr. Jack Ramsay called “that jaw-jutting, vampire look” for the first two games in L.A. The Lakers won both games–the first, because Orlando couldn’t make shots. The second, because despite an admittedly…