In addition to a player dropping 30+ points on an opponent or a rim rattling dunk in a defender’s face, ankle breaking crossovers and having ball-on-a-string handles are easily the most exciting plays in basketball. In years past, NBA players like Allen Iverson, Jason Williams, and streetball legend Rafer “Skip To My Lou” Alston have [...]
September 20, 2015
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This is so going to happen. Team USA held its usual scrimmage on Thursday night, which went off without a hitch. No one was injured. Every participant walked away healthy, proving, once again, that Paul George’s broken leg in 2014, while tragic, was a freak anomaly. But that’s not why we’re here. Nor are we [...]
August 14, 2015
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Despite being over a year late, Nike is releasing a new KD8 colorway inspired by Kevin Durant’s attire while accepting the 2013-14 NBA MVP award. With a color-blocking similar to Kevin Durant’s MVP attire from last season, the ‘Suit’ Nike KD8 is constructed with a textile Flyweave upper and articulated outsole under a full-length Zoom [...]
The NBA is doing Christmas Day 2015 right. Most likely. Schedule details are starting to trickle out ahead of the league’s official release, and, naturally, it’s the Association’s slate of Christmas Day tilts that are being dispersed first. On Thursday, ESPN.com’s Marc Stein brought word that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will be [...]
August 7, 2015
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Under Armour’s basketball division has been trending upward for the last few years and aside from the monumental endorsement of Stephen Curry, many will mark the rise of the brand starting with the release of the ClutchFit Drive. Here we get an early look three of the Under Armour ClutchFit Drive 2 colorways that will [...]
Anthony Davis is really good. And he’s about to get even better. Sure, there’s the organic improvement that comes with progressing from a young, budding, superhuman alien to full-fledged cyborg. Davis is only 22, so the things he does well now, he will do even better later. As for the one thing he doesn’t do, [...]
Score this one as a win for general manager Sam Hinkie and the Philadelphia 76ers. Ironic, yes. They’ve spent the last two years actively evading wins. But this is different. Ohio State’s D’Angelo Russell is among the consensus top-three picks in this year’s NBA draft. Everything else about the selection extravaganza, which will take place [...]
June 22, 2015
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LeBron James’ crypticness is winning the NBA Finals. So too are the Cleveland Cavaliers themselves. They lead the Golden State Warriors 2-1 in their best-of-seven set, leaving them two wins away from the first championship in franchise history But, at the risk of being to ridiculous, who cares? LeBron stepped to the podium after Cleveland’s [...]
June 11, 2015
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Andre Iguodala has some brass ones. LeBron James is a superhuman. That’s a fact. We pretend like he’s of this planet, when really, he’s not. He’s a four-time MVP, two-time NBA champion and just overall beast. So when he says he can’t be stopped, as he did when speaking with reporters last week, per Northeast [...]
Jared Dudley wants Carmelo Anthony to know that he’s sorry. The Milwaukee Bucks swingman sent some waves throughout NBA circles on Wendesday when he called Melo the league’s most overrated player during an interview with ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd. Here’s what he said on Melo then, per ESPN New York’s Ian Begley: “The reason I [...]