Metta World Peace never misses an opportunity to tell it like it is. Sometimes, he elects to tell it like it isn’t too, when he’s feeling particularly spunky. Mostly, he’s a source of incorruptible honesty, someone who isn’t afraid to say what everyone else is. And that hasn’t changed. Appearing on Fox Sports 1’s Crowd [...]
August 26, 2013
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Magic Johnson would like to respectfully disagree with LeBron James. In an interview with Fox Sports’ Bill Reiter, The King was asked to name his top three NBA players of all time. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Julius Erving—that’s who he picked. And he also named Magic, after saying it was too difficult to select [...]
August 23, 2013
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It’s hard to believe that Kobe Bean Bryant, otherwise known as the “Black Mamba”, turns 35 years old today. I still can remember Kobe as an arrogant teenager back in 1996, when he was already being mentioned in the same breath as NBA all time great Wilt Chamberlain, as he was shattering Pennsylvania state high [...]
August 23, 2013
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Iman Shumpert is going to let the New York Knicks’ play do the talking. Newly crowned member of the Brooklyn Nets Paul Pierce has a personal vendetta he is seeking to carry about against the Knicks. It’s been that way for more than 15 years, when he began his career with the Boston Celtics. That [...]
August 22, 2013
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It’s about that time of year again when the nation’s top high school players, regardless of class, converge on the asphalt to play in the annual Elite 24 Game. In the past, it has served as a springboard for dozens of future NCAA and NBA stars to show out, old school style, on the outdoors [...]
August 22, 2013
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One can learn a lot of things about Nate Robinson on Twitter. As of this moment, Robinson has almost 935,000 followers and has tweeted more than 14,000 times. A lot can come out in 14,000 tweets, as we know all too well. And a lot has. Most recently, during a rapid-fire question session with his [...]
August 22, 2013
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It’s been a long time coming and seemingly everyone knew it but Allen Iverson, but it appears that the A.I. comeback trail is officially over. Surely we all remember back to a time when Iverson was regularly breaking ankles, embarrassing opposing guards, dropping buckets, and lighting up scoreboards at an alarming rate. Hard to believe, [...]
August 22, 2013
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Before there was James Harden, there was Jeremy Lin. Remember that. Lin himself sure does. While at the “Dream Big, Be Yourself” youth conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Lin admitted that he believed he was going to be tasked with saving the Houston Rockets, according to The Gospel Herald’s Lauren Leigh Noske: I was ready to [...]
August 21, 2013
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Would it be rude to say “its about time”? Probably, but we’ll say it anyway. Its about damn time ‘Bron. We support guys dancing to the beat of their own drum and all, but at some point Lebron needed to listen to all the hecklers and realize his hairline was receding out of control and [...]
August 21, 2013
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I think everyone knows Kobe Bryant’s former Lakers teammate Ronny Turiaf is a jokester. He’s one of the good guys of the NBA. Light hearted and fun, but don’t get me wrong, plays with a ton of passion on the court. Check out this latest YouTube spoof by Turiaf poking fun at his old teammate’s [...]
August 21, 2013
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