Kenny Smith cut through the noise with the kind of perspective few people can honestly claim. In college, he shared a locker room with Michael Jordan at North Carolina. In …
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24 years ago today, Allen Iverson was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the 2000-01 season, at 6-foot and 165 pounds becoming the shortest and lightest MVP in league …
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The Lakers’ game-ball controversy was already a strange little window into the politics of greatness. Then Gilbert Arenas got involved, and the whole thing became something louder, funnier and far …
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For years, Tyler Herro has lived in Miami as both player and trade package, both scorer and salary slot, both beloved Heat success story and the first name dragged into …
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There are playoff games that are won, and then there are playoff games that feel like a message carved into stone. Game 5 in San Antonio was the latter. The …
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Shaquille O’Neal has never been interested in doing anything small. Not his game, not his personality, not his business ideas, and certainly not his dunks. So naturally, when Shaq decided …
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Brandon Clarke, the Memphis Grizzlies forward whose game was built on spring, timing and quiet force, has died at the age of 29. The Grizzlies, the NBA and Clarke’s agency …
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Four of the greatest players of the 1980s were conspired to go to the four biggest NBA markets in America to help increase the popularity of the league. Magic Johnson, …
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Adam Silver may be the commissioner of a league valued in the hundreds of billions, but apparently he also has the same bad habit as everyone else who loves basketball: …
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31 Years Ago Today, Michael Jordan’s Bulls Made Cable History In Win Over Magic
On May 10, 1995, the NBA did not just get a playoff game. It got a television event wearing black sneakers and a No. 23 jersey again. Chicago’s 104-94 road …
