Kevin Durant to the Warriors. Dwyane Wade to the Bulls. Kobe Bryant retiring. Tim Duncan retiring. That is the 2016 NBA offseason in a nutshell. As the season begins this week, I can’t help but feel like this one is going to be different from previous seasons. One of the NBA’s most well-liked and well-respected players, Durant, jumped ship from […]
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Jen Welter has started a revolution that is sweeping across men’s sports With backsides glued to couches and tailgates taking place every weekend, there is no doubt that football season is back in full swing. But heading into the 2015 NFL preseason, the Arizona Cardinals’ sideline looked different than it had ever before. The big and burly men of the […]
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Earlier this week, NBA players, coaches and fans alike feared they had lost another great one when retired NBA player Lamar Odom was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel. Local law enforcement reported the former NBA star was found with drugs on him and in his system. Initially in a coma, he is now awake and somewhat responsive, according to […]
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Tichenor reflects on the ways the NBA has progressed through the years Nostalgia is a powerful thing. Prior generations love to get all poetic about how their era was better than today’s. Beside maybe eating oatmeal and reading the newspaper, telling “kids” how things used to be so much better is 40-somethings’ and 50-somethings’ favorite thing to do. Specifically, basketball […]
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This is officially ridiculous. It has been officially ridiculous for a while now, actually. The NBA playoffs are about the start and two teams with winning records will be sitting at home watching three teams with losing records play instead. I know we live in a world where someone named Snooki was famous once, but that still does not make […]
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The Most Valuable Player (MVP) award has always meant more in the NBA than in all other American professional sports. Baseball essentially has four MVPs per season (American League and National MVP and Cy Young awards). Wayne Gretzky might still be getting the Hart Trophy (the NHL’s MVP award) every year. And football gave an MVP to a kicker one […]
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Revenge of the nerds — this is what NBA legend Charles Barkley thinks is happening to the NBA. On “Inside the NBA,” the studio pregame and postgame show that accompanies TNT’s NBA broadcasts, Barkley had some interesting things to say about the use of statistics and analytics in basketball. “I’ve always believed analytics is crap,” Barkley said. “It’s just some […]
Read more1. Kobe Bryant will shoot a lot of basketballs. Make no mistake, the Lakers are going to be bad. Really bad. Like, Wesley-Johnson-is-penciled-into-the-starting-lineup bad. As unlikely as it may be, Bryant is still eyeing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record and is sitting about three high-scoring seasons away from approaching it. When the Lakers are heading into the All-Star break with […]
Read moreThe art of the flop has taken the NBA by storm over the past few seasons, led by reigning MVP LeBron James Miami Heat forward LeBron James is lightly bumped by Indiana Pacers forward David West during the NBA playoffs last season, so James and West both do the natural thing anyone in their right mind would do — wave […]
Read moreLet the athletes, not the NBA, decide their fate Derrick Battle – The last player to be drafted out of high school to the NBA was Toronto Raptors forward Amir Johnson in 2005. Since then, the NBA has said that players must be one year removed from high school or be at least 19 years old during the year of […]
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