I just can’t do it. Bo Jackson’s “knowledge” has been marketed and mythologized for decades, and gonging that popular phrase, again, would further dilute something that deserves to remain simple and sweet.
It’s hard enough for Jackson to be Jackson. The man was so captivating in the 80s and 90s that he became a cross-training abstraction; an impossibly perfect body, bound in our minds to his shoulder pads and baseball bat, until his body broke. Now he exists for most people as a frozen, unfulfilled hypothetical from 1991. But before that infamous Bengals game when the hip…man. If you don’t know, you better ask Google. Read More »
It’s not every day that you get Hakeem Olajuwon, one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to work you out, but that’s exactly what happened this past weekend in Houston for Kobe Bryant and Hasheem Thabeet. Check out the Hall of Fame center – who Kobe said is “the best (at the) mid-post and post move” – helping the guys out in the paint.
Yesterday on HighSchoolHoop.com we posted our recap and video of the next-level performance training session that the Boost Mobile Elite 24 athletes went through the day before the Elite 24 game.
The 45-minute session was run by Denver Nuggets strength and condition coach/Under Armour TNP Performance Training Council member/Dime contributor Steve Hess (pictured here giving Montrose Christian’s Terrence Ross hell in one of the session’s drills). Read More »
In every issue of Dime, we run a feature called “The Baller’s Blueprint,” where we get up with different NBA players and have them break down their signature moves and skills. Yesterday we ran with Rajon Rondo’s Baller’s Blueprint on his fake behind-the-back pass – a move that seemed to earn a ton of hate from readers. So today we wanted to come back with another Baller’s Blueprint from the Blake Griffin issue. This one features Ben Gordon breaking down the patented step-back J that he’s hoping will earn him serious loot on the free agent market …
“Most of the time I’m looking at creating contact with my defender. Maybe if I can’t get around him, I’ll look to try and create contact with my shoulder or my body and kinda get him off balance and step back.
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In every issue of Dime, we run a feature called “The Baller’s Blueprint,” where we get up with different NBA players and have them break down their signature moves and skills. In the Blake Griffin issue, we had Rajon Rondo break down how he leaves defenders shook on the break …
“I like to use that fake behind-the-back pass either in transition, or when I have a wide open lane within the offense.
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In every issue of Dime, we get up with NBA players to have them break down their go-to moves for our readers. The following Baller’s Blueprint with Caron Butler is pulled from the current jam-packed issue of the magazine, on newsstands now.
Caron Butler
6-7, 228 lbs., Forward, Washington Wizards
My Money Move: The Step-Back J
“My money move is always, you know, my isolation out by the logo. Jab-step, pull-up J. That’s what I go to all the time. Read More »
In every issue of Dime, we run a feature called “The Baller’s Blueprint,” where we get up with different NBA players and have them break down their signature moves and skills.
