NBA /
Aug 4, 2011 / 4:30 pm
By Sean Sweeney
In light of seeing all of these former NBA stars getting into trouble, I’ve been thinking about a whole lot, about untapped potential (hence my repeated posts on Penny & G-Hill & ‘Mac) and about why some guys make it and others don’t. It’s more than talent. Much more.
It’s always so hard to judge someone from afar. You grow up believing most of the stories you hear, thinking “oh this dude’s a bad guy…this guy is cool, but sometimes he doesn’t care…this guy can’t play.” But eventually, you find out that most of the stuff you hear is untrue. Read More »
Tags: Bryce Drew, Courtney Alexander, Ed O'Bannon, feature, John Wallace, Kedrick Brown, Marcus Fizer, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Shawn Respert, Troy Bell, William Avery
18 Comments » | Posted in NBA |
By Aron Phillips
Yesterday was my 25th birthday. I know, kinda crazy. So with the National Championship game last night, I figured I’d look back at the past 25 years of the Big Dance. At the end of the Final Four, the Associated Press always selects a Most Outstanding Player (last night being Duke’s Kyle Singler). The MOP need not be a member of the Championship team, but they almost always are. In fact, the last player to win the award in a losing effort was Hakeem Olajuwon back in 1983. But not everyone goes on to have a career like The Dream. With that in mind, I’ve tracked down the MOPs of the past 25 years… Read More »
Tags: Anderson Hunt, Bobby Hurley, carmelo anthony, Christian Laettner, Corey Brewer, Corliss Williamson, Danny Manning, Donald Williams, Ed O'Bannon, Ed Pinckney, Emeka Okafor, Glen Rice, Hakeem Olajuwon, Jeff Sheppard, joakim noah, Juan Dixon, Keith Smart, Kyle Singler, Mario Chalmers, Mateen Cleaves, Miles Simon, Pervis Ellison, Richard Hamilton, Sean May, Shane Battier, Tony Delk, Wayne Ellington
16 Comments » | Posted in College, NBA, Where Are They Now? |
Smack /
Jul 22, 2009 / 4:47 am
By Dime Magazine
Does anybody want to play for Team USA anymore? The list of guys who have dropped out of this year’s USA Basketball mini-camp (which starts tomorrow) was already getting long — Brandon Roy, David Lee, David West, Big Baby Davis, Andrew Bynum and LaMarcus Aldridge among them — and then yesterday a couple more confirmed they won’t be participating: Read More »
Tags: Andre Miller, Anthony Randolph, Big Baby Davis, Bill Walton, Brandon Roy, Brook Lopez, Carlos Boozer, Christian Laettner, danny granger, David Lee, David West, Ed O'Bannon, Greg Oden, Jerryd Bayless, LaMarcus Aldridge, Sean May, Shawn Kemp, Troy Hudson, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Zydrunas Ilgauskas
25 Comments » | Posted in Smack |