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The NBA’s newest award is a better fit for MLB teamsIt’s bad enough that there have been 16 NBA playoff spots since 1984. At that time there were only 23 teams in the league. It’s 2022, and still more than half of the league gets into the playoffs, and that’s not even counting the highly entertaining Play-in Tournament. Sure the New Orleans Pelicans ...

The Harlem Globetrotters want an NBA franchise ‘right now’The NBA is thinking about expanding. The likely destinations? Seattle and Las Vegas. Both make sense for a myriad of reasons. Seattle, once home to the SuperSonics, has been without an NBA franchise since 2008, and just got its first NHL team, the Kraken. Vegas, meanwhile, is a growing haven for pro...

Earl Lloyd, the first black man to play in the NBA, has passed away at the age of 86. Yahoo wrote a very nice profile of Lloyd in 2009. [WXYZ]...

Only The Ball Was Brown

From his website, here's David Kamp's 2006 GQ story on Early Lloyd:...