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Celebrating 2024 with the best players to ever wear 24Happy New Year! We’re on to ‘24. Years have become synonymous with athletes and their jersey numbers recently (ask any 23-year-old how their “Jordan Year” is going). In honor of the trend, here are the greatest athletes to ever wear No. 24....

Chet Holmgren and Victor Wembanyama are finishing what Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic startedIf there’s anything the most recent NBA champions taught us, it’s that the center can still be the focal point of an offense. Sixty-six-million years ago, Michael Jordan’s arrival was a terraforming meteor that ended the age of the pivots and began the reign of guards. Prior to His Airness, NBA cham...

Yes, Nets got swept, but Kevin Durant still has time for Barkley and everyone that has something to say about itIf nothing else, you have to respect Kevin Durant for staying on brand at all times. The Brooklyn Nets completed one of the most disappointing seasons of all time by being swept in the first round by the Boston Celtics, and being the first team eliminated from the 2022 NBA Playoffs. Their experiment...

Winning Time: ‘Piece of a Man’ explores Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s relationship with Islam

What makes Winning Time’s tapestry of stories enthralling is how it reflects the chaotic jazz of our lives. Every character is at odds against the world and themselves. Magic, Jerry Buss, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, each man is fighting a private war. For many of them, it’s a war of the spirit against the ...

If Giannis wins his third MVP this year we can put the best player on the planet debate to rest

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo can join some elite company, should he take home his third NBA MVP award at the end of the regular season. If he can edge out Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokić, we can finally lay the best player in the world debate to rest. We can’t continue to deny Antetoko...

Fictional Hooper Bracket: Hickory Region - Round 2

An overweight out-of-work actor who didn’t make a bucket on screen, a cartoon grade school kid, and Urkel all prevailed in the Hickory Region, meaning the 11, 13, and 14 seeds came up Milhouse in an upset-riddled round. Now, Urkel and Recess’ Vince LaSalle face off to go to the Sweet 16....

Even when Michael Jordan turns 75, there will still be no athlete that stops a room like him

Michael Jordan turned 59 years old last week, hasn’t played professional basketball since 2003, hit that game-winning shot against the Utah Jazz nearly 25 years ago, and the NBA still belongs to him....

Centers aren’t extinct, they’ve just evolved

As humans, we tend to eulogize the extinct with reverence. The Dodo Bird. The Rocky Mountain Locust. The Golden Toad. And why wouldn’t we? It was us who eradicated these precious, sentient creatures. Some theorists would argue it had to do with their inability to adapt. But what if things are adapti...

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Dominique Wilkins is owed an apology and the only asterisk I’ll accept in sports

Dominique Wilkins is owed apologies from a lot of you people. ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Thu Oct 14 2021

Hey, NCAA: Let J.R. Smith play college golf already!

J.R. Smith never played college basketball. He jumped straight from high school to the NBA. Now that his NBA career is over, he’s making an effort to get a college degree. Smith will be attending North Carolina A&T — the largest HBCU in the nation, with just over 12,700 students — which consistently...

by Jon Hoefling|

|Thu Aug 12 2021

Carmelo Anthony deserves this moment in the sun as an all-time Top 10 NBA scorer

Let’s take some time to give a legend their flowers....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Tue May 04 2021

Tanks a lot! Rockets going from 44-28 to 11-28 is putrid, but not most historic NBA drop-off ever

On Feb. 4, the Rockets went to Memphis and beat the Grizzlies by 12 points for their seventh win in eight games, moving to 11-10 for the season. Certainly, Houston was outperforming expectations after trading away James Harden, but nobody knew how bad things were about to get....

by Jesse Spector|

|Thu Mar 18 2021

Not even Philly fans deserve to lose Joel Embiid for more than two weeks

Sigh. ...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Sat Mar 13 2021

Daryl Morey calls Joel Embiid ‘the most unstoppable thing I’ve ever seen,’ which begs the question: Is he?

Philadelphia 76ers general manager Daryl Morey sat down with Sports Illustrated NBA Senior Writer Howard Beck for a recent si.com story. Within the interview, Morey knowingly referred to Sixers star center Joel Embiid, as in, not James Harden, as the most impregnable offensive force he’s seen....

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Tue Mar 09 2021

The Sixers continue to show a different gear in win over Jazz

In a COVID-riddled season especially, it’s still too early for definitive NBA Finals ride-or-die predictions that aren’t stupid or clout-chasey. That said, the Philadelphia 76ers proved something last night by taking the team with the NBA’s best record (how much longer will we say this about the Uta...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Thu Mar 04 2021

Moses Malone Jr. Says He Was Robbed And Beaten For Criticizing James Harden

Moses Malone Jr., son of NBA legend Moses Malone, was beaten and robbed outside of a nightclub in Houston, Tex. last month. Right after the incident, Malone Jr. told a local ABC reporter that the attack was in retaliation for a Facebook post Malone Jr. had written that was critical of Houston Rocket...

by Tom Ley|

|Thu Jul 21 2016

Charles Barkley played two seasons with Moses Malone, and has always said it was Malone who convinced him he was “fat and lazy,” and had to take his career more seriously. Here’s his statement, from NBA.com, on Malone’s death this morning: ...

by Kyle Wagner|

|Sun Sep 13 2015

Moses Malone Is Dead At 60

Moses Malone died in his sleep early this morning in Norfolk, VA. He was 60. ...

by Kyle Wagner|

|Sun Sep 13 2015

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