Jordan’s recent activity — including public statements against institutional racism and managing player-owner relations during the bubble boycott — is a reconciliation of sorts with his voluntary exclusion from socio-political affairs in the past.
By boycotting its playoff game Wednesday in protest of the indefensible shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin and the perpetuation of police brutality, the Milwaukee Bucks made the kind of statement that sanctioned social slogans and conspicuous court embossing couldn’t.
Those of us who live beyond the jurisdiction of Adam Silver’s invisible sphere of sanctuary do so cautiously as the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to lurk throughout our nation in similar obscurity but with much different test results.
The NBA’s plans to bring the game back has a lot going for it, but the risk of perpetuating another Covid-19 breakout looms large.
Stern was such a force on the game of basketball, his three decade reign as NBA commissioner placed the league as one of the most secure and profitable entities in world wide sports.
The “6” is lit and the Toronto Raptors are shining for all of North America to see. Drake’s Raptors officially grew up from baby dinosaurs to the baddest predators in […]
Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook seems to always have bad blood when it comes to fan interactions when on the road in the NBA, especially in Utah.
During the NBA All-Star weekend an interesting report emerged from ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne stating that a confidant of an NFL owner had reached out to NBA commissioner Adam Silver about […]
Since top tier college programs are already illegally paying athletes to attend their schools, why not use the G-League for them to keep payments above board while allowing the young talents to play against professional competition and get paid within the process?
Ed. note: Certainly, one of the best moments in the crazy swirl of media attention created by Donald Sterling was seeing our guy “Scoop B” Brandon Robinson step to the […]
