With the Indiana Pacers facing elimination in the 2025 NBA Finals, Tyrese Haliburton’s health has emerged as the central concern ahead of Game 6. The All-Star guard is scheduled to undergo an MRI on a right calf strain after aggravating the injury during Monday’s 120-109 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. The result dropped Indiana...
‘It’s not over’: Myles Turner expects Indiana Pacers to respond in NBA Finals’ Game 6
OKLAHOMA CITY – With a booming voice and leadership that late Indiana Pacers star Mel Daniels would be proud of, Pacers center Myles Turner yelled several times to teammates as they walked to the visiting locker room defeated on Monday night. “It’s a series, brother. It’s a series,” Turner belted. Turner and his Pacers lost...
A New Era Of NBA Fathers Supplies The Headlines
The public role of an NBA superstar’s father is one aspect of the sport that has significantly evolved in recent years. In the old days, you never really knew too much about the parental figures of first-generation stars. Sure, you may have known that Lew Alcindor Sr. was a jazz musician turned police officer, or...
How ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ and 1990s Black television made the Air Jordan 5 ‘Grape’ legendary
One day after the calendar officially flips to summer, sneakerheads of a certain age will pray that their god of choice blesses them with a pair of the Air Jordan 5 “Grape.” June 21 marks the first time Jordan Brand has released the colorway in OG form since 2013. The 2025 model improves on the...
Dwight Howard & Lance Stephenson Get Into HUGE FIGHT at The Big 3
Tensions ERUPT at the BIG3 Opener! Former NBA stars Dwight Howard and Lance Stephenson got into a heated brawl during the Miami vs. Los Angeles showdown, resulting in both being EJECTED! It all started with a hard elbow to the chest, and quickly escalated into shoves, fists, and chaos that spilled into the media zone...
NBPA Top 100 Camp: Top Guards!
June is a time for camp basketball and the NCAA June Scholastic Live period. The most anticipated individual camp, outside of the USA Basketball mini-camps and tryouts is the NBPA Top 100 Camp. College Coaches and NBA Teams are certified to view players over the course of three days. Now in its 31st year, this...
Louisville’s run to Men’s College World Series in part due to Black baseball pipeline
OMAHA, Neb. — Not all double plays are turned equally. When the Louisville Cardinals’ battery adroitly pulled off a successful 1-2-3 double play in the top of the sixth inning at Jim Patterson Stadium last week, complete with a fantastic stretch at first base to snuff out a bases-loaded situation and end the frame while...
Is the Face of the League Discussion Dead? Does OKC have the Loudest NBA Crowd with Esfandiar Baraheni-Hoopsology Podcast
In this edition of Hoopsology, Allan, Justin, and Matt chat with The Athletic’s NBA Daily Esfandiar Baraheni about whether the Oklahoma City Thunder has the loudest crowd in the NBA. Then Es chats about the future of NBA media, fan engagement, and the impact of small markets like OKC and Indiana in the NBA Finals....
Sly Stone’s joyful sound is still the soundtrack to our lives
When it came to the mundane formalities of everyday life, multi-hyphenated music giant Sly Stone made the pedestrian defiantly joyful. Even his answering machine greeting opened with his trademark irrepressible, eye-winking wit: “You called. Or did you? We’ll call back.” Yet Stone, who died Tuesday June 9 in Los Angeles at 82, was more than...
Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam has eyes of Africa on him during NBA Finals
INDIANAPOLIS – Pascal Siakam brought the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy to the Giants of Africa basketball camp in Yaoundé, Cameroon, after winning an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019. The Cameroon native’s hope was to inspire the next generation of African basketball players. One camper who was inspired was a then-15-year-old named Yves...









