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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In this edition of Hoopsology, Justin and Matt are joined by WNBA journalist Karli Bell and the host of Courtside with Karli Bell. Karli gives her early impressions of the WNBA season, which teams are impressing her so far, why the upcoming WNBA CBA negotiations are the most important, and how other women’s basketball leagues,...
INDIANAPOLIS – “La, la, la, la. Wait ’til I get my money right. “La, la, la la. Then you can’t tell me nothing, right? “Excuse me, was you saying something? “Uh-uh, you can’t tell me nothing.” Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin walked into the locker room late Wednesday night with rapper Kanye West’s 2007 song...