Teletovic helps Nets hand Heat first playoff loss
After Mirza Teletovic scored a team-high 20 points in Brooklyn’s 94-82 loss to Miami in Game 2 of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series, I wrote that the Bosnian Muslim […]
Teletovic gives Brooklyn its best chance to beat the Heat
The Miami Heat are running through the NBA playoffs like the Kool-Aid Man running through a brick wall, sweeping Charlotte in the first round and taking the first two games […]
How Tariq Abdul-Wahad changed Doc Rivers as a coach
In an article for USA TODAY titled “For NBA teams, religion can be unifying or divisive,” author Sam Amick explores the dynamics of faith in pro basketball, primarily through the […]
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Has Mesut Ozil got his magic back? https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/mesut-ozil-got-magic-back-114541909.html So much has been written about the struggles of Arsenal and its star midfielder Mesut Ozil this season, you’d think the team […]
Larry Johnson wants an all-Black basketball league
While the NBA’s community of Black players, coaches, executives, employees and fans can consider it a victory — or at least a step in the right direction — that the […]
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Hedo Turkoglu, Clippers silently protest owner’s racism http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/clippers-protest-owners-alleged-racist-remarks/story?id=23491099 In response to racist comments made recently by team owner Donald Sterling, every player on the Los Angeles Clippers — including Turkish […]
Among other things, Donald Sterling needs Islam
Over the next few days, weeks, months — however long it takes NBA commissioner Adam Silver to rid his league of the stain that is racist Los Angeles Clippers owner […]
Report: Real Madrid ready to sell Karim Benzema
If, as an American sports fan, you think NBA and MLB offseason player movement is full of drama and intrigue, you should know that our leagues have nothing on international […]
Video: Abdur-Rahim goes off on LeBron’s team
The most intriguing story of the opening day of the NBA playoffs was the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 seed, the Atlanta Hawks — the worst team, record-wise, in the entire […]
Video: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s most underrated game
I don’t know how he did it, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar managed to become both the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and the most underrated player in NBA history. You don’t think […]
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