Category: NBA
Culture of Hoops
NBA2K14 Reveal - LeBron James and Video Game James
Off the bounce, NBA2K14 will be played for hours at my house when it's released. I may even try to break my personal record of 30 hours of straight gameplay. Hmm, no wonder I'm obese....
Culture of Hoops
Heart Of New York: Meditations On J.R. Smith
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . J.R. Smith is the New York Knicks. Not in the way Michael Jordan was the Chicago Bulls or Johnny Carson was late night television, but in the sense that...
Culture of Hoops
Carmelo Anthony Really Loves to Shoot the Basketball
Carmelo Anthony definitely raised his level of play this past regular season and it kind of transitioned in the NBA playoffs. I say "kind of" because Melo seemed to play like his former self, taking...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Finals - Game 1: San Antonio Spurs will a victory ... and I still hate LeBron James
I don't want LeBron James and the Miami Heat to lose every single game. I just don't want them to win when it counts the most. And I feel great after seeing the Heat burn...
Culture of Hoops
Baselines vs. Bass Lines
Hoops and hip-hop merged together as a unified cultural phenomenon around the world in the last couple of decades. The video below is a tribute to the two cultures merging as one, extracting hip-hop lyrics...
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Tony Parker's INCREDIBLE Buzzer-Beater in Slow Motion
When Tony Parker made his move to the basket, it wasn't enough for him to just almost lose the ball three times. He then proceeded to trip himself up and fall to the hardwood. Not...
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NBA Finals: Mad Men Style
With the NBA Finals upon us, writers, bloggers, and sometimes-writers are scrambling for unique angles from which to approach the series. Me? I'm where I always am: Half-reclined on a secondhand couch with some carbohydrate-and-cheese...
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Toronto Raptors name change?
Tim Leiweke, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment’s new president and CEO, hinted that the Toronto Raptors could follow the trend of the New Orleans Pelicans and (most likely soon-to-be) Charlotte Hornets by changing the team's...
Culture of Hoops
Jeremy Lin as James Harden and Chandler Parsons
Jeremy Lin, you are quite the funny person, aren't you? Actually, he is, as Lin did pretend to be some other person's " new son ." Accessible? Check out Lin and Golden State Warriors All-Star...
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LeBron James is the most underpaid athlete
LeBron James is every single positive adjective you could think of when you objectively think about basketball. Please notice the italicized "objectively." Yes, haters are going to hate, but when you think about it, empirically,...
