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Tag Archives: Basketball

Basketball is a five-on-five team sport featuring practitioners trying to put a ball in a basket. While not a common topic, NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell is an NBA historian.

June 27, 2023
27
Jun 2023

1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft

The strange story of how a poorly thought out 1997 trade by a 14-68 team for a 35-year old power forward led to said team losing the #2 pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.
June 26, 2023
26
Jun 2023

Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?

In a 20-year retrospective, I offer my opinion on whether the Detroit Pistons should have drafted Carmelo Anthony with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.
June 14, 2023
14
Jun 2023

ESPN States Tim Duncan was “Born Overseas”

Was an NBA player who was born in an overseas U.S. territory born “overseas” as the word is commonly understood?
December 21, 2022
21
Dec 2022

Balancing Bear Topiary in Carroll Gardens

Walking bear? I vote BALANCING bear.
December 7, 2022
7
Dec 2022

1892 Report on Women’s Basketball Game

Where we discover that early basket ball was sometimes uncomfortably close to football.
December 6, 2022
6
Dec 2022

1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball

The first basketball game was played in 1891. Let’s see some original newspaper articles about the “new” sport from 1892.
August 14, 2022
14
Aug 2022

Crossing Guard Adrian Dantley on the BlackBerry

An NBA Hall of Famer moonlighting as a crossing guard is only the set-up for this musing.
April 20, 2021
20
Apr 2021

The Misuse of Impeachment and Roy Hibbert’s Jersey

〜Bringing together topics in ways no one else can〜
April 15, 2021
15
Apr 2021

Playing Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert’s NBA Story

On the brief NBA career of Shawn Respert – who secretly played through treatment for stomach cancer
March 30, 2021
30
Mar 2021

On Oscar De La Hoya’s Comeback From Retirement

〜Before coming out of retirement, consider why you retired in the first place〜