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The Tinley children are on Fall Break, so we’re spending the week vacationing on Perdido Key. I was without Internet access until yesterday, when I successfully guessed the password for a wireless router in a neighboring condo. A word of advice: If you’re in Florida and your wireless password is “sunshine,” you’re inviting anyone who can pick up your signal to use your Internet. Anyway, here are some things we learned this week.
Captain America came out in theaters on Friday, and it got me thinking: if I had to choose my sports version of Captain America, who would I pick?
Jon Washburn further breaks down his controversial selection of Kobe Bryant over Michael Jordan on his Top 20 NBA Players of All-Time list. And then we ask you: who is first on your list?
Keeping with our recent theme, this post details the thoughts of Jon Washburnon the top 20 NBA players ever. Dr. Twitch has the most unique top 3 of anyone who submitted a list, which is why we asked him to provide a detailed description of his top 20. And boy did he. Enjoy.
Evan Schwartz analyzes the NBA during his lifetime and comes up with his list of the 20 ballers he’s had the joy to watch play.
Shaquille O’Neal retired today, and he did it in his own unique, unexpected way. He tweeted it. Really, it was the only appropriate way for a true on-court original and off-court sports/entertainment pioneer like Shaq to go out.
It is now official: Mike Brown will be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Many are surprised by Brown’s hiring, but his career accolades prove that he is worthy.
There is a good chance you have seen this by now, but I’ll post anyway for those who have not. I discussed it when Kobe Bryant’s unfortunate use a gay slur was caught on TV, so it’s only fair to give similar treatment to Joakim Noah’s similarly unfortunate use of the same slur.
After checking the popularity of hils children’s names, Josh Tinley decided to analyze data from the SSA to look into the names of popular athletes in an effort to see how many people were naming their children after popular sports stars.
With the Lakers having been swept by the Dallas Mavericks, they lose more than just a shot at a three-peat. Their current dynasty is effectively over. But they have delivered an era of basketball that should not be forgotten.
The Los Angeles Lakers will look to avoid elimination today against the Mavericks, and as everyone knows no team in NBA Playoff history has ever come back from this deficit. It will eventually be done, and the Lakers could be the first.
In today’s edition, Shakira stops by to say hi, Joe Posnanski gives Roger Goodell the smack down, I inform you of the coolest town in Massachusetts, and Kobe Bryant reminds us all of Kobe Bryant.
Now that the Playoffs are underway and everyone’s paying attention to the NBA, Josh Tinley is posing this question: Which active players, if their career were to end tomorrow, would be deserving of election to the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Sunday was a bizarre day in the NBA. The bizarre happenings had to do with the outcomes of the games involving the top 2 seeds in the Western Conference, as both the Spurs and the Lakers lost the opening games.
With the NBA playoffs looming, what can we expect from the NBA’s elite? Has Derrick Rose locked in the MVP? Are the Celtics and Heat ready to play their best in the playoffs? Devon’s got all that, and more!
