There is one weekend in the year when the basketball world comes together, celebrates their best players, most spectacular dunkers and most accurate shooters and sets their eyes on one single game. The NBA All-Star Game. For this game people forget allegiance to their home team, they stop booing players from their division rivals and […]
This is a list about the best basketball movies. No wait, let me rephrase that. This is a list about my favorite basketball movies. It’s not a scientific work based on proof, facts or even logic. It is merely a collection of my favorite movies which happen to have basketball in them, so please don’t […]
Let me get this straight right off the bat. I’m a die-hard Laker fan, but I never really liked Kobe Bryant. If you don’t think that’s possible, think again. I know a lot of Laker fans who have always been critical of the Black Mamba, especially the ones who already bled purple and gold when Kobe […]
While being a long standing tradition in the United States, Black Friday steadily found its way into European culture in recent years. “The Day After Thanksgiving” has been used as a bridge day by many American families to get the gift shopping done a good time ahead of the holidays, taking advantage of promotional sales […]
What started out as a perceived Knicks nightmare might turn out not to be so bad after all. That’s because after being booed mercilessly by Knicks fans at the 2015 NBA Draft, which took place in New York at MSG, Kristaps Porzingis is proving his doubters wrong. Although it is still early in the season, […]
Like no other movie “Back to the Future” sparked fantasies of time travel, meeting your parents and getting things right on the second try -which is technically the first try- and of course what to do when your teenage mom has a major crush on you. Today on Back to the Future day we salute this movie […]
Who doesn’t remember that iconic moment when MJ had a cameo in the other MJ’s music video?! The year was 1993 and Jackson’s hit single ‘Jam’ was nominated for Best Choreography at the MTV Video Music Awards. All in part due to Jordan’s swift dance moves and Jackson’s superior ball handling skills, of course. Not […]
Now that the Golden State Warriors have won the NBA championship we can finally admit it. We wanted them to win it. It has nothing to do with being anti-Cleveland, anti-Eastern-Conference or even anti-LeBron. This is not a conspiracy. We know there are tons of LeBron James fans out there (some of them in our […]
Streetball is passion. Though it is not always beautiful, one could easily call it streetart. It is a rough sport for tough men which does not allow much of weakness. Streetball means competition including embarassement and sometimes even humiliation of opponents. However, it is a basis for friendships because there is one basic ingredient that connects […]
There is this guy in our office who all of a sudden is a Cleveland Cavaliers fan… You know the type. Someone you have known for years but has never admitted allegiance to any NBA franchise, yet suddenly is a fan of one of the best teams in the NBA. “What?! Since when do you like […]
