Whether you are a basketball fan or not, Shaqtin a Fool is almost guaranteed to put a smile on your face. After all what is funnier than watching multi millionaire super athletes falling on their faces or playing like they forgot how to basketball? These are all the Shaqtin A Fool episodes for the season […]
Last weekend, New Orleans was once again venue for yet another great NBA All-Star weekend. While Jason “White Chocolate” Williams and Baron Davis showed the audience in the NBA Celebrity Game that they still know how to ball, the NBA youngsters had quite some impressive skills to offer as well. In Friday night’s BBVA Compass […]
The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has always been one of the fan favorites of the All-Star Weekend. Many contestants have stand their ground throughout the years – some have failed, others have made the NBA history books with their mind-blowing dunks. While the legend of His Airness dominated the 1990s, new talents have stepped on court and […]
Get the beer bottle open and the popcorn ready, the NBA All-Star Weekend is around the corner. This year‘s festivities have not been short of story lines leading up to the 66th edition of the game of the game. Change of location? Russell Westbeast not in the starting five lineup? Zaza Pachulia as a starter […]
I remember it as if it was yesterday. 1997. NBA Playoffs. Best of 5. It’s the Florida duel. The Orlando Magic take on the Miami Heat in the first round. I’m 10 years old. I’m wearing my Penny jersey with the shoes to match, the Nike Air Penny II. There he is, my hero, Anfernee […]
Former D-League and International Professional Basketball player Brandon Armstrong has quickly become an internet phenom. His hilarious impersonations of NBA players’ signature moves are spot on, earning praise even from the NBA stars themselves and have gone viral on youtube with millions of views. Here is a collection of all NBA players impersonations done by […]
Stephen Curry keeps on surprising. Take last season for instance. Steph Curry not only shattered (his own) NBA records for threes made (402) and attempted (886), but gleamed with a 45.4% shooting percentage. Even more amazingly, 55.4% of his field goal attempts were from behind the arc. Then this season, on November 18, following an […]
The Los Angeles Lakers have one of the best young talents in the NBA: Brandon Ingram. Only 19 years old, he has a long way to go, but the first steps he is taking are pretty promising. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft has often been compared to Kevin Durant in […]
Every decade has its superstars, but not every superstar is worth mentioning these days. Every decade has its stories, but some stories are not worth recapitulating. Every decade has its games, but other matches have passed them in greatness and craziness. Thus, we decided to create a timeline for you. From the 60s to lost […]
After 18 years in the NBA Ray Allen has retired. This is my goodbye. I met Ray just after his rookie season at a Nike Hoop Camp in Barcelona in 1997. As a young journalist for the largest German basketball magazine I got to interview both him and Kobe Bryant in the same summer just […]
