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Best of the (basketball) net: Happy Birthday, Charles edition
Ball in Europe will be rounding up this weekend’s European cup action tomorrow, but for today here are a handful of stories from the interwebs this week about every other subject in a seven-day span spent mostly between deprogramming from NBA All-Star Weekend and preparing for the Copa del Rey. • The best post of […]
Best of the (Basketball) Net: Happy Valentine's Day edition
This week’s “Best of the (Basketball) Net” is a serious grab bag of articles and clips brought to you by hoops-centric websites aplenty this week. Read on to check out terrible free throws, ridiculous dunks, so-so three-point shooting, and Spanish rockabilly, and have a good Valentine’s Day!
Stateside, LeBrown, Dwight, Sir Charles sneak into Super Bowl broadcast
Last night across the Atlantic, most sports fans in the ‘States were tuned into that little game of American football known as the Super Bowl (presumably after watching the EuroRaptors and Orlando Magic take care of business in the afternoon, that is). For years, mucho hype has surrounded the mystique of the commercials shown during […]
Revisiting USA-Croatia 1992 (or, Why YouTube is God, part 1 of many)
Reports last week that the Basketball Hall of Fame would be moving up the 2010 induction ceremony, so as to avoid conflict with the FIBA World Championship tournament and thus focus the hoops universe’s full attention on the 1992 USA Olympic team enshrinement, got me to reminiscing about that seminal game in basketball history: The […]
Best of the (Basketball) Net: Returned from Vacation edition
A few good reads for you to catch up with this weekend as the “Best of the (Basketball) Net” column returns. Enjoy the hits from around the ‘net! Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Tyler (Remember him? The “the first American to skip his senior year of high school to turn pro”?) is struggling even to earn playing time […]
Pau Gasol's Fave 5
NBA Playoff time! Which means I am turning on my (OK, OK, Michelle, it’s not mine) Slingbox to watch some NBA action. Just no – the Lakers are playing the Jazz and up to this point are really killing them. During halftime, Pau Gasol was asked about his five favorite international players. He wanted to […]