Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh will be title contenders for years. Before that, it was Wade and Shaquille O’Neal who gave Miami its first championship. A decade earlier, Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway were the duo that put the Heat on the map. In their short span of existence, the Miami Heat organization […]

LeBron James and I were born 89 days apart. It’s fair to say we started playing basketball at the same time, too, and despite the fact that I peaked in high school as the captain of my junior team and LeBron was the most highly-praised high school talent in the history of the game, like […]

With the NBA Draft set for this Thursday, the combine long gone and player workouts practically over, it becomes increasingly obvious that impressions have begun to take form. It’s an NBA mock draft fan’s dream. At this stage we know who the top prospects are, so all that is left to be determined is how […]

Say what you want about adolescence, at least it’s memorable. At least the idols and icons you admired back then, during the unnerving transition years of youth, still hold a significant place in your heart today. I’m not necessarily saying that our heroes of yesterday remain the people we look up to in adulthood – […]

It’s easier to admit if we say it together: We’re all more familiar with the 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks than we ought to be, from DeShawn Stevenson’s Adam’s apple to Brian Cardinal’s calves. Believe it or not, there once was a time when we were similarly obsessed with the 2005-06 Dallas Mavericks. And the 2005-06 Miami […]

After his 2011 NBA championship win especially, momentum continues to mount in the argument for Dirk Nowitzki as one of the greatest power forwards in NBA history, already widely regarded as the greatest German basketball player of all time. Though well deserved, as time moves on, it can be easy to forget players of the […]

Let’s talk candidly about the last son of Krypton. Let’s talk about the life and legacy of the timeless brand from the launch of its unprecedented 1930s comic book series to its resuscitated film trilogy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Or maybe let’s talk about the death of Kal-El that followed shortly after, […]

Trevor Booker knows all about struggles. During his formative years in rough and tumble Union, South Carolina he quickly learned that nothing comes easy. In those days as a prep he averaged 22 points, 16.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the Union High Yellow Jackets, yet never won a state championship despite relatively thin competition […]

When LeBron James made “the decision” to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami last summer, talk of the NBA’s next great dynasty was thrown about in abundance. Lost in the shuffle of all the drama, however, is what exactly that means, both for Miami and the rest of the league. Though, as of […]

People often forget that Michael Jordan didn’t win his first championship until the age of 28 in his seventh NBA season. Derrick Rose just finished his third at the age of 22 and has already won an NBA MVP, which Jordan didn’t get until the age of 25. Despite this, Rose was already facing expectations […]