Let me just come out and say it: Steve Nash is Prime Minister material. Last week, Canadians went to the polls and gave current Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party a majority government. And while we look to the future and wonder what the next four years will look like, some will speculate who the next Prime Minister will be. My […]

There’s a man with a bear on his leg that deserves your respect, not for spending his formative years as a professional athlete toiling in what was viewed by his colleagues as an NBA wasteland, not for his rapid ascent up the business side of the sport he dominated all his life immediately upon retiring […]

Numbers, although deceiving, don’t lie. It’s an infamous cliche both comforting and disturbing for Toronto Raptors scoring point guard Jerryd Bayless. The 22-year-old, after all, has seen combinations of digits dictate the majority of his brief career, occasionally for better, but often for worse. Numbers of opportunities have limited his chance to showcase the offensive ability he […]

The conditions are ripe for the NBA’s return to Vancouver – but hold on, Seattle has dibs. On the evening of Apr. 28, the No. 8 seed Memphis Grizzlies entered the AT&T Center in San Antonio looking to knock out the No. 1 seed Spurs. Had it not been for some last second Spurs heroics and perfect […]

The 2005 NHL lockout was a good time to be a sports fan in Canada, and especially a basketball fan. With the only hockey half a world away and a limited demand for games from 1985, it seemed like a NBA game on every evening; sometimes it was closer to two or three. The playoffs were especially […]

It’s completely acceptable for a man to cry in public; especially when that man is Michael Jordan and especially when he’s won his first NBA championship. It’s impossible to forget such an image. There he was, His Airness, clutching the Larry O’Brien trophy like a parent who found their missing child. Tears, mixed with sweat, ran down […]

Antawn Jamison has been a lot of things over the course of his basketball life; a homegrown hoops hero, Chapel Hill icon, blue chip prospect, promising young NBA stud, under-appreciated star, award-winning reserve, under-appreciated All-Star, helpless witness to a franchise collapse, three-time tradee, helpless witness to another franchise collapse, and finally, wise old veteran. Naturally he knows what […]

A faceless man takes his time dribbling up a court in a crowded basketball stadium that another team calls home. He assumes that the jeers and the voracious racket pouring out onto the hardwood from the frenzied audience above are intended to distract him, but he has other things to worry about. Cautiously he approaches […]

Ever see Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon? It’s a great movie, even if it’s a little confusing. It goes a little something like this: a woodcutter tells a man about his experience finding a dead samurai in the woods. He tells four versions of the story, three he heard during a trial – the thief who killed […]

At first glance Brook Lopez is an imposing figure in a Jack and the Beanstalk sort of way – especially for those unfortunate enough to have to check him in a half court offense – but a perplexing first-step combined with his undisputedly harrowing size make him more than just imposing, they make him rather […]