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Holden Perrelli | Monday, April 1, 2019
LeBron James will miss the last six games of the regular season for the Los Angeles Lakers, according to a joint statement from team president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka. The Lakers are citing a groin injury that cost James 17 consecutive games during the season as the impetus for the decision, with
Paris Shirley | Friday, March 22, 2019
When LeBron James packed up his bags for the bright lights of Los Angeles last summer, he flipped the script on many of the commanding narratives of the modern NBA. It was a revolution in the movement of player empowerment that began with his superteam-constructing actions eight years prior in Miami, and simultaneously a “Game
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, March 20, 2019
“We’re gonna introduce now the North Clayton Eagles / Coached by James Gwynn / His starters, number 21, Tauheed Epps.” The announcer’s voice cuts out, but you can watch, or just imagine, the rest. A tall, lanky high school kid strides past his teammates — receiving high fives as he goes — then shakes hands
Grant DelVecchio | Thursday, March 7, 2019
The NBA season is coming down the home stretch with just about a month of games remaining in the regular season, and the playoff race involving numerous teams desperate to make the cut is just starting to heat up. Of these teams, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are currently on the outside looking
Will Richard | Friday, February 8, 2019
In the past few years, we have observed a shift in the sports culture: The era of building and developing through the draft has, in most cases, died off. Rather, the new movement in sports culture reflects a heightened emphasis on aggressive moves through front-office management via trades or free agency to acquire as much
Connor Mulvena | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I love the NBA this year. I always love basketball season, and I look forward to college basketball and the NBA every year, but for me, the NBA has a special charm that college basketball just doesn’t. The macho, tough guy side of me, which, as everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting me
Mia Berry | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The infamous J.R. Smith game-1 debacle and the Warriors’ eventual sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals all but assured that there would be The Decision: Part II within the coming weeks. The Lakers won the sweepstakes the second time around, but unlike the promises of championships that came when he teamed
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
As “The Star Spangled Banner” played on the speakers of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday afternoon before the Dolphins beat the Tennessee Titans, Miami wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson knelt. It wasn’t the first time they’d knelt. Stills and Wilson are two in a long line of players who have protested “[oppression
Tobias Hoonhout | Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Well, it’s good to be back. For the first Sports Authority of the year, I thought I’d take a page out of Sports Authority legend Marek Mazurek’s book and go off on a recap spree. And while we’ve had a packed summer of esports events — my boss Courtney Becker will agree with me —
Benjamin Padanilam | Monday, April 23, 2018
Tom Brady has five Super Bowl rings. Michael Jordan won six NBA championships. For many people, those facts alone seal their cases as the greatest athletes in the history of their respective sports. In a game where winning is the ultimate objective, they did it as well as anyone while staying elite players for extended