Growing up in Michigan, I disliked Larry Bird and his Boston Celtics a lot. It wasn’t until later in Bird’s career, and after he had retired that I began to look past my prejudice and really appreciate the man’s basketball ability. Bird is the owner of one of my top-3 favorite NBA plays of all [...]

Last night in a game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Indiana Pacers, the Buck’s big Aussie center Andrew Bogut dropped a soft behind-the-back pass to a cutting Carlos Delfino. Watch the video below: Bogut doesn’t always get the chance to display his passing skills (2.0 assists a game), but that was Arvydas Sabonis-esque. Bogut’s [...]

When the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics won their NBA champioships in 2006 and 2008 respectively, they did so without one international player on their roster that entire season. When I saw that, I thought to myself “In today’s NBA, what are the chances that a team could go throughout a season without on foreign-born player [...]

During the 2008-09 NBA season, a rejuvenated Shaquille O’Neal moved up five spots on the NBA’s all-time scorers’ list. After scoring 1333 points, his highest total in four seasons, O’Neal is now #5 on the all-time list having surpassed Dominique Wilkins, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Oscar Robertson, and international player Hakeem Olajuwon. What of International [...]