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Brittney Griner’s Impact On Russian Basketball

Uncategorized03/21/202217Views 0Likes 0Comments

Brittney Griner, who won the NCAA National Championship with Baylor, as well as the 2012 college basketball Player of the Year award, a 2014 WNBA champion, and a 2-time Olympic gold medalist was arrested. On February 17, 2022, Russian officials found vape cartridges that contained hash oil residue in her luggage at Sheremetyevo International airport.…

Top 75 Women’s Basketball Players

All Time W Pro, Basketball History, Top This & That, Womens Pro Basketball01/30/202280Views 0Likes 0Comments

Like our list of Top 75 Men's basketball players, the Women's Top 75 list is comprised of women we felt accomplished both individually and collectively in side of their teams. Lastly, we also rated these elite athletes on their influence on the generations that followed. #75 Paula Goncalves Atlanta-1996 (Reproduction/Instagram)FIBA Hall of Fame Women’s Basketball…

Mama, Duke Is Stealing All Of The Players Again!

High School01/19/202216Views 0Likes 0Comments

Here we go again. The Duke Blue Devils are hogging all the nation’s best high school basketball players. They are about to kick everybody's butt. Again. Is any other university going to get in the way? What happened to all that fight you teach your players in practice every day? Where is the work from…

Nobody Wants It With JuJu

Featured, M College Basketball01/16/202224Views 0Likes 0Comments

There is one basketball player that comes around every few years that has the IT Factor. Everything works. Jump shot falls. The handle on the basketball is pure and effortless. The passes thrown are make it through traffic. Meet Judea "JuJu" Watkins (G-C/O 2023), the one of the best player in her class. We've been…

Handle The College Workload

BB Reads01/06/20229Views 0Likes 0Comments

Student-athletes are more like athlete-students. Universities in the United States have found a way to get athletes to believe that they should be able to maintain academic excellence all the while performing at a high level on the playing field. I argue that the likelihood of being able to accomplish this feat low. Very low.…

50 All-Time Elite Defenders In Basketball History

Basketball History, NBA All-Time, Top This & That12/28/2021764Views 0Likes 0Comments

Extended debates on the best defenders in basketball history prompted this list of all-time elite defenders. Son of basketball legend Randolph Childress and one of the best basketball players in Wake Forest history, Brandon Childress, said "in order to be a great defender, you have to be able to shut the water off" [on good…

Ja From Nowhere

High School11/26/20218Views 0Likes 0Comments

A good basketball player usually comes from a combination of good training, coaching and promotion on a basketball platform in which the player can perform and the world takes notice. Temetrius Jamel "Ja" Morant from Dalzell South Carolina was initially trained and coached by his dad Tee Morant who played high level high school and…

Top 75 Men’s Basketball Players All-Time

Basketball History, Mens Pro Basketball, NBA All-Time, Top This & That10/20/202133Views 0Likes 0Comments

We decided to create a list with our criteria for the 75 greatest players of all-time. Criteria Impact on winning Individual game transcending era Impact on the rule changes Impact on the generations that followed #75 Paul Pierce 1x NBA Champ 1x Finals MVP 10x Time All-Star 4x…

Slavery and Revenue Sports

Uncategorized07/19/202116Views 0Likes 0Comments

Slavery in almost every situation is about commerce. According to the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 2.5 million slaves were shipped to the U.S. That's probably a conservative number. Sports can harbor some of the same ideologies. In FIBA and FIFA, players can be sold to other teams. European kids are signed at a young age…

Athletes Value in Society

Uncategorized07/07/202111Views 0Likes 0Comments

Maya Moore opting to not play and focus on social injustice. Football players like Ryan Clark talk about how racism and prejudice have affected he and his family. Tom Brady post a pic of George Floyd. Drew Brees started in with the argument that the flag was being disrespected, but was then back tracked on…

Athletes Value in Society

Uncategorized07/07/202014Views 0Likes 0Comments

Colin Kaepernick was right. The unwarranted killing of unarmed people of color at the hands of the police is out of control. Taking a knee to bring attention to the matter was the right thing to do. Three years later another unarmed African American man is killed over a counterfeit bill discrepancy, and it is…

Trae Young Proves Small Guards Are More Than Shooting

High School02/21/202017Views 0Likes 0Comments

Positionless play has become more commonplace in basketball over the last 10 years. In that, the small guard has found a place as more than scorers and defenders. Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors came along and turned that style of play into championship basketball. Since then NBA teams have been unafraid to invest…