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Jackson. Tyson. Jordan. Game Six.
I used to believe the most famous person on earth had to be a Hollywood icon, like Tom Cruise, or the US President, like Obama. But in recent weeks, I’ve started wondering if Jay-Z has taken the...
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David Stern with his NBA Fashion Issues
You might have noticed lately that NBA stars have been appearing in fashion magazines, both as a peripheral model and the subject around which a cover feature revolved. That’s because NBA athletes...
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Money, It’s Gotta Be The Shoes
Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, a seminal film on racial/cultural tension in America, isn’t so much a story, but a series of seemingly unconnected yarns in the Bed-Stuy district of Brooklyn that, due...
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For the Love of the Game
Of the four major sports leagues of North America, the NBA is, by light years, the most popular in Asia. While American media have often attributed this growth to the emergence of Yao Ming in the...
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Mutant and Proud
It finally happened. A professional athlete in the US has come out of the closet. He’s not a household name by any means, but he’s an active athlete, making millions of dollars in one of the four...
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On to the Next One
“Would’ve brought the Nets to Brooklyn for free. Except I made millions off it, you fucking dweeb. I still own the building, I’m still keeping my seat. Y’all buy that bullshit, you’d better keep y’all...
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Close It Out Like Jordan
This is a semi-fictional account of Obama and Kim Jong Un watching Jordan clinch his sixth NBA title. Locations and job titles and even some quotes are based off reported facts — For example, Kim...
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Ubuntu
The Celtics, taunting the Madison Square Garden crowd, after Paul Pierce hit a game winner over the Knicks in 2010. I’m breaking away from the pop culture shit for this post, because my favorite...
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Hoop Dreams Deflate Like True Fiends’ Weight
Will Smith, of Bel-Air Prep, faces off against Marcus Stokes, of Malibu Prep, in the rich-ass-kids high school championship game I have this recurring gag with my flatmate that I’m “street.” Though I...
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Swallowing Shots of “Stupid”
When it comes to publishing, Hong Kong is an anomaly, in that print here is not only surviving, but it’s thriving. South China Morning Post, a publication for which I worked and from which I learned,...
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From the Chi, Like Tim, It’s the Hard-a-way
This entry takes the premise of this blog — how NBA influences pop culture — and, to quote the Prince, flip turns it upside down, so I’d like to take a minute and sit right here and tell you how these...
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Great Powers, Great Responsibilities
Superheroes are big business. Iron Man 3 just netted the second biggest box office opening in movie history, trailing only the Avengers, of which Iron Man was also a part. And while last year’s The...
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Bruh Man, Upstairs, Fifth Flo’
When Russell Westbrook went down with a season-ending knee injury three weeks ago, it led to two things: A: The abrupt end of the Westbrook Or Flatmate game, which had started to become a hit with...
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OKC.
NYT front page. During the aftermath of the horrific and infuriating Boston bombings, I tweeted something about how the Celtics and Red Sox playing hard and playing proud — win or lose, wouldn’t matter...
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Showtime
Last week, the New York Times published a story on a scary new casually transmitted disease that’s killed seven gay men in New York City since 2010. So far, every one diagnosed with the disease has...
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Get By With A Little Help
Vic hugging me on defense Boy Meets World is one of my favorite all time sitcoms. Yes, in the long list of my other loves — NBA; select rock/rap music; Tarantino films; 80s HK cinema; dark, gritty,...
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No Country For Big Men
Illo on left by Patrick Truby, http://rembrandtofroundball.tumblr.com/ I have a new piece in Sports Illustrated, about how basketball’s advanced metrics movement – think Moneyball, but the guys are...
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Basketball Hipsters
Though they have the son of an Olympic triple jump gold medalist; two elite defenders — one of whom officially christened the defensive player of the year recently — anchoring the league’s stingiest...
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Bed-Stuy Do or Die
Though LeBron James is likely two to three weeks away from winning his second NBA title in as many years, his decision to take his talents to South Beach in the summer of 2010 remains a mistake to me....
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Over/Under: The Greatness of Tim Duncan and the value of proper ratings
As the opening game of the NBA Finals came to an end and the Twittersphere collectively marveled at Tony Parker’s game-sealing, “French Kiss” dagger, one thought came to my mind: Everyone’s going to...
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