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NBA Cup Week 1 - 76ers Joel Embiid

NBA Cup Week 1: Sore Box Score

The Emirates NBA Cup (formerly known as the In-Season Tournament) is here. The event, which gives teams something to fight for early in the season, is in its second year. Last year’s winner, the Los Angeles Lakers, will now be trying to defend their crown. Let’s focus on some of the blunders and bone-headed plays that happened in the first week.

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Report: NBA Exec Says No Teams are Interested in Waiters

On Saturday night, the Miami Heat announced that they suspended Dion Waiters for conduct detrimental to the team. Heat president Pat Riley was quoted as saying the suspension stemmed from “a number of unacceptable incidents this week, culminating with his unprofessional conduct on the bench last night.”

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Remembering Hank Gathers: Basketball Isn’t Worth Dying For

Today is the 29th anniversary of Hank Gathers’ tragic death. If you don’t know who that is, don’t worry. At this point, after this many years, it’s quite easy to have never known who Gathers was, as a player or as a man. But for people who did get the chance to follow his career, they won’t forget easily.

For the sake of readers who either want to learn or reminisce, for the sake of my own undying need to write about the greatest phenomenon the world of basketball missed out on for terribly tragic reasons, and, hopefully, for the sake of Gathers’ legacy – so even a few more people can know of his story – it’s time to take a trip back through the time machine to meet a kid who loved basketball named Hank.

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NBA Cup Week 1 - 76ers Joel Embiid
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NBA Cup Week 1: Sore Box Score

The Emirates NBA Cup (formerly known as the In-Season Tournament) is here. The event, which gives teams something to fight for early in the season, is in its second year. Last year’s winner, the Los Angeles Lakers, will now be trying to defend their crown. Let’s focus on some of the blunders and bone-headed plays that happened in the first week.

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The Filipino Connection in the NBA
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The Filipino Connection in the NBA

You don’t need to go far to find a basketball rim in the Philippines. Why is the country obsessed with basketball? The answer can be traced back to the early 1900s.

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Report: NBA Exec Says No Teams are Interested in Waiters

On Saturday night, the Miami Heat announced that they suspended Dion Waiters for conduct detrimental to the team. Heat president Pat Riley was quoted as saying the suspension stemmed from “a number of unacceptable incidents this week, culminating with his unprofessional conduct on the bench last night.”

Read More

Remembering Hank Gathers: Basketball Isn’t Worth Dying For

Today is the 29th anniversary of Hank Gathers’ tragic death. If you don’t know who that is, don’t worry. At this point, after this many years, it’s quite easy to have never known who Gathers was, as a player or as a man. But for people who did get the chance to follow his career, they won’t forget easily.

For the sake of readers who either want to learn or reminisce, for the sake of my own undying need to write about the greatest phenomenon the world of basketball missed out on for terribly tragic reasons, and, hopefully, for the sake of Gathers’ legacy – so even a few more people can know of his story – it’s time to take a trip back through the time machine to meet a kid who loved basketball named Hank.

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