Category Archives: Basketball

Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Luke Ford

Jeff Pearlman writes in this 2014 book: * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hated white people. Read that sentence again. And again. And again. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hated white people and, quite frankly, why wouldn’t he have? Born on April 16, 1947, in New … Continue reading →

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Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this new book by Jeff Pearlman: * To Walker, it’s all a joke. He and Bryant entered the league together, and the majority of players on the roster view Kobe’s latest efforts not unlike MC … Continue reading →

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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book: * On March 2, 2019, sports media impresario Bill Simmons conducted a news-making one-on-one panel with NBA commissioner Adam Silver at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Though Simmons is by nature … Continue reading →

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Urban Black Basketball

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

Here’s an excerpt from an Esquire interview with Steve Oney: EC: There are a few lines from Brown that suggest a racial insensitivity that today would not be permissible but at the time was a more accepted part of the … Continue reading →

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Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Luke Ford

I’m enjoying this series on Watch ESPN. I love most of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentaries. I love sports docos in general. The 1960s Celtics were probably the greatest team ever but they couldn’t draw fans while Boston’s last-placed hockey … Continue reading →

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