If you’re not excited for the 2018 Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, you haven’t been watching near enough NBA basketball. This season’s crop of contestants includes first-time All-Star Victor Oladipo, a new-look Larry Nance Jr., and rookies Dennis Smith Jr. and Donovan Mitchell. While all these dunkers are special in their own right, no one in this year’s competition throws down […]
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Name this player. Since the start of the new year, he’s has averaged 25.5 points and 6.0 assists on 41.6 percent shooting from beyond the arc while knocking down 87.2 percent of his 6.2 free-throw attempts per night. If you guessed Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard or Steph Curry, I’m sorry to say you’re incorrect. If you […]
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With four minutes left in regulation between The Charlotte Hornets and The Washington Wizards, guards Michael Carter-Williams and Tim Frazier got into it following a fairly routing layup. In the aftermath of the short altercation, both players were ejected and because of a weird NBA rule, Wizards’ head coach Scott Brooks got to select a player […]
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