The sweaty and hot stadium with its creaky parquet floors and hulking rafters and passionate howling patrons was helpless in the spring of 1985. In the old Boston Garden, it was quiet for a moment. It was clear there would be no Celtics comeback, this was it, the last game of the year for Larry…
As Labor Day weekend ushers in the end of summer, the countdown for NBA training camp begins. Three weeks before media day starts, NBA off court news runs the gamut from the oh really– Kevin Durant’s top 5, to the oh you’re stupid– Dwight Howard trying to bring a gun on the plane, to oh stop…
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar’s professional career, the width and length of it, has always been defined by grace, quiet leadership and excellence as he reached milestones only the extraordinary have the ability to achieve. He left the NBA stage the way he entered it: with reverential respect. In his post-NBA life he graduated to greater relevance and reinforced what had always…