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Kevin Durant says Dirk Nowitzki is the best shooting big of all time, but it’s actually Kevin Durant

I’m not surprised that Kevin Durant has a great deal of respect for Dirk Nowitzki’s game. Prior to Dirk becoming one of the best players in the league, all the basketball players who were bigger than most of the other basketball players were scoffed at for not playing with their back to the basket. Chris […]

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LeBron James passes Karl Malone in quest to becoming NBA’s scoring GOAT

LeBron James moved one step closer to the ultimate goal of becoming the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on Saturday night when he passed Karl Malone for second on the list. James posted point number 36, 929 of his career in a 127-119 loss to the Wizards within Washington. He scored the basket on a layup […]

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LeBron James sets his sights on Kareem’s points record you never thought would be broken

Remember, LeBron James is not a pure scorer, so we’ve been told since his high school days. What was supposed to make his game special was his once-in-a-generation athleticism to go along with his Magic Johnson-like court vision. James dunking on the world and launching passes from one side of the court to the other… […]

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Success won’t be so easy for the Utah Jazz this time around

The NBA is back, and the Western Conference is looking even more stacked than last year. The glamour division of the Pacific looks to be the standout of the association, with a strong possibility of sending four teams to the postseason. The second-best division in the west this year will be the Northwest. They might… […]

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Assuming LeBron James wants to win a fifth championship (duh), it will take less effort from him instead of more

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James has played a combined 61,090 combined regular season and playoff minutes, per Basketball-reference.com data. That is just 1,669 total minutes less than Hall of Fame forward Karl Malone and 5,207 minutes less than Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two gold standards in… Read more…

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Everyone out: There’s a GOAT in the water

Katie Ledecky is now up to seven career Olympic gold medals after winning her signature event, the 800-meter freestyle, by 1. 26 seconds over Australian rival Ariarne Titmus. Read more…

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There will never be another game like MJ’s ‘Flu Game,’ and that’s a good thing

Twenty-four years ago today, Michael Jordan played in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz while being — as the band Disturbed would say — down with the sickness after getting food poisoning from a pizza delivered to his hotel room the night before by five randos. Read more…

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Warriors-Lakers shows just how much fans miss Warriors-Cavs

The NBA’s first-ever play-in tournament starts tomorrow — eight teams, six games, four playoff spots up for grabs. But if you turned on SportsCenter at any point in the last two days, you’d think only one game was happening tomorrow — Warriors at Lakers. Read more…