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Tyler Herro deserves a better celebrity BFF than Jack Harlow

Casual NBA fans think of Jimmy Butler when they think of the Miami Heat. He can be great, but is more often than not, just really good, and that’s earned him such national TV ads as the Michelob Ultra commercial where he sings Hootie & the Blowfish on an airplane. As much as adolescent me […]

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Darren Rovell is why White America needs to leave MLK Day alone

If Dr . Martin Luther King Jr. magically rose from the dead, he would be dumbfounded by what America has become — and still is. But, he would soon realize one thing in particular that hasn’t changed: how infuriating the white moderate remains to be, as sports business analyst Darren Rovell decided to prove on […]

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No Tyler Herro, you should not be in Luka, Trae, or Ja’s category

Yesterday, Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro made an appearance on a podcast and talked about how he views himself as an NBA talent. Herro responded claiming that he believes he should be in the conversation as the other young up-and-comers in the league with the potential to become All-Stars or superstars. That’s fair. I… Read […]

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Remember when Dame and Shaq had beef? Now they’re collaborating on a dang sneaker

It was less than two years ago, in a pre-COVID time, when Damian Lillard and Shaquille O’Neal were exchanging diss records at each other, and the rest of us witnessed it play out over the course of a week. Now, to be fair, the beef was “just for fun, ” according to O’Neal at least […]

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Ten, named for Mookie Blaylock’s number, is 30 years old (Mookie is now 54… How’s THAT feel?!)

There was a time when I used to mark the inevitable march of time by how long ago Pearl Jam’s album Ten came out. This started sometime in the late-1990s when my former high school classmate (who was the only person from high school I chose to stay in contact with — we both pretty […]

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Was Jayson Tatum right? Was Tyler Herro merely a ‘bubble fraud’?

Less than eight months ago, Tyler Herro was being labeled the “next great shooting guard” in a league filled to the brim with high-end backcourt talent. Herro was set to help lead the Miami Heat on multiple deep playoff runs as part of the team’s new Big 3 — along with Jimmy Butler and Bam […]