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Here is an image of Kobe and Gianna being painted in a basketball court in a place called Tenement in Manila, Philippines, as a memorial to both.
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FINISHED PRODUCT: https://imgur.com/ZxqwUTc
Over the weekend, I really engrossed myself in Terry Pluto’s fantastic book “Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association”. There were so many good stories that I decided to keep a document and share with y’all! First up is the Non-Hall-of-Fame Player section, hope y’all enjoy! (If you’re skimming for Marvin Barnes stories, I decided he deserved his own post.)
Charlie Williams (ABA guard)
It was an adventure every night. I was with Pittsburgh, and our first exhibition game was against the New Jersey Americans. New Jersey’s uniforms never showed up and they played in white T-shirts with numbers written on the back in Magic Marker. They also wore shorts or sweat pants that didn’t match. Never in my life was I so grateful to have my own uniform.
Later, we played a game in New Orleans that was held up for a half hour because something happened to the electricity. (A possum got into the wiring.)
Les Selvage (Anaheim Amigos guard)
But Les Selvage was a legend in the first year of the ABA. He was a 6-foot-3 guard who was in love with the 3-point line. He acted like if he stepped over it, he was going to get killed or something. He didn’t just shoot 25-footers—he took 30-footers. I am not exaggerating. And he did it at any time in the game. He’d be on the wing on a fast break, stop a good step behind the 3-point line and cut loose. And the guy had strong arms and wrists—he didn’t take a set shot from 30 feet, he took a normal jumper.
During the ABA’s first season, Selvage fired away from 3-point range 461 times, not just more than any other ABA player but more than any other ABA team but Pittsburgh.[...] After the first third of the season, Selvage was shooting much better from 3-point range (42 percent) than on 2-pointers (32 percent).
Art Heyman (ABA forward)
After that game, a crazy thing happened with Art Heyman. This fan had spit on Art and he punched the guy. Art was in our locker room changing his clothes when the New Orleans police came in and arrested him. We were all staring at Art, wondering how could this guy get in trouble with the cops in the middle of a championship playoff. It turned out that the fan had some sort of physical problem and he didn’t intentionally spit on Art, and when Art decked him a complaint was filed. Art apologized and patched things up, so the charges were dropped.
One of the owners decided to trade for Art Heyman from Pittsburgh without telling anyone else. Heyman showed up in
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The way this man ran the franchise into the ground is hard to put into words. Charles Oakley, a beloved Knicks legend experienced the bullshit a couple years ago and now even the biggest fan of the franchise, Spike Lee himself. This is getting beyond ridiculous and It's becoming really sad to watch this man destroy the franchise from all sides.
Adam Silver, please get this man away from the league, as far as possible. His influence is literally toxic.
Context: Mark Cuban was talking about the AAF and its relationship to the NFL. He compared it to the relationship between the G-League and the NBA.
Full quote:
> Julian Newman, a member of the 2020 recruiting class, became a viral video sensation starting at eight years old.
> "He's got a few 100,000 followers on Instagram, and after every one of his games, he's selling merchandise. He's his own little business," said an impressed Cuban. "I don't know if he's good enough to make the NBA… but people recognize what the Ball's did with Big Baller Brand and what others have done. There are building businesses and brands around themselves."
> The G-League is where Cuban sees basketball, branding and capitalism colliding.
> In October the G-League, which is comprised of 28 teams including the Wizards' Capital City Go-Go affiliate, announced it would begin offering "select contracts" worth $125,000 annually starting with the 2019-20 season to prospects not yet eligible for the NBA. Often these prospects join the college ranks for a "one-and-done" season.
> Cuban sees another path for those headliners armed with a social media following.
> "If you're a strong enough brand and a good enough basketball player, you're crazy I think if you don't take the [$125,000 salary] in the NBA G-League (because) they can also do their own marketing deals. They're not constrained by the NBA players association."
Source: Ben Standig article on Yahoo/NBC
Ben Standig is a Wizards, Redskins reporter for nbc sports washington.
https://twitter.com/nbata/status/865936398620262400
He has been on the Sixers training staff since the beginning of the 2003-2004 season according to NBA.com
As opposed go the NBA/Euro league style of play? I often hear people comment how we play ball depends too much on physicality and the lack of a proper stretch 5, which is fine for the PBA, but disastrous for international competitions.
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I guess maybe at this point it’s just a title and not really a description but with people talking about expanding to Vancouver, BC and games being played all over the world. The NBA really is international!
Do we think there’s any chance they change the name?
