Atlantic Yards Report Developer Bruce Ratner said yesterday in a statement that "the intent [is] that the Nets will play ball in the Barclays Center in the 2011-2012 NBA Season." The New York Times reported today: The developer expects that it will take about 28 months to build the arena, enabling the Nets to move from East Rutherford, N.J., to Brooklyn around June 2012. The season's over...
Charles Barkley never holds back and he didn't on Jay's show. Talks Sammy Sossa, his governor run, becoming a General Manager and his famous two words. Share on Facebook
Who made more in their careers, Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Which is greater, the 2009 Opening Day payroll of the Yankees or the GDP of Micronesia? In today’s quiz, we’ll give you two quantities, and it’s your job to pick out which one is larger. Take the Quiz: Sports Quantities
Welcome to the latest article in the Ask The Experts series, brought to you by the ATL Career Center , powered by Lateral Link . This week's experts include Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella , Mike Woronoff of Proskauer Rose , and Vivian Yang, General Counsel at Citysearch , who served as panelists on the Career Center's Professional Development panel for mid-level associates on long-term career planning,...
by Terence Moore Filed under: Hawks ATLANTA -- Either Dr. Phil or Charles Barkley once said, if you wish to advance in life, you must start with the image in the mirror. So the Atlanta Hawks will continue to scare people the rest of this NBA season. That's because they know exactly what they are, and they know exactly what they are not. Here's what the Hawks are: Pretty good. Actually, the Hawks are...
LAWRENCE | Listening to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird talk at the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony Sunday night in Kansas City, Kansas coach Bill Self naturally thought about his own team. “They made passing the basketball cool in an era when guys were pretty much hungry to score,” Self said. “Our guys don’t think selfishly, I just...
By J.A. Adande As a longtime student of the game who devoured NBA videotapes as a youngster, Kobe Bryant didn't need to hear an explanation when his circus shot from behind the basket against the Thunder Sunday night was compared to Larry Bird's over-the-backboard shot in the 1980s. But Bryant felt compelled to point out one key difference: "His didn't count." Indeed, if you watch Bird clip...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Larry Bird finished his speech, walked back to his seat and received a fist bump from the man sitting next to him on the dais. Had to be Magic Johnson.
LOS ANGELES — More than two decades ago, after Larry Bird made a shot from behind the backboard that didn't count in a preseason game, the NBA changed the rule on plays like that. Kobe Bryant was glad they did. Bryant duplicated Bird's memorable shot and finished with 26 points, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 101-85 rout of the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night and adding yet another...
On a night of crazy highlights, Kobe (as is his way) provided the best one. (Some of you old timers may remember that Larry Bird hit a similar shot during a game, but when you watch the video you see the ref starting to wave it off immediately. That’s because in the 80s that shot was [...]
by Chris Sesno Filed under: Lakers , Thunder These days, we expect greatness from our NBA stars, and Kobe delivers on a consistent basis. On Sunday night, he drilled one of the craziest shots of his career in the Lakers game against the Oklahoma City Thunder . Kobe got the ball on the low post, guarded closely by OKC's James Harden . As he tried to spin baseline, Harden bumped him just enough to force...
by David Steele Filed under: Michigan State , FanHouse Exclusive KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inducted eight new members Sunday night, and nearly half of the two-hour ceremony was devoted to two of them. Not that it wasn't deserved: from the moment the list of enshrinees for the hall's fourth class was announced, it was universally known that it would be a Magic...
LOS ANGELES -- More than two decades ago, after Larry Bird made a shot from behind the backboard that didn't count in a preseason game, the NBA changed the rule on plays like that. Kobe Bryant was glad they did.
(By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Sports Writer) Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together. Bird and Johnson were inducted into the National Collegiate Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City. The honor comes 30 years after Johnson's Michigan State team beat Bird and Indiana State in a game that reshaped...
Michael Jordan has chosen David Thompson, another high flyer from North Carolina, to present him, while Charles Barkley and Isiah Thomas also will be presenters at the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. Jordan highlights a class that includes David Robinson, John Stockton, and coaches Jerry Sloan of the Utah Jazz and C. Vivian Stringer of Rutgers. Each was asked to select a previous inductee to serve...
The Air Jordans story, in my mind at least, starts not with the marketing or with the man but rather with the shoes. Peter Moore designed the original Air Jordans and they looked nothing like their predecessors. Sneakers had almost always been white, crisp like snow when new, beige and brown once they got old. But Moore...
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