James shot 56.5 percent this season and made 103 3-pointers — no one in league history has ever shot so well and made so many shots in a season from beyond the arc. In the metric known as PAR, that being an acronym for points, assists and rebounds per game, James led the league for the fifth time in six seasons. He led the league in field goals, but was only seventh in shots attempted. He could have missed 348 more shots and still finished with a better shooting percentage than scoring champion Carmelo Anthony.
Jeez.
Basketball Diaries, Afghanistan
Gorgeous long read. Triumphs and tragedies of young American coaching pickup basketball team in Jalalabad. Starts well. Team thrives, gets invited to tournament in Kabul. Then the problems start. Small ones first, lethal ones later.
(Source: thebrowser.com)
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Both the NBA and the NCAA Want to Keep Athletes in College for Too Long
I hate to take a cynical note on this, but I don’t think Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, or anyone else in the NCAA really cares about young men going to college—or at least attending college classes. I think what they care about is whether or not these young men play college basketball, and I think what they would like is to have the NBA’s cooperation in doing anything they can to keep boys playing college basketball for as long as they can.
The simple reality is that most basketball and football players who wind up in the pros had little or no interest in going to college in the first place. They want to be first in line for the professional drafts that will take them away from the world of amateur sham, very reasonably wanting their talents to produce revenue for themselves and their families instead of university athletic departments. Now, when the boys are in the best position to make that pay for them, colleges pretending to show some concern.
“It makes a travesty,” said Emmert, “of the whole notion of student as an athlete.” One might call that poetic justice since for nearly a century colleges have been making a travesty of the notion of athlete as student.
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Both the NBA and the NCAA Want to Keep Athletes in College for Too Long
I hate to take a cynical note on this, but I don’t think Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, or anyone else in the NCAA really cares about young men going to college—or at least attending college classes. I think what they care about is whether or not these young men play college basketball, and I think what they would like is to have the NBA’s cooperation in doing anything they can to keep boys playing college basketball for as long as they can.
The simple reality is that most basketball and football players who wind up in the pros had little or no interest in going to college in the first place. They want to be first in line for the professional drafts that will take them away from the world of amateur sham, very reasonably wanting their talents to produce revenue for themselves and their families instead of university athletic departments. Now, when the boys are in the best position to make that pay for them, colleges pretending to show some concern.
“It makes a travesty,” said Emmert, “of the whole notion of student as an athlete.” One might call that poetic justice since for nearly a century colleges have been making a travesty of the notion of athlete as student.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
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Wow, man wins how many consecutive games and after one loss the cleverly racist headline gets pulled out? What fickle, ignorant times we live in.
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Happy 49th birthday MJ. (Walter Iooss/SI)
GALLERY: Michael Jordan’s Hall Of Fame Career | SI Covers
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“Hi, I’m Canadian celebrity, Steve Nash.”
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Not Bad for the 7th Best Player in the league.
- Kobe Bryant, following his 48 point effort against the Suns last night, in response to this.
Sports Illustrated’s annual college basketball season preview hits the newsstands tomorrow. Here is a look at some covers from years past. (Georgetown, Larry Bird - Lane Stewart/SI; Pete Maravich - Richard Meek/SI)
PHOTO GALLERY: SI’s College Basketball Previews Through The Years
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Derrick Fisher, if you ruin this for me, I swear to God…
Talks have broken down in the CBA negotiations, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.
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