Atlanta Hawks Are the NBA’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company

If there’s anyone who should have walked into the office on Monday morning showering praise upon Hidden Figures, and its three African-American female leads, or taking extensive notes when President Obama gave kudos to his wife during his farewell address Tuesday night, it would be Atlanta Hawks general manager Wes Wilcox. Last Thursday, Wilcox landed in hot water for for [&hellip

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The Long Con-ald Trump

In November, Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency punched a hole in our election system. Ray Bradbury’s magnum opus, Fahrenheit 451 offers a lesson to his voters in the form of a quote uttered by Professor Faber. “If you hide your ignorance, nobody will hit you and you’ll never learn.” In other words, painful mistakes are how we learn. Soon, [&hellip

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Previewing NBA Teams As Presidential Candidates

The NBA is barely a week into its regular season. Draymond Green hasn’t even stretched for his first Rockette kick. Alternatively, the general election cycle is also closing in on two years of campaigning and punditry analysis. Thankfully, the end is near. The intersection of these two events inspired a novel idea. Recently, Pat Buchanan used the term, “political athlete” in [&hellip

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Marvel at Golden State’s NBA Avengers

If you could use an analogy to describe the superficial analog between the Warriors signing of Kevin Durant and the Miami Heat acquiring the services of LeBron James six years ago, it would be the film strategy for rolling out DC’s Justice League vs. Marvel’s Avengers. Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and James were crammed together almost all at once. The [&hellip

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VICE Sports: LeBron James Is The NBA’s Anachronistic Superstar

I wrote about this young actor for VICE Sports. He is also an old NBA player from Ohio. Did you know that according to the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, Michael Jordan was the only player to score a non-dunk field goal in the original Space Jam? That Space Jam 2 role is perfect, because LeBron has forgotten how to shoot, [&hellip

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