Posts tagged nba
Dreamy.
i’m not sure if this picture was taken at the 1983 nba draft, or a bar mitzvah. either way, you get two mustaches for the price of one.
Fair trade-off?
Steve Nash attempts to find an opening as Jason Kidd D’s him up during a 1999 Suns-Mavs game. More than a decade later, the two are still among the NBA’s top point guards. (John W. McDonough/SI)
GALLERY: Rare Photos of Jason Kidd | Steve Nash
“The Greatest Team that Never Was,” an oral history of the 80’s-era Houston Rockets, by Jonathan Abrams at Grantland.com.
Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder on the cover of tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine.
photo by Howard Schatz.
Slater Martin, Hall of Fame Lakers Guard, Dies at 86.
Slater Martin, the Hall of Fame guard whose playmaking and defensive brilliance helped take the Minneapolis Lakers to four N.B.A. championship in the league’s first decade, died Thursday in Houston
Born in Elmira, Texas, in 1925, he played on two state championship teams at Jefferson Davis High School in Houston. But at only 5’7”, 130 pounds, he was an unlikely college prospect. He hitchhiked to Austin for a tryout at the University of Texas and made its 1943-44 basketball team, but joined the Navy after playing in only a few games. While serving in the Pacific during World War II, he grew to 5-foot-10.
When he returned to Texas in 1946, Martin starred as one of the team’s three quick guards—known as the Orange Mice or the Mighty Mice—who ran weaves until Martin or a teammate got open for a one-handed push shot. He led Texas to the N.C.A.A. final four in 1947 and set a school record by scoring 49 points against Texas Christian in his senior year.
The one who’s not from Sudan is from Dallas.
Manute Bol and Spud Webb, both of the USBL’s Rhode Island Gulls, pose during a June 1985 SI photo shoot. Bol, who died in 2010, would’ve turned 50 today. (Manny Millan/SI)
GALLERY: Classic Photos of Manute Bol
Cosby sweater weather is here.
Calvin and Grant Hill, rom SI’s “Like Fathers, Like Sons” collection.
…and first dunked as a 5’6” senior at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas.
Happy 49th birthday Spud Webb. The former Slam Dunk champion is currently the President of Basketball Operations for the Texas Legends, the D-League affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks. (Walter Iooss Jr./SI)
GALLERY: Classic NBA All-Star Moments
Iceman.
RIP, Big Man.
photo by Getty Images.
