We’re sure you’ve seen this already but it’s hard not to watch it again and again. Such a fitting tribute to a young man, whose NBA dream was prematurely crushed by an unforeseen circumstance. If this doesn’t get you at least a little choked up, then you have a heart made out of whatever material they use for making submarines.
In the basketball gold medal game, the home team faced Brazil. Everybody on earth expected USA, featuring the likes of future NBA mainstays Danny Manning, Dan Majerle, Rex Chapman, and David Robinson, to trample the visitors. But Brazil’s Oscar Schmidt had other plans.
It’s D-Day in the NBA tomorrow. ESPN writer, Grantland contributor, and We’ll Always Have Linsanity co-author Jared Dubin made his mock draft for the 2014 NBA Draft and he was absolutely right on the money. Even the most sharp-eyed scouts and RC Buford couldn’t have nailed this one.
Whoever put up this billboard in San Antonio castigating LeBron’s latest decision is pretty clever—and also filthy rich.
For all you speculative people, uhm, speculating and picturing where LeBron will end up, someone conveniently Photoshopped LBJ wearing jerseys of all the 30 teams.
Joel Embiid: Hey, thanks for visiting me, man.
Jabari Parker: Thanks for getting injured. My odds of being selected first overall just got sweeter. Here’s a Gatorade and some Flintstones vitamins for you.
The town was painted silver and black as the Spurs celebrated their fifth NBA championship with the traditional city-wide motorcade. There were plenty of cheers to go around as the thousands of fans whooped it up with their favorite players. There were plenty of chuckle-generating moments as well, highlighted by Gregg Popovich taking a hilarious jab at LeBron’s infamous multiple championships prediction in 2010.
