April 24, 2024
Wednesday
LIKE a 50-point game, a triple-double performance by an athlete during a basketball contest is something special that easily attracts a lot of attention from hoops fans. And it becomes even more mind-boggling if a player is able to AVERAGE a triple-double for an entire season such as what Oscar Robertson (The Big O) and […]
A TITLE in the college or professional level, or an Olympic gold medal, is something to crow about. Still, the highest honor that can be bestowed to a basketball player or coach, or even an official, is to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The 13-member Class of 2018 – including […]
“THEY say it’s your birthday … we’re gonna have a good time” says iconic Beatle Paul McCartney. Okay but don’t tell that New Orleans Pelican Anthony Marshon Davis, who hardly celebrated his 25th birthday last March 11 following his team’s 116-99 home loss to the fast-rising Utah Jazz in a National Basketball Association game. In […]
FOR all his much-publicized shooting woes, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball has already set a new National Basketball Association (NBA) record this early into the 2017-18 wars. Last November 11, Ball became the youngest player in NBA annals to collect a triple-double (double figures in any three of the five major statistical categories) when […]