Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Kobe Bryant knows the stories well. He has nothing but love for the man whose legacy stretches from the cramped gyms and bare knuckle brawls of the 1950s, to the innovative way that teams prepare for games today. When Bryant joins the Los Angeles Lakers as a 17-year-old rookie fresh […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | He battles George Mikan during the early days of his professional career and teams with Bill Russell in its twilight, his contributions to the game obscured by basketball’s most dominant big men of the twentieth century. Arnie Risen is understandably cool with this. The shadows cast by Mikan and Russell […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Garbage time is hardly the place where legends are born – those moments are usually reserved for the huge, pressure-packed situations, when everything is on the line and the fans are on their feet, their throaty roar engulfing the participants, swallowing them whole – but all of that changed […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | The coolest cat on the Celtics’ roster is a bad-ass with a hot head and a childhood history of causing trouble. He grows up in Harlem, and is five years old when the infamous Harlem Race Riot of 1943 occurs, in which police are attacked, stores are vandalized and looted, […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | He played basketball in an era when fists flew as freely as the two-handed set shots that defined a generation. Think John Wayne on hardwood, and you begin to feel the essence of Bob Brannum. A man’s man, Brannum was a blue collar warrior who approached the game with reckless […]