Lots of times, when you’re at a bar and BS’ing with your friends about how you could do a better job running your favorite NBA team than the current General Manager in place (based off some of the highly suspect moves orchestrated by said GM), you might have a point. For every Red Auerbach or Jerry West or RC Buford, there are hordes of GM’s who have run teams, and turned … [Read more...]
The NBA’s Most Famous (And Infamous) Foreign Born Players
The NBA is an international game now. An international team just won the NBA championship, and it was a team comprised of many international players. An international player is about to win the league’s MVP award, and another international player will finish fourth or fifth on the ballot. The NBA is no longer just a U.S. game. Now there are players from Europe and Asia and … [Read more...]
Every NBA Team’s Best and Worst Draft Pick of All-Time
When it comes to the NBA Draft, and projecting what a player was versus previously versus what a player could be in the future, at the risk of using even more sports clichés, it really is all about beauty being in the eye of the beholder, and the process being much more of an art than a science. Sometimes, that player you selected can completely alter the trajectory of an … [Read more...]
Promising NFL Careers Ended By Injury
21. Bo Jackson - Retired at 28 in 1990 Calling Vincent "Bo" Jackson a "superstar" is an understatement. Bo wasn't just an freak athlete -- he was skilled enough to be named an All Star in two different professional sports. Because of his on-field success and off-the-field endorsements, including the wildly successful "Bo Knows" marketing campaign by Nike, he became a … [Read more...]
[Gallery] MLB’s 15 Biggest One-Hit Wonders of All-Time
BOB HAMELIN, DH, ROYALS, 1994 George Brett retired in 1993 after a Hall of Fame career and was replaced by Hamelin. Much to everyone’s surprise, Hamelin outdid Brett himself by hitting .282/.388/.599 in 101 games and smacking 24 home runs. He easily won the Rookie of the Year award over another pretty good slugger named Manny Ramirez. But all Brett comparisons faded after … [Read more...]