By Ali
photo of the unc’s dean dome: peterkrogh.com
The North Carolina Tar Heels. The legacy of this esteemed college basketball program conjures up words like prestige, championships, class and dominance, along with Hall of Fame names like Michael Jordan, James Worthy and Dean Smith. They’ve won 27 ACC regular season titles, 17 ACC tourney titles, competed in 18 Final Fours and captured five National Championships.
The question that begs to be answered is how did the program ascend to such rarefied heights. Read More »
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By Ali
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Kenny! No last name necessary. Say it on any playground in NYC and everybody knows who you’re talking about. Even the young cats who are on the come up, if they ball on the asphalt of the concrete jungle’s five boroughs, they’ve heard about the legend of Kenny Anderson.
In the most recent issue of Bounce Magazine, #21, we sat down with Kenny to unearth the story of his formative years. To really understand how the playground gave us one of the greatest phenoms in NYC history and hear from the man, in his own words, you need to cop the issue immediately. Read More »
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By Ali
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It seems unfathomable that a point guard who led his team to three straight NCAA Championship games and two rings in four years would be underappreciated. But that is indeed the case with Robert Matthew Hurley, Jr. Read More »
Tags: adrian autrey, anderson hunt, anthony avent, arnold bernard, bob hurley sr., bobby hurley, brian reese, charles barkley, chris jent, chris webber, danny hurley, david rivers, eric montross, fab five, grant hill, greg anthony, jamal mashburn, Jason Kidd, jerry walker, john stockton, karlton hines, kenny anderson, lenny wilkins, luther wright, magic johnson, malik sealy, Michael Jordan, penny hardaway, rodney rogers, St. Anthony's, terry dehere
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By Ali
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He stood 6′8″ carrying a chiseled 240 pounds. By the time he left the Unversity of Kentucky for the NBA, the world knew him as the “Monster Mash.”
During the intense game action that went down between the lines, whether it was on asphalt strewn with broken glass, Rupp Arena or on the NBA stage, he was always a textbook example of versatility. Pulling up from 23 feet to bang a three, dominating in the post, snatching rebounds or running the show in the open court, the man could do it all. And then some. Read More »
Tags: adrain autry, billy donovan, bob oliva, brian reese, delray brooks, derrick phelps, drazen petrovic, jamal mashburn, Jason Kidd, jerry west, jimmy jackson, khalid reeves, larry bird, Michael Jordan, reggie lewis, rick pitino, shawnelle scott, the fab five, the gauchos, tom murray
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