My Finals Memory: Push-Off? Your Face is a Push-Off!
Photo: Elliott/flickr I may have grown up a Timberwolves fan, but like every other late-80s/early-90s baby I was also secretly a Michael Jordan fan. In fact, the three films I was raised on (In no...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: The Round Mound of Rebound
clappstar | Flickr Most of the memories of basketball I have from my childhood merge in my brain like some super-montage. “Roundball Rock” is inevitably playing in the background, I’m seeing a lot of...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: The Step Over
“I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger.” – Allen Iverson Iverson said this during his divorce case in 2012 and we all shook our heads in dismay. Has it come to this? Iverson, who according to a...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: When Dwyane Wade Was Dwyane Wade
It’s not often that an NBA title is anything other than an apex. Dirk Nowitzki shook off various career-poisoning labels when his Mavericks outmatched the Heat in 2011; LeBron James did the same in...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Call it a Comeback
In the summer of 2008, I was living in New York City whilst working two different internships between my junior and senior year of college. A friend from school and I shared one of those college dorm...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Seven-Foot Tall Boys
In January of 2011, I was invited to become a contributor at The Two Man Game, writing about the Dallas Mavericks. Although I didn’t know the Mavericks much better than any other team in the league, I...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Flu Game Flashbacks
What I remember most is the soothing stench of Ozark lake water, the familiar feel of mildewed shag carpet between the tips of my toes and fingers, and sitting so close to the television that I could...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Foreign Relations
It’s June 6th, 2010. I’m sitting in the patio area of a random bar in downtown Toronto with my parents. It was one of those places that would let minors in as long as they were accompanied by an...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Michael Jordan’s Team Wins His Third Ring
I think we all knew it was coming. I know no one thought it’d come like that. Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals was my second live professional basketball game, a ridiculously generous birthday gift from...
View ArticleMy Finals Memory: Schrödinger’s Courtney
It is June 7th, 2009, and Hedo Turkoglu is going to inbound the ball. Courtney Lee is at the top of the key. Dwight Howard is setting a screen for J.J. Redick as Rashard Lewis is running up the middle...
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