Today we salute the NBA longshots. These are the guys who have defied the odds to earn spots on NBA rosters. They probably weren’t heavily recruited coming out of high school, and many of them certainly weren’t pursued by the traditional college basketball powerhouses. But somehow, they excelled at their … Read more
Based on some of the results of past NBA Draft proceedings, even the most fervent critics of NBA General Managers and Scouts would have to admit that, with very few exceptions, projecting a player’s level of success in the league is an inexact science. This was the case even when … Read more
Today we honor those basketball cats with the peripheral vision, the ability and desire to deliver the ball to teammates when and where they want it. These are the guys who “play well with others”, the ones whose teammates will expend the extra effort to get open, confident that it won’t … Read more
Scorers. They rule the NBA. They shoot more. They score more. They get paid more. Their moves are copied on playgrounds. Coaches design game plans around them. They sell more jerseys. Win or lose, they get mentioned in the post-game wrap-ups and media accounts. They take the shots with the … Read more
NCAA college basketball teams began practicing in preparation for the upcoming 2017-18 season on September 29th, which makes this the right time for another trivia quiz designed to test your college basketball acumen, this one with an emphasis on the 2016-17 Division 1 season. We always try to give the … Read more
Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of NBA player movement during the Summer of 2017. There was a flurry of activity in early July, then things slowed down considerably. Still, some of the league’s top players will have new addresses for the 2017-18 NBA season while others are still … Read more
Let’s try this again with Volume 3 – perhaps the easiest of the bunch so far, especially if you’re a true fan of the Golden State Warriors. For this set of questions, the second half of the quiz is designed to test one’s knowledge of the Golden State Warriors who … Read more
Here’s another (more interactive) trivia quiz to test your hoops acumen. If you’re not a basketball fan or historian, you can guess the answers and probably rival the results of those who are. If you are a casual basketball fan, you’ll likely know the answers to a few of these … Read more
Here’s a short trivia quiz designed to test your knowledge of basketball minutiae. As this quiz at times to takes on a decidedly old-school slant, a few of these questions will be unfair to non-basketball historians – especially those under a certain age – while others will be unfair to everyone. Your … Read more
