April/May 2022

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FOUNDER/PUBLISHER Dennis S. Page EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER David Schnur CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Adam Figman MANAGING EDITOR Susan Price Thomas VP, SOCIAL MEDIA Arvind Pitchai SENIOR CONTENT PRODUCER Franklyn Calle DIRECTOR, WSLAM Camille Buxeda CONTENT PRODU
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The Sixth Man
THE NBA TURNED 75 YEARS old this season. That’s a crazy amount of history, and I think I speak for most 30-somethings (and younger) when I say that it’s both cool and weird that there are decades of elite hoops that were played before my time or when
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Listen Up
FOR THE VERY FIRST time, Merl Code is finally ready to speak his truth. It’s been three years since he and his co-defendants, Christian Dawkins and Jim Gatto, were found guilty of fraud, conspiracy and bribery back in 2019 after the FBI conducted an
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Neat And Chilled
IT WASN’T UNTIL RUSS Smith found himself surrounded by cherry trees, waterfalls and miles of bright-green foliage among the Fujian province in China that he began to truly appreciate the little things. Maybe it was the 62 points he dropped in his deb
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Slamadamonth
Every year, people declare the dunk contest dead. Every year, everyone watches the dunk contest. There are the misses, yes, new competitors trying to one-up previous contestants by ramping up the degree of difficulty to the point where—well hell, of
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Trash Talk
Need to make this [Bulls cover] a shirt. Sebastian Rivera via Instagram Yo THIS FIRE I JUST Fn screamed!!! So proud of you dude!! Candace Parker via Instagram Kah is the COOLEST player in the W right now. No contest. Michael burns via twitter Put som
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Sueños De Baloncesto
PUERTO RICO IS mostly known for its picturesque beaches and vibrant cobblestone streets, but beyond the swaying palm trees are countless outdoor basketball courts filled with kids hoping to one day fulfill their hoop dreams. And the island’s young gi
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One For The Books
IT’S BEEN SAID BY MANY people: Art should be dangerous. Dangerous in a manner that it should invoke and inspire you to re-imagine an established world. To challenge conventional thought. To re-envision what generations have developed in order to crea
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The Opening Tip
LEBRON JAMES IS SLOWLY earning consideration as the best player of all time. Remember, this thought is coming from a scribe who worships at the Church of Michael. That is, I don’t believe there will ever be another player with the charisma, talent, t
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The King Of Queen City
IT’S JUNE 24, 2019. THE beginning of the last “normal” summer that Americans—and the world—will experience in a long time. Nothing will be the same. But on this night, many die-hard hoops fans are glued to their television screens and phones while th
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Point Taken
ONE OF, IF NOT, THE most important connection that resides on the court lies between the point guard and his big man down low. Being able to effectively read one another’s movements, eyes, even predicting each other’s decisions before they’re made, a
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Ladies First
JUST TWO WEEKS before she cemented her name in Kentucky’s record books by becoming the program’s second all time leading scorer, senior guard Rhyne Howard admits over the phone in February that when she first arrived in Lexington, she “never thought
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THE HOTTEST TAKES ON THE LATEST IN THE NBA, PLUS INTERVIEWS, GAME BREAKDOWNS AND MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH NBA/WNBA PLAYERS, STYLISTS, DESIGNERS AND EVERYONE WHO MATTERS AT THE INTERSECTION OF FASHION AND HOOPS AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC AND YOU
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Crash The Board
IT’S A LITTLE AFTER 9 A.M. on the first Wednesday of March and Celtics forward Grant Williams can’t help but lean back in his Mavix M9 gaming chair and reflect on how appalled he was when news dropped the day prior that the New York Liberty had been
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75 Before ’94
SLAM was founded in 1994. It was right on time—those who remember the early days of SLAM think about the mid-’90s, a period of sports and music convergence perfectly encapsulated in the pages of this hip-hop-inspired basketball magazine. And the best
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Golden Nugget
IN THE PRE-LEAGUE PASS days of minimal cable channels and a national TV “schedule” that made it seem as though the NBA had five teams (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia) playing a round-robin, the exploits of Alex English and th
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Cameo Role
RECENT HOLLYWOOD blockbusters have got me considering options in alternate universes—Peter Parker-type ones, where I can see the Spidey meme lived out in real life. I’m not talking about the Metaverse, I’m talking about a temporary escape to the plac
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By Jq
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL members of New York’s own Jelly Fam now has his very own jelly. Literally. Like, real jelly. Farm-to-table grape jelly, to be exact. It’s still hard for Jersey-bred, Alabama junior Jahvon Quinerly, aka JQ, to fathom. Jelly Fam was
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Actively Black
THEIR NAMES ARE legend. Earl Lloyd. Chuck Cooper. Nat Clifton. They were the NBA’s first Black basketball players. And yet, their stories are far too often overlooked. The Actively Black x SLAM collaboration aims to change that, celebrating those thr
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Always Biy
JAYSON TATUM STRODE confidently into Capital One Arena in Washington DC wearing a green t-shirt with the words “Believe In Yourself” printed across his chest. Below the text was an image of Dennis Rodman’s iconic smiley face hairstyle—only his hair,
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Home Grown
AS NICK SMITH JR approached the stretch run of his senior season, he faced a dilemma familiar to many elite high school hoopers. He was eager to get to the next level, to test himself in college and move one step closer to a potential pro career. At
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Dream Girl
WHEN IT CAME TIME to make a college decision, Montverde Academy’s Janiah Barker narrowed her list of options to three: Ole Miss, South Carolina and Georgia. Barker, the top-ranked forward in the Class of 2022—No. 3 overall, according to ESPN—ultimate
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Tunnel Vision
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ADAM PANTOZZI; BRIAN BABINEAU / BOTH NBAE VIA GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY OF INDIANA PACERS; JOE MURPHY; KENNY GIARLA; MELISSA MAJCHRZAK; BARRY GOSSAGE (2); NATHANIEL S. BUTLER (2); KENT SMITH; JESSE D. GARRABRANT; @ THEHAPABLONDE
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Back To The Future
THERE WAS NEW ground. Fertile and untraversed. Then it was broken, stomped on by the debut of a sneaker that’s now celebrating 25 years of being in the spotlight. On the way to storming through the 1997 NCAA Tournament, Mike Bibby and the Arizona Wil
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Accidental Perfection
STEPHEN CURRY IS never stagnant. For him, growth is continuous, and that extends all the way from his jumper to his sneakers, as evidenced by his debut of the upcoming Curry 4 Flotro in Portland in February. “The Curry 4 Flotro was a true ‘happy acci
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@slamarchive
SLAM 71 JULY 2003 Was the hype too much? LeBron had yet to play a single NBA game when he appeared on his second SLAM cover. It should’ve been his third. We’d missed an opportunity a couple of years prior and weren’t about to play it cool for SLAM 71
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Frozen Moment
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Respect The Game
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