August/September 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 DIRECTOR, CONTENT Franklyn Calle DIRECTOR, WSLAM Camille Buxeda CONTENT PRODUCER Ma
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The Sixth Man
ALL PROFESSIONAL basketball players have different stages of their careers. Some are fun and exciting, like the summer following a superstar’s first championship. Some are difficult, like the beginning of a long recovery from an unfortunate injury. S
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The Opening Tip
IT SURE SEEMS LIKE THERE’S A LOT more player-fan interaction in the League than there used to be. And not all in a good way. No, we haven’t seen another Malice in the Palace (don’t ever want another of those), but we’ve seen players come close to los
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Lift Off
HE FIRST GOT A glimpse of what being a professional was like during the draft process. Tari Eason, a 6-8 forward from Seattle, WA, worked out with about 10 teams before being selected 17th overall by the Houston Rockets. The traveling from city to ci
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Golden Ticket
BACK IN APRIL, THE Warriors announced the launch of Golden State Entertainment, a subsidiary company focused on creating original content at the intersection of sports and entertainment. GSE will produce everything, from documentaries to collaboratin
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Now More Than Ever
TITLE IX FILLED A void—the gaping hole in the fabric of the Civil Rights Act (1964) to be exact: Title VII ended workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, while Title IV prohibited discimination in federally funded entities, but failed to mention
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Lock-down Defense
ONCE UPON A TIME, you stored your trading cards in a big binder—filled with stacks of sleeves specifically designed to protect each card. You brought that binder everywhere. You carried it in your backpack. You lugged it to your friends’ houses. You
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In The Paint
REGGIE MILLER’S hands extending like prayer over Penny Hardaway and the wings of an angel; Bill Russell against the backdrop of the Milky Way; Kobe in Crayola contemplation. These are a few of the images in the collaged work of artist Bradley Ward. B
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Night Night
CHAMPAGNE SPRAYED from every direction. Players jumped around, danced, hugged, screamed, drank, puffed cigars. The Golden State Warriors were champions. Again. And back in the visiting locker room at TD Garden, it was time to celebrate. Amid that cel
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The Franchise
IT WAS IN NOVEMBER, THE day before the Toronto Raptors were set to play the Boston Celtics at TD Garden, that the then-20-year-old deemed to be the future of the team and the man who helped set the foundation for the franchise in the mid-’90s coincid
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The Thrill Of It All
WILL BARTON is on an adventure. Reflection, sedulous hard work and his quiet self-confidence are his guides. His family, though, provides him with reminders of his achievements, ones that only a select few humans could ever attain. But now we’ve come
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Game Of Joy
IT’S 2:30 P.M. PACIFIC TIME and Stefanie Dolson just left practice in preparation for the Liberty’s next game against the L.A. Sparks. There are an endless number of things she could do with her free time, going to the beach or shopping on Rodeo Driv
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One For The Money
As the League celebrates its 75th anniversary, there’s quite a few Top 75 lists out there already. In fact, we’ve got quite a few of our own, with SLAM’s Top 75 Players of All Time Special Issue and our Top 75 NBA Teams of All Time Special Issue (hea
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The Chosen Ones
TRACY MCGRADY CAME up with the vision for the Ones Basketball League (OBL) in the fall of last year. The Hall of Famer has always been a visionary, but as a father, he noticed that his own teenage sons weren’t watching the game the same way people us
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Hoop Dreams
VALENTYN DUBAS WAS sure Russian soldiers were going to kill him. The soldiers were drunk. They detained him and a friend. Had him on his knees in the street with a gun to his head, interrogating him. Dubas insisted he was buying boards to fix windows
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2021-22 dome Shots
GARY DINEEN/NBAEVIA GETTYIMAGES; RONHOSKINS; KATHAR INELOTZE/GETTY IMAGES ■
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One 'N Done
GROWING UP, BASKET ball was everything to Alexander Martin Jr and his younger brother Christian. They started playing in elementary school and fell in love immediately. They lived just a few minutes away from Oracle Arena in Oakland and would frequen
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The 2021-22 All-LEAGUEFITS Teams
CLARKS ON: MELISSA MAJCHRZAK / ALL NBAE VIA GETTY IMAGES. VANDER BILT: JORAN JOHNSON / ALL NBAE VIA GETTY IMAGES ■
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History In The Making
THERE WERE LEVELS to the crowning moment (so far) of Simeon Wilcher’s high school basketball career. Back in March, Wilcher led his Roselle Catholic squad to a 61-58 victory over Camden HS in the New Jersey Tournament of Champions final. That this wa
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The Soul is Still on Ice
THE THING IS, IT SEEMS like everything that has to do with Allen Iverson just feels like family. These words right here come easy as breathing. Like even the need to over-explain the significance of SLAM’s relationship with No. 3 is unnecessary becau
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@slamarchive
Everybody loves an underdog. Everybody loves a story about hard work paying off, about never giving in. Everyone loves a little guy who can hoop on the big stage, a dude—built like you and me—who can defeat the Goliaths, defy the odds and inspire us
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Ignition
A SPARK SETS OFF A burst of sudden force. Whoever named Los Angeles’ WNBA team must have caught a glimpse of the future because Lisa Leslie set off a spark on July 30, 2002, when she became the first woman in WNBA history to dunk in a game. She was s
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Trash Talk
He sounds like he was born and bred in the Dee. The one thing he has to know [is] that the city will always love and take care of him. Because it’s Detroit vs Everybody… Antoine Johnson via YouTube This dude can hoop. If Detroit can build a team arou
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Just Another Day
June 2, 2022 Celtics 120, Warriors 108 Chase Center, San Francisco THE FIRST HALF OF THE much-hyped Warriors-Celtics NBA Finals lived up to expectations, for sure. Both teams came out on fire, particularly from downtown, with the Warriors shooting 42
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Slamadamonth
MAY 22, 2022 AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER DALLAS, TX I can’t speak of this from personal experience, but when getting dunked on, there must be a moment when you realize, “Oh s&*t, I’m about to get dunked on.” Watch enough games, enough replays of enough

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