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LeBron James Is a Big Bike Guy July 17, 2024
About a decade ago, regular attendees of Miami’s monthly Critical Mass bike ride noticed one new (particularly tall) attendee: LeBron James, who began participating in the ride whenever his day job with the Miami Heat allowed it. ...
Can Steve Kerr Make Team USA Work Like a Dream? July 10, 2024
Steve Kerr has been around plenty of superstars in his career. He’s played alongside Michael Jordan and Tim Duncan, played for Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich, and coached Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. But even he was struck by the caliber of players...
The Father-Son Drama of LeBron and Bronny James June 26, 2024
Two years ago, during All-Star weekend, LeBron James told a reporter that he would spend the final year of his career, whenever it arrived, playing on the same team as his son. “Wherever Bronny is at, that’s where I’ll be,” he said. At the time, Bron...
The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Is Excellent June 26, 2024
Last Thursday, my soccer-obsessed 10-year-old son and I sat in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and witnessed 70,000 people humming the Argentine national anthem together. This was just before the first game of the Copa América, the South American so...
JJ Redick’s Media Studies June 24, 2024
JJ Redick was hired as the Lakers’ head coach after a series of interviews that began in May. But as Brian Windhorst pointed out, the résumé the Lakers were looking over was Redick’s Mind the Game podcast. Over nine episodes, Redick talked basketball...
Shohei Ohtani Is the GOAT June 03, 2024
Just over half a century ago, Major League Baseball introduced the designated hitter rule in the American League, consigning pitchers to the bench for half of each game. This year marks only the third since the National League adopted the still-contr...
Can a Podcast Change the Way Sports Are Covered? April 29, 2024
There comes a time in every sportswriter’s career when they realize they have no idea what they’re talking about. The game they watched as a child, it turns out, is far more complex than it appeared to be on television. The players and coaches speak ...
The End for LeBron and Steph Is Uncomfortably Close April 17, 2024
When a particular brand of greatness persists for more than two decades, as LeBron James’s career has, certain real-time moments can feel like inadvertent communes with the past. Watching James freely and calmly dismantle the New Orleans Pelicans on ...
Michael Jordan is the GOAT March 13, 2024
Last week, “We’re done with the 90’s,” trended on the social media platforms, especially over politically precarious TikTok. What’s it about? It’s a phrase mostly appended to unflattering clips of 1990s basketball, often used to discredit Michael Jor...
The Wait and Weight for Bronny James March 07, 2024
A fan wearing a white LeBron James Lakers jersey arrives well over an hour before tip-off. Another man sports a wine-colored LeBron Cavaliers jersey here at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, California. There are plenty of other James replicas on this Wedne...
Is It Time for LeBron James and the Lakers to Split? January 31, 2024
“You’ll love the stories.”That’s what I remember my dad telling me when he got us a subscription to Sports Illustrated around Christmas in 2001. I was only 11. The first cover I can remember featured Michael Jordan with his mouth wide open, eyes lock...
The Sublime Brilliance of Nikola Jokic June 02, 2023
Placing Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic within a matrix of his fellow basketball greats is no easy task. He racks up triple-doubles like Wilt Chamberlain, tosses no-look passes like Magic Johnson and launches high-release jumpers like Larry Bird, ...
The Playoffs: A Dispatch May 24, 2023
These years, the only basketball I watch is the playoffs, but I take them very seriously, because they’re so fleeting, dramatic, and sublime. I love the ever-changing narratives. The pregame handshakes. The postgame interviews. The controversial twee...
Twilight of the Highlight Idols May 02, 2023
When you’re living under an oligarchy, it’s easy to call for reform—revolution, even. When things get more democratic, decisions get harder, and you might learn about yourself.So goes the life of an NBA fan. For the past ten years there have been two...
The Incredible Story of How Nike Signed LeBron James April 17, 2023
It was a Monday morning in late March. Normally, LeBron James would have been in homeroom at St. Vincent, dressed in school clothes, with a backpack containing books strapped over his shoulders. Instead, he was in a locker room at a rec center in the...
The King and His Scoring Crown February 10, 2023
For a brief moment, LeBron James, fading yet balanced, hung in the air alongside history. That second after the ball left his fingertips and fell through the bottom of the net was all it took for the past to accumulate into the present, for the two p...
What I Think About LeBron Breaking My Record February 09, 2023
First, the facts: LeBron James passed my scoring record and now is the leading scorer in NBA history. It takes unbelievable drive, dedication, and talent to survive in the NBA long enough to rack up that number of points when the average NBA career l...
LeBron James’s Chase for the Scoring Record February 03, 2023
Before Tuesday night’s game between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James stood a hundred and seventeen points away from passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record for points scored in a career. James’s chase of Abdul-Jabbar down the...
