Unwritten guidelines are present in basketball fandom. Is being a fan of a player over a team politically correct? Maybe this shouldn’t be exposed to the world, but perhaps it should. My grandfather – J.D. Marshall – was a flawed individual. He never won “Husband of the Year”...

There’s no way know for sure if Titus Young Sr. hit rock bottom within the past seven days or so, but he’s at least standing on the doorstep. In less than a week’s time, the former Boise State and Detroit Lions wideout was arrested for a DUI, released, arrested again for attempting...

Rarer than a four-leaf clover, Chris Andersen is a living testament of taking full advantage of a third lease on life. The same blessing a young man 1,000 miles north prays for every day from his jail cell. Slightly hungover about three weeks ago, I decided to force myself out of bed Saturday morning...

The Rockets clinching their first playoff birth since 2009 wasn’t odd. It was how they did so. Tied at 98 with the Phoenix Suns with regulation ticking away, James Harden launched what proved to be the always entertaining game winning missed three pointer. That’s because Jermaine O’Neal...

Credit: UNT Hundreds of items are littered throughout my unwritten bucket list. Pipe dreams like going to NBA All Star Weekend, visiting Dubai, having work published in Rolling Stone, you know, stuff like that. One meaning more than most happens to be meeting and having a full-fledged conversation with...

My yard was everything to me growing up. It was my Madison Square Garden, where I dreamed of being “Like Mike” and on rare occasions nailed the game-winning bucket in games of two-on-two. My grandma would occasionally act as the human scoreboard, even counting down the waning seconds, never...

Change comes about in two ways. Either it’s forced upon you, or you force it. In the NBA this season, there’ve been a host of changes, as there are every year. The NBA is a makeover league. One predicated on who can look the prettiest, who can make the biggest splash, who can outdo the...

Leave it to Marvin Gaye to turn the National Anthem into a full-fledged love song. On this day 30 years ago, Marvin Gaye delivered his rendition of the ”Star Spangled Banner” at the 1983 NBA All Star Game, a version that has since gone on to become one of the staple deliveries of its kind...

There are so many forms of awesome in this pic that I don’t want to even waste words trying to build it up. Ready? Here it goes. 1. Dr. J’s mini-fro so aerodynamically proportioned here, it’s not even funny. That’s the thing, though. Was there any NBA player who enjoyed their...

Like most men, having a man-cave is important. Women dream of their wedding days. Men dream of having the most awesome man-caves equipped with endless amounts of beer, recliners, a pool table, the largest TV humanly possible with surround sound and, in my case, the dopest art affordable covering the...

Getting lost in random YouTube videos has become the new “Sunday walk in the park.” What this says about society, I’m not really sure, but I’ll tell you one thing walks in the park fail to provide: awesome highlight reels of Shaquille O’Neal while he was at LSU. Three reasons...

Perhaps you’ve heard the most recent edition of the greatest podcast in the history of podcasts, The Unsportsmanlike Conduct Show. Perhaps you haven’t. A recurring topic on this week’s show centered around Seattle Seahawks defensive back Richard Sherman. You see, TSFJ – well,...