‘Lefty Kobe’ denied chance at 2024 Paris Olympics
Last summer, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson took the basketball world by storm with a game — and a face — that eerily resembled the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant. This summer, the […]
NBA draft brings in new class of role models
This week, 58 basketball players will reach the highest level of the sport when they are selected in the 2023 NBA draft. And when we look up in about a […]
NBA journey ending for Turkoglu, Mohammed
Two of the longest-tenured players in the NBA, a pair who played for a total of 13 teams over a combined 32 seasons, have both reached the end of the […]
Benzema: Best in the world?
The college football season is going strong and the NBA season is just starting, which means a lot of today and tomorrow’s sports debates are going to be variations of […]
‘Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant would love Islam’
In a recent episode of “The Deen Show,” a conversation with Imam Abu Taubah about polygyny in Islam evoked references to Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, two megastar athletes whose […]
It’s Too Soon to Give Up on No. 1 Pick Nail Yakupov
If the NBA held its young stars-in-training to the same standard as the NHL, Kobe Bryant would have been sent packing by the Lakers after his second year in the […]
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