Kenneth Faried and the breakout season that wasn’t
The beginning of the NBA playoffs last weekend marked the end of a regular season that was both fruitful and frustrating for Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried. Last summer, […]
2015 NBA Playoffs: 7 Muslims to Watch
The globalization of the National Basketball Association has been a multi-layered process: part geographic, part linguistic, part stylistic and part philosophical. Not only has the league that was born in […]
Abdul-Wahad on Islam, France and Charlie Hebdo
If you’ve become an NBA fan in the last 20 years or so, it might be difficult to imagine the league without the presence of players from France. In the […]
Kanter traded at NBA deadline, joins Waiters in OKC
Three months ago, controversy brought Enes Kanter and Dion Waiters together. It was back in November when Waiters, a third-year shooting guard with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, became a magnet […]
Basketball stars pay tribute to Chapel Hill murder victim
Deah Shaddy Barakat was a man of varied interests and talents: The second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry started a successful fundraiser aimed at […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on ‘Meet the Press’
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, arguably the greatest basketball player in history and one of the world’s most prominent Muslim athletes, talked about extremist Islamic violence, Islamophobia, and how it all impacts true […]
Blood Clots Put Teletovic’s NBA Career in Jeopardy
In the past six months or so, I’ve become closely acquainted with the dangers of blood clots in the lungs. Over the summer, a close family member wound up in […]
Waiters Is Thriving With the Thunder
Since being traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Jan. 5, Muslim American basketball pro Dion Waiters has been showing more frequent flashes of the star […]
Abdul-Jabbar Has Mixed Feelings About MLK Day
Sometimes it’s hard to believe the “dumb jock” stereotype persists when you have counterexamples as big and as brainy as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The 67-year-old New Yorker is a giant in […]
Cavaliers Trade Waiters to Thunder
Just when it looked like Dion Waiters was finding his niche and settling into an important role with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 23-year-old shooting guard was traded on Monday to […]
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