There aren’t many athletes that get to experience the 20th anniversary of their debut while still playing their sport at the top level – particularly in sports that require extreme physicality to thrive. Basketball, which requires a tremendous engine to get up and down the court as well as resilient joints from head to toe, […]
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NBA Player Participation Policy: Why Aren’t Basketball Franchises Allowed to Rest Their Star Players?
In the absolute vast majority of team sports, it would be unthinkable that league chiefs would involve themselves in team selection. Could you imagine the Football Association telling Pep Guardiola who he can and can’t pick for Manchester City? Could you fathom the NFL decreeing who the New York Jets should play at quarterback? (that […]
Free Agency: American Sports’ Own Transfer Window That Sees Billions of Dollars Changing Hands
Football fans based in European countries only get their appetite for transfer rumour and speculation sated twice a year. The sport’s transfer windows, one in June-September and the other in January, used to see feverish activity of players moving from one club to another, but these days the windows seem to be rather more sedate […]
Luka Doncic: The Gangly Kid Too Tall to Play Football Makes NBA History
If it was up to Luka Doncic, he probably wouldn’t have even started playing basketball – let alone make NBA history at the tender age of 21. In Slovenia and in Serbia – his father’s country of origin – football is very much the national sport, and so it was much to Doncic’s dismay that […]
March Madness: Everything You Need to Know About Basketball’s Springtime Extravaganza
It’s fair to say that the spring is a fantastic time for sports fans. The European football and NBA seasons are coming to a close, the Six Nations is up and running and the Formula One campaign is just kicking off. Cricket fans are also getting warmed up for the season ahead. And, in the […]