It was game four of 2-on-2 this past Saturday. After having scored eight points in a row, I was struggling. I was gassed and couldn’t find my wind. Hands on my knees, stripped of energy, I pleaded to my brother, my teammate, slow it down! An hour and a half before I had been bent … Read more
Congrats to the Mavs and their first Championship! Well deserved! Superbly played! So many were beyond excited by the outcome of Sunday’s game and many weren’t even Dallas Mavericks fans. No doubt the Mavericks bandwagon was filled beyond capacity here in the NBA Finals. When there was no more room, not even one inch of … Read more
The skeptics doubted, but Mr. June knew. They applauded his individual talents, while questioning his ability to carry a team, but Mr. June knew. At the start of the 1991 NBA Finals, the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers were favored, but Mr. June knew. After losing Game 1 of that Finals series, the critics … Read more
The year was 1993. The Chicago Bulls had just won their third NBA Championship in a row, the first team to do so in 27 years. For the third consecutive year Michael Jordan was named the most valuable player (MVP) of the NBA Finals. In that Finals series against the Phoenix Suns, Jordan averaged an NBA Finals record 41 points per game, and still grabbed 8.5 rebounds per game and dished out 6.3 assists.