Also ranks #5 on The 45+ Best NBA Utah Jazz Shooting Guards Also ranks #12 on The Best Undrafted NBA Players Ever Also ranks #14 on The Best White Small Forwards Of All Time Photo: Los Angeles Clippers Instagram 10 21 votes Nicolas Batum Even as he ages, Nic Batum continu...
“Man, that’s why he’s one of the greatest players to ever play this game,” the Grizzlies’ Marcus Smart said. “You’ve got to respect it and tip your cap. That’s not easy to do. Not everybody can do that. He’s still going and he’s not missing a beat.”...
And then there are some like Duncan Keith and Jason Spezza who formally announced their retirement. With a new NHL season ahead, let’s take a look at some of the oldest players currently in the league and some of the oldest to ever play. Who are the oldest active NHL players? ...
Kevin Willis: 41 years, 252 days(May 15, 2004, San Antonio at L.A. Lakers) Both Haslem and Abdul-Jabbar’s last games came in the NBA Finals, making them the oldest two players to play in the Finals, followed by Herb Williams. Udonis Haslem: 42 years, 363 days(June 7, 2023, Mia...
At 5’7”—a full foot under league average, and two full feet shorter than Gheorghe Muresan—Spud Webb is tied for fourth place on the list of shortest-ever NBA players. But he is the lightest player in league history, listed at a mere 133 pounds. Despite his small stature, howeve...
The youngest Olympian to ever win a gold medal, according to the IOC, was Marjorie Gestring, a diver from California, who at 13 years old took the springboard title for the U.S. diving team in 1936 at the Berlin Games. However, another young Olympian — an unknown boy in Paris, possi...
According to authoritative reporting by Sports Illustrated, approximately 78 percent of NFL players either go bankrupt or face some serious financial stress within two years of ending their playing careers, while 60 percent of NBA players are broke within five years of retiring from the game. More...
The Pistons began as a corporate team in 1941 for the Zollner Piston manufacturing plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The team was part of the NBL and all its early players also worked at the plant. The Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957 after Fort Wayne became too small to host an NBA team...
(AP) — A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump Sunday and landing 13,500 feet (4,100 meters) later at a northern Illinois airport. "Age is just a number," Dorothy Hoffn...
(著名的)basketball players in NBA. When he was a child, lots of 3.(孩子) from rich families laughed at him at school because he was a black person. But Dennis was strong and 4.(勇敢的). He liked 5.(打) basketball and played it alone after school every day. When he grew up, ...