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The good, the bad & the ugly behind this amazing backwards buzzer beater

This is one of those Oh-Em-Gee, “did that really just happen?” moments. No doubt there are thousands of these absurd types of shots attempted and missed each day around the world. But on the extremely...

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Never Make Excuses

Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden, who passed away just months shy of his 100th birthday left behind a legacy of his greatness as a coach and mentor, inspirer, and merchant of success....

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Success through Failure

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life....

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Get this child prodigy into the All-Star 3-point shootout

Wow, this wonder kid is special! I don’t even care how many off-camera misses there might have been to put together a compilation like this. However you look at it, this pint-sized child prodigy has...

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50 years, number 23, 1 legacy

We believe this legend is the greatest sportsman of all time. We appreciate what an outrageously big call that may appear to be, but it hasn’t been made in haste. There is no man that elevated and...

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Let’s call it a DRAW?

We got engaged in an interesting discussion the other day about the validity of draws in the sporting arena. The splitting of competition points supposes that the notion of ‘an honourable draw’ is...

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Sportsmanship this great makes everyone a winner

This incredibly heartwarming story out of a high school in El Paso, Texas, displays sportsmanship so touching that it was shown on ESPN’s Sportscenter and went viral pretty soon after. An altruistic...

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Beware the dangers of Ego- Jim Buss and the Lakers

Long-time and highly successful Lakers owner Jerry Buss (who sadly passed away in early 2013) handed over the reigns to his son Jim Buss in 2011, the year of Phil Jackson’s retirement from coaching. In...

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Train your way to greatness- the legendary Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant’s record and success in the NBA is second to one. Kobe is synonymous with the Lakers, the team he has played for since he entered the NBA in 1996 directly from high school. There are so...

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How Phil Jackson, the greatest ever NBA coach, builds winning cultures

Los Angeles Lakers fans are success-hungry. They’ve acquired quite an appetite for championships, and you can understand why. Spearheaded by the ‘Black Mamba’, Kobe Bryant, they are unarguably this...

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