Being the prideful Garden State resident I try my non-artificially-tanned damndest to be-and trust me, each passing DVR’d minute of MTV and Bravo programming makes it harder and harder these days, I fully understand how crucial a last chance at basketball greatness in 2011-12 is for the great land of Newark. With the Brooklyn hopefuls… Continue reading
And there they sat: David Stern and Billy Hunter, looking like separated parents reconciling their differences for the kids, before a table of press. The announcement that the NBA will return on Christmas Day came after months of 16-hour work days and bitter negotiations. And I’m sure I speak for most of us when I… Continue reading
Christopher Wallace famously said, “”Either you’re slingin’ crack-rock, or you’ve got a wicked jump-shot.” The line is lauded for its grim realism to inner-city kids. Unfortunately, he forgot to mention there might be more stability in drugs than basketball.
[CLICK IMAGE TO READ] DREW: I found myself, after a Saturday night spent at $35 open bar, and a front step arrival of 6:00 am, stuck to my couch on Sunday like one of those gooey hand-shaped things you find in the fifty cent machines on the way out of supermarkets. Why did parents for… Continue reading
[CLICK IMAGE TO READ] “Greetings friends, readers, basketball fans and Kenny Smith’s wife…” What follows is a top to bottom recap of our favorite parts of the first half of the NBA season. We’re all enormous fans of the game over here at The Club, and it only makes sense to share that love with… Continue reading
On an early morning after a late night of work in the Madbury office, we groggily set out for Amsterdam Houses, home to an incredible light green 94-foot outdoor basketball sanctuary. As the rest of the Club started to show up, the pending wave of sleep that lingered above us was immediately expunged as our… Continue reading