With apologies to Ella Fitzgerald, for most of the modern NBA’s young gunners, life just don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling-the gaudy jewelry, tattoos, cars and other assorted flash-and-dash accouterments that make it clear to everyone that a major league “baller” is in the house. Not so for Sacramento Kings [click on title to continue reading...]
Redemption is a common theme in sports. Everyone loves to see a favorite player come back from being down, to grab themselves by the bootstraps to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, yada, yada, yada. But the question for new Sacramento Kings head coach Eric Musselman is how do you redeem yourself from a [click on title to continue reading...]
Oakland Athletics Vice President & General Manager Billy Beane
Baseball is many things to many people – sport, pastime, and sometimes a way of life. It is certainly all of those things to Oakland Athletics Vice President and General Manager Billy Beane, the man behind the team’s remarkable on-field success over much of the last decade. [click on title to continue reading...]
A lot has changed with the Sacramento Kings since their arrival here in 1985. The team has lived a roller coaster of failure and success, gradually evolving from the NBA’s version of a Siberian gulag into one of its most respected franchises. Along the way, players, coaches, owners and even arenas have come and gone [click on title to continue reading...]
For Kevin Johnson, life has always been about setting up the people around him to do well. During his years as one of basketball’s truly great point guards, first for the University of California Golden Bears and then later with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and Phoenix Suns, few players in the game were more adept [click on title to continue reading...]