The Over and Back NBA podcast is celebrating the NBA at 75 by rewatching some of the greatest Slam Dunk Contests in NBA history. The less said about the 1997 NBA slam-dunk contest the better. Sure, a ...
In December 1997, at age 17, I wrote an early-season review of the 1997 NBA rookie class for OnHoops.com, my second appearance on the site. I was a senior in high school, and I named the column “Dig ...
When The Athletic reached out to Nick Anderson and asked what it was like to play an NBA game with a red, white and blue American Basketball Association ball in 1997, he jokingly said he didn’t ...
Chicago Bulls great Scottie Pippen was impressed by Michael Jordan‘s “Flu Game” in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals is called “The Flu Game,” but Jordan was dealing with ...
Michael Jordan was disappointed the Chicago Bulls didn’t face the New York Knicks in the 1997 NBA playoffs after Patrick ...
After the 2016 NBA season, Tim Duncan decided to retire from the NBA after 19 years. At 40 years old, Duncan was the last player remaining from the 1997 draft class, and easily the best, as he'll go ...
NBA legend Dennis Rodman missed a Chicago Bulls shootaround during the 1997-98 season because he couldn’t find the keys to his truck. Rodman began acting aloof after Scottie Pippen made his return ...
The 1997 draft had an all-time great in Tim Duncan, a Hall of Fame swingman in Tracy McGrady and a Finals MVP in Chauncey Billups, but there was not an awful lot after that. No. 1 pick: Tim Duncan ...
Michael Jordan’s infamous “Flu Game” during the 1997 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz was revealed to really be the food-poisoning game during one of the final parts of the documentary series “The ...
No one tells Michael Jordan when he can or cannot play in a basketball game. That's why, on June 11, 1997, despite the warnings of his mother, Deloris Jordan, and team officials, a dramatically sick ...
With the NBA booming in the 1990s and women’s sports in the headlines following the 1996 Olympics, Commissioner David Stern felt it was time to start a professional women’s basketball league. For it ...
On Sunday, the San Antonio Spurs officially ended an era by retiring Tim Duncan's No. 21 jersey. Duncan, who retired in July, was the last player remaining from the 1997 draft class, and easily the ...