Entering the 1999-00 season, the Los Angeles Lakers were determined to take the next step toward elite status as NBA champions. While Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to develop their chemistry, head coach Phil Jackson and general manager Mitch Kupchak put together a supporting cast filled with savvy veterans.
With the NFL action at a pause following Super Bowl 58 and the offseason upon us, it’s the perfect time to start saving special dates on the calendar for staple events in South Florida.
This list will include a number of players from the era of Michael Jordan whose careers started out brilliantly, but for whatever reason — tragedy, circumstances, or other — never reached the lofty levels people expected of them. Enjoy!
Entering the 1999-00 season, the Los Angeles Lakers were determined to take the next step toward elite status as NBA champions. While Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to develop their chemistry, head coach Phil Jackson and general manager Mitch Kupchak put together a supporting cast filled with savvy veterans.
The program has just one national championship to date. However, the Wolverines have finished runner-up on six occasions. That's even more baffling considering the number of great, even legendary, players the program has produced.
The Miami Heat are one of the premier teams in the Eastern Conference. Winning two championships in the last decade and constantly making deep runs in the playoffs, the Heat have established themselves as a top team in the East.
The BIG3 kicked off the 2022 season this past weekend, and some former New York Knicks played a big role in the first batch of games. Entering its fifth
The Charlotte Hornets are a budding team at the moment, thanks to a young core of future stars led by LaMelo Ball. Ball was drafted by the franchise with the hopes of him taking off and becoming an All-Star, and he has answered the call by making his first All-Star Team this season and placing the Hornets in a position to make the playoffs.
The 1992 Cavaliers were a team in transition, in a league in transition, in a nation in transition, in a world in transition. Against this backdrop, they authored one of the most memorable seasons in franchise history.
Since it's inception in the 1988 NBA expansion, the Miami Heat have only had 20 first-round draft picks. This bodes well for the team and reflects their success following the first few years of growing pains. How many of these first round picks can you name?
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