(ThyBlackMan.com) Lebron James now has the ring he’s been seeking for a long time. But there is another way in which he stands out from the mass of Black athletes: he is harnessing his own financial prowess instead of passing it all across to the white corporate establishment. Most of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I just spent this past Saturday night through Monday morning at the Butts County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Department’s jail in beautiful Jackson, Georgia. Leaving my weekend job at a very popular shopping outlet I was stopped by a sheriff who was very concerned about how I was failing “maintain a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Upon entering the 18th floor offices at the Atlanta Hawks headquarters in downtown Atlanta I got the sense that there was no pressure on the team to make a solid pick tonight with the 23rd overall pick. The Hawks staff and other members of the media were all laid ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I grew up in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980’s to mid-’90’s and have many great memories of a childhood mostly spent playing, eating and breathing sports. When I wasn’t at P.S. 282 park playing everything from the prerequisite basketball to baseball to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Congratulations to LeBron James and the Miami Heat on their most recent NBA title. LeBron carried the team to victory in glorious fashion, securing the regular season MVP award, the NBA title and Finals MVP trophy in one gigantic swoosh. Oh yea, he had a triple double in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) LeBron James won his first NBA championship last night as the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games. James was the MVP of The Finals and for the time being silenced many of his critics who range from Cleveland to anywhere a basketball can be bounced. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When you think great winners in basketball some names automatically come to mind: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Larry Bird. How about Mario Chalmers, starting point guard for the 2011-’12 NBA champion Miami Heat? Not exactly who you had in mind huh? Last night Mr. Chalmers joined an ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) By mid summer NBA fans from all over the world will have to find a new bad guy to jeer because Lebron James, like it or not, will be a league champion. The Miami Heat are up three games to one over the Oklahoma City Thunder and as every ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in Chevez Ravine on April 18, 1958, nineteen years before I was born in Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. That being said I have never actually had a “hometown team” to follow. Growing up in New York City I had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While David Stern was being massaged by Michael Wilbon at halftime of game three of the NBA Finals on Sunday night I switched channels to watch the Cubs host the Boston Red Sox. Wrigley Field was packed as usual and despite both teams being under .500 and the game ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder are currently doing battle in the NBA Finals and the entire world seems to have an opinion on who is going to win. Is Lebron James is going to close or not close? Is Russell Westbrook a true enough point guard to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere down in Oklahoma, a band of dream killers are on the loose, led by Coach Scott Brooks, but features “three amigos.” These same ‘Amigos’ have destroyed the Lakers dream of capturing another NBA championship, hereby removing them from contention in the ‘Wild Wild West’ 2012 playoffs. The victory was ...