adidas Basketball debuts the Dame 9 “Oak Tree”

words, photography & design // Nick DePaula When SLAM #41 dropped in April of 2000, we had just witnessed perhaps the greatest Dunk Contest performance of all time. Vince Carter was famously a sneaker free agent in just his second season, and he laced up the white and red AND1…

Photo: Toronto Raptors Fred VanVleet is fired up to be joining the Houston Rockets telling TMZ Sports that after spending the past seven seasons with the Toronto Raptors, he’s “looking forward” to the new sitch. VanVleet explained his excitement over his new 3-year, $130 million deal with the Rockets while…

Former NBA player Willie Cauley-Stein has opened up about his battle with addiction, revealing the life-threatening consequences he faced. In a candid interview with Kyle Tucker of The Athletic, Cauley-Stein shared how his addiction to bootleg Percocet, which was unknowingly laced with fentanyl, nearly cost him his life. He admitted…

Lonzo Ball, sidelined for nearly two years with persistent knee injuries, is showing signs of progress, raising hopes for a potential return to running in January, according to Bulls head coach Billy Donovan. Despite being ruled out for the entire 2023-24 season, the 26-year-old point guard is actively engaged in…

Despite a second-round exit in the NCAA tournament and losing star seniors Ana Llanusa, Taylor Robertson and Madi Williams, Oklahoma second-year head coach Jennie Baranczyk confidently says the team’s “foundation” is already set in stone. “I think we’re lucky that that’s been the foundation, that it’s just the next people…

Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Robert Horry was ejected from his son’s basketball game on Friday night for heckling the referees, and TMZ Sports has video of the incident. The video starts with Horry, mid-sentence, screaming “You suck!” while standing in the bleachers: Check out our Latest…