President of Iceland attends Bucks game

Photo: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Miami Heat big man Omer Yurtseven, who has already missed each of the team’s regular-season games, is expected to undergo surgery on his injured left ankle this week, barring a last-minute change in plans, according to Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald. Yurtseven is in…

Welcome to another installment of Hoops, Rap and Everything Black, a weekly column that zeroes in on the two fundamental components of SLAM—hoops and rap—while threading in other aspects of the vibrant tapestry of Black culture. Let’s get it. Quiet as it’s kept, Osman Bangura’s fingerprints are all over the…

Former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce has outlined a scenario where he would consider LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time (GOAT). Pierce believes that if James, at 39 years old, can lead the struggling Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship from the ninth seed in the…

Photo: nba.com The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) ratified Wednesday the league’s newest Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) which was described as the one that “will ensure labor peace through the remainder of this decade.” The brand-new CBA will take full effect starting in Jul. 1 this year…

Photo: YouTube.com As the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks are set to collide on Sunday for the Conference Semis, Charles Oakley can only feel nostalgic of his inclusion on the heated rivalry which started in the late 90s. The retired muscling cager recalled the Knicks-Heat conflict as something…

Photo: NBA History/Twitter Danny Ainge says that former Phoenix Suns head coach Paul Westphal turned their 1993 First Round Playoff series around with a humorous halftime speech during Game 3. (via Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles): “In the First Round of the playoffs, we’re playing the Lakers. They’re…