Trae Young: We play down to our competition vs. beatable teams

For three decades we’ve covered many amazing basketball characters, but some stand above the rest—not only because of their on-court skills (though those are always relevant), but because of how they influenced and continue to influence basketball culture, and thus influenced SLAM. Meanwhile, SLAM has also changed those players’ lives…

Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP Steve Nash has been fired by the Nets after two yers as a head coach. His former teammate Shawn Marion thinks that the two-time NBA MVP as a player should take an assistant coach role for a few years, despite having been a head coach…

Photo: Getty Images The Detroit Pistons have inked general manager Troy Weaver to a contract extension as first revealed by Shams Charania of The Athletic. Weaver has been in the franchise for the past two years, overseeing the said role and leading the franchise’s ongoing rebuild project. Despite the Pistons’…

Photo: Philadelphia 76ers/Twitter P.J. Tucker expressed surprise at being unexpectedly included in the James Harden trade to the Los Angeles Clippers. According to Tucker, the deal also caught Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid off guard, adding an element of unpredictability to the trade that affected multiple players. “I wasn’t expecting…

LeBron James was in high spirits on Sunday after achieving a remarkable 40-point performance in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 129-120 triumph over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The basketball star shared a video featuring Tiffany Gomas, the “viral plane lady” or “crazy plane lady,” during her well-known outburst earlier this year….

ESPN’s production team strangely omitted Chennedy Carter’s body check on Caitlin Clark in their highlight reel of the Chicago Sky-Indiana Fever match. Regrettably, Carter’s deliberate and dirty cheap shot on Clark was the most talked-about incident of the game. Following a verbal exchange with Clark during the previous play, Carter…