Basketball
Kobe Bryant Reveals How He Handled Starting Just 7 Games in His First Two NBA Seasons
18 All-Star selections. 11 All-NBA First Team appearances. 5 NBA Championships. With all the incredible accolades Kobe Bryant accumulated over his 20-season NBA career, people tend to forget that it [...]
How Kobe Bryant Mentors Jayson Tatum to Become the Next Mamba
Jayson Tatum had a remarkable rookie season. Playing at age 19 for much of his inaugural pro campaign, the Boston Celtics small forward averaged 13.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per [...]
Why USA Basketball Wants Youth Coaches to Stop Using Zone Defenses
Zone defenses don't develop great defenders. That’s why USA Basketball recently recommended zone defenses be avoided for youth players between the ages of 7 and 11. “Removing zone defense from [...]
Why ‘Reactive Agility’ Is Important for Athletes—And How You Can Train It
When people think of agility, they think of changing directions. Cutting, stopping, going backwards, veering, that sort of thing. To me, agility is more than that. Agility is about applying [...]
LeBron James’s Insane Conditioning Drill
We all know LeBron James is a freak of nature. The 6-foot-8, 250-pounder can run like a gazelle, and his body fat percentage was probably somewhere in the negatives; yet [...]
How to Master the Basketball Jab Step
For most young basketball players, the ability to leave a defender in the dust is a performance goal. But few are fast and agile enough to blow by a defender [...]
5 Steps to Becoming a Better Finisher Around The Rim
Finishing around the basket. Consistently converting on your close-range opportunities can help you fill up the stat sheet in a hurry and open things up for your teammates. There are [...]
Getting Into the Boxing Ring Against Giannis Antetokounmpo Looks Like a Nightmare
Giannis Antetokounmpo is having himself an offseason. First there was the revelation that the Milwaukee Bucks star looks as swoll as he has his entire career, and now we have [...]
Duke’s Prized Recruit Zion Williamson Would Already be the Second Heaviest Player in the NBA
Zion Williamson is set to begin his freshman season at Duke in the fall, with the prized recruit joining forces with fellow freshman R.J. Barrett to create one of the [...]
Giannis Antetokounmpo is Looking Mighty Jacked
You wouldn't call Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo "skinny," not in the way you'd refer to, say, Kevin Durant's build, but the Greece native has never exactly been defined by [...]