NBA Hipsters

Some NBA players that you've probably never heard of. We knew them before they became All-Stars. [email protected] & Twitter.com/NBAHipsters

[23-jumpstreet]

[nbagifstory]

[vineydelnegro]

RIP Moses

[0ccupyallstreets]

[simplybasketball]

[thegrandarchives]

[lovingbasketball]

[nbagifstory]

Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp — Seattle SuperSonics

[yimmyayo]

[fatshawnkemp]

Something’s wrong with this picture.

[yourmandevine]

:( :( :( :( :(

[nbahipsters]

Fat Patrick CHEwing. 

[dunksdontlie]

“When I dunked on him and got the foul, I looked up to my boys in the stands and said, ‘Now what?’ I’m in the NBA. What can be better than to be the No. 1 pick and dunk on your idol?”

Ben Rohrbach revisits Chris Webber’s famed behind-the-back throwdown on Charles Barkley early in the 1993-94 season, as Ball Don’t Lie’s Dunk History series rolls on.

[nbagifstory]

Reggie Miller — Indiana Pacers

[dunksdontlie]

“The Knicks, due entirely to the work of the team’s inherited owner, have been a laughing stock for a decade and a half. That shouldn’t take away from a franchise history that remains so stout that Willis Reed couldn’t crack the starting lineup.” – Kelly Dwyer, who tabbed Patrick Ewing, Bernard King, Dave DeBusschere, Allan Houston and Walt “Clyde” Frazier as the Knickerbockers’ All-Time Starting Five.

Who would you pick?

[yourmandevine]

This is why Kelly has to do these. I’d pick John Starks over Allan Houston 100 times out of 100 even if it doesn’t make any sense.

[nbahipsters]

4 NBA Hipster Legends on that list. 

[dunksdontlie]

It’s not easy to pick an All-Time Starting Five for the Boston Celtics, an organization with a legacy so strong and so many numbers retired that newcomers wind up taking digits like 90. But we did it anyway. Which Boston ballers would make up your five?

[radicalfeministuprising]

[sugashane-deactivated20151231]

The Men’s World Cup Final got nearly 1 billion views! Compare that to the women’s 25m for their biggest game. 

The round of 16 had 8 total games, the USMNT might have only had 16.5m views but the round in aggregate probably had a ton more than that. Each team splits the money. So the USMNT benefits from the popularity of all the other teams in that round. I don’t know for sure, but I’d go out on a limb and say that there were probably Round of 16 games for the Men’s WC that had more viewers than the Women’s Final. Bet the house on that. 

The US teams ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES GETTING PAID. And they are not ONLY being paid by US television stations. 

How much merchandise was sold during the USWNT World Cup run? I bet you it’s not even close to what was sold for the Men’s team. That’s not even counting all the WC logo’d junk people probably bought. 

Sorry, but if you think the Women’s WC generates ANYWHERE near as much money than the Men’s then you need to go sit down, you have no clue what you are talking about. 

[nbahipsters]

Not NBA, but my take on the World Cup.

[demthingz]

[thegrandarchives]