Happy 47th birthday to one of the most polarizing college athletes of all time. Christian Donald Laettner was born in Angola, New York—two miles west of…
Dean Smith is one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history. The only son of strict Baptist schoolteachers, Dean Edwards Smith was born February…
Chamique Shaunta Holdsclaw was called the “female Michael Jordan.” Born in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, on this date in 1977, she grew…
Nathaniel Thurmond recorded the first quintuple double in NBA history. Born in Akron, Ohio—home of LeBron James [Daily Dose, December 30]—on this date in 1941, he…
A fear of sharks drove Timothy Theodore Duncan to become a basketball player. Born in Christianhead–a town with less than 3,000 inhabitants–on St. Croix, U.S.…
The American Basketball Association was fast, fun and freewheeling. Founded in 1967, the ABA intended to compete with the well-established National Basketball Association [NBA] with…
Happy 53rd Birthday to a guy you would never want to play in a game of H-O-R-S-E Jeffrey John Hornacek [horn-a-seck] was born in Elmhurst,…
The Harlem Globetrotters are the most famous basketball team of all time. The Savoy Big Five was a basketball team founded on the south side…
John Houston Stockton giveth and he taketh away. The greatest passer in NBA history finished his career as the league’s all-time assist leader, with 15,806. …
The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls have the greatest single season record in NBA history. After winning their third consecutive title in 1993, Michael Jordan retired from…