How Cal star’s life off the court makes him perfect NBA pick By Zach Braziller June 22, 2016 | 9:54pm Jaylen Brown is a Renaissance man. A projected top-10 pick in Thursday night’s NBA draft at Barclays Center, Brown...
NBA ELO Ratings?
The Best NBA Teams Of All-Time, According To Elo BASKETBALL 9:57 AM MAY 22, 2015 By NATE SILVER and REUBEN FISCHER-BAUM The stakes in the NBA are incredibly high. Superstar players so dominate the league that decisions on trades,...
Chess moves in the NBA
Mark Cuban adds to the Spurs’ analytics departmentby Jon Styf LEAD WRITER Sports are getting more sophisticated by the day, and those Billy Beane and “Moneyball” get all the credit in baseball, basketball’s stat-heads and analytics leaders are a...
Chess and NBA players
Rockets GM Daryl Morey Tweets Photos Of Past, Present NBA Stars Playing ChessTuesday, September 16, 2014 1:37 pmWritten by: Jonathan Crowl Chess doesn’t have a long tradition in NBA circles, but you can’t blame Daryl Morey. The Houston Rockets...
Houston Pawn Stars on the hard wood
Rockets players Trevor Ariza, Troy Daniels try their hands at being different type of ‘pawn stars’Posted on September 15, 2014 | By Jenny Dial Creech Photos from Clutch City Checkmate Challenge: https://picasaweb.google.com/116302832360230031699/ClutchCityCheckmateChallengeHoustonRockets Before Monday, Rockets G/F Trevor Ariza didn’t know...
Clutch City Checkmate Challenge w/ the Houston Rockets
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess at NBA Cares Learn & Play Center
Spurs Help Open Learning Center at Elementary SchoolUpdated: Friday, June 6 2014, 09:39 PM CDTBy: Robert Price Imagine sitting down to play Jenga with George Gervin or a game of chess with Matt Bonner. Friday students got the chance...
The Connection Between Chess and Basketball
POINT GUARD, A GAME OF CHESS Eric Patten, Clippers.com12/24/13 There is an innate similarity between a chess prodigy and a point guard: precision, calculation, recognition, visualization and timing among other qualities. Perhaps the two are both visionaries within their...
NBA Superstar Dwight Howard: ‘I Was in Chess Club’
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General Trivia
Jeremy Lin is just the second Asian – American player in NBA history. Who is the first? Bonus questions: Which team did this first player play for and what year was that? Don’t cheat by looking it up 🙂...