Dunks hurt like hell.
Basketball’s greatest feat is something that fans obssess over, teenagers dream about, veterans dread, and retired players long to do again. This is the agony, the adrenaline, and the maturity that dunks cause:
I am so ready to be be in on this year's #Mavericks home stretch: so much promise, so much personality. But the minute one player kneels during the anthem, I am OUT. Surely @mcuban can lead the way for #Mavs, #NBA to do whatever gesture they wish without insulting the nation.
Mark Cuban decided before the season the Mavericks would no longer play the national anthem, and it hasn't been before any of the team's 13 home games.
It's the first instance we know of a pro sports team striking the U.S. anthem from the pre-game.
JACKSON: this just isn’t right, to me. in my era, when a player died, he stayed dead.
VAN GUNDY: i once died in a chili’s parking lot. came to three days later, but no one’s calling me the messiah.
BREEN: timeout from kerr