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Jack McCallum

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16 days

I'm not the only one to say this but this outpouring of emotion for Bill Walton is extraordinary because almost no one references Bill the player. Few mentions of the 21-of-22 game, the '77 title, the MVP, his steady play in 86, etc. Been about Bill as a person, a true testament.

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One other Bill Walton story: He made a speech at a casino near me, and I was asked to I introduce him. Before the speech I introduced him to a local athlete I had covered in high school many years back for a local newspaper. His son was also a great athlete. Before his speech

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

Thirteen years ago I did a story for Sports Illustrated on then-Commissioner David Stern. As we pinballed around from Barcelona to Rome to Paris to Moscow, the gnarly subject of China came up a few times. This is an excerpt from that story:

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Thirty-one years ago today No. 2 draft pick Len Bias died of coke overdose. Here's the story I wrote.

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

Jesus H. is this good. Then again, it is Tom Callahan on Dan Jenkins.

Remembering Dan Jenkins, whose voice and laughs will live forever

Golf Digest pays tribute to the legendary sports writer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame

www.golfdigest.com

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Man, a lot of life just went out of the league. RIP, Craig.

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7 years

In my early days at SI, Frank Deford sent me a note that advised: "Don't use so many direct quotes. You're a writer, not a stenographer."

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Jack McCallum

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17 days

Bill kept asking me to remind him of their names. (Mike and Andrew Guman, Penn State football stars.) As he gets ready to go on stage, he whispers, "Mike and Andrew, right?" Yes, I said. And Bill proceeds to just NAIL this speech, referencing the Gumans a few time. I was in awe.

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

@jamalgreene @PadmaLakshmi The Stephen Miller Band. Eva Braun and the Bunkerettes.

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6 years

@ChrisMannixYS Though the Suns of a decade ago would beg to differ about that common sense thing.

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5 years

It's a business. I get it. I just wish Adam Silver, who has done the right thing in the past, could've made a statement more sympathetic to @dmorey , who expressed a quite reasonable opinion true to his own beliefs.

Rockets GM Daryl Morey, NBA issue statements on China incident

The NBA league office and Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey each issued new statements clarifying their positions on the China controversy.

rocketswire.usatoday.com

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

@BrettSVergara That duo puts out pot brownies to die for.

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Jack McCallum

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8 years

C.J. McCollum went to school in the town where I live. Been asked our connection. Different races, different spelling, but, ok, he's my son.

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Jack McCallum

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17 days

So, this will be one of hundreds of memories about Bill Walton because every conversation with him made a memory for somebody. Among others: Sitting in his house in front of a roaring fire in the middle of SUMMER while Bill talked about anything and everything.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Notice how @SheaSerrano and I planted our books casually into the bottom of the photo. We had a good time talking hoops and real life.

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

In 2006 I did story on the scoring race between Kobe and Iverson. Kobe told me there was no "race." In back-to-back games he went for 48 and 50, 40 in the second half. As he walked off the court he looked at the press table and gave me me an f-you smirk.

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

I always begged Stern to write a book. He wouldn't do it. But if somebody writes a book about him, on page 1 should be the way that he stood tall against HIV/AIDS ignorance after the Magic announcement.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Attention young journalists: This story by @ScottCacciola is a great example of reporting the hell out of it.

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

I once interviewed Roy Williams when he was at Kansas. Talking about the necessity for personal discipline, he opened a desk drawer to reveal a large pile of candy. "I love candy but don't touch it during the season even though it's right there." Enjoy the retirement candy, Roy.

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

Appreciate the strong readership for my @TheAtlantic story on Gregg Popovich. Thanks to my editor @bvaughan71 for shepherding through the story.

Why More Americans Aren’t Happy for Gregg Popovich

The basketball coach who in recent years has questioned the soul of America brought home the gold for Team USA.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 years

Okay, are you fully Jordan-ed? Now it's time to get fully Dream Team-ed. Just to be clear, my podcast is not just me rehashing my book. It has the voices of all the Dream Teamers on it. It's their story. Here's the link. Drops today. Thank you.

‎The Dream Team Tapes on Apple Podcasts

‎Sports · 2021

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

Stern frequently conjured up the day in 1990 when he and wife Dianne were traveling in a remote area of China where little English was spoken. When it finally became clear that Stern was some kind of NBA executive, a peasant woman smiled and said, "Ah, the Team of Red Oxen" ...

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Jack McCallum

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2 years

First time I realized the power of Twitter, or the power of Grant Wahl more specifically, was at the London Olympics in 2012. Grant, @alexander_wolff and I met at a pub. A fubtol enthusiast/Grant fan sent out a tweet that Grant was at the pub, and, suddenly, out of nowhere ...

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

RIP Elgin Baylor. In the running for most-overlooked superstar. Among sports world's cruelest developments is that he never won a championship. Retired nine games into what turned out to be a legendary Lakers season in 1971-72.

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Jack McCallum

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9 years

You wait around long enough, history inverts. Years ago a No. 23 Bull tortured the Cavs; now a 23 Cav is torturing the Bulls.

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4 years

Michael Jordan insisted that David Stern could've done more to quell the talk about Jordan's gambling when it surfaced years ago. I disagreed and Jordan all but bit my head off. "If David said, 'Don't go there,' nobody went there," Jordan insisted. I'll leave it at that.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

7 years

After reconsideration and a chat with @ESPNSteinLine , yes, I have Dirk too low (37) on this list. (cont’d)

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

RIP Lewis D'Antoni. A great coach and father of two great coaches, Mike and Dan. Lewis was 103. He took it to--what?--five overtimes.

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

Enjoyed the basketball parts of Eps 9 and 10, enjoyed seeing M.J.'s kids, enjoyed the Kerr back story, enjoyed most of the 10 hours. (Not sure Phil was up for another Bulls run.) My lingering question: Is Jordan happy? The Last Post of The Last Dance.

Too Long? Too Narrow? Too Open-Ended? Our 'Last Dance' Critic Wraps Up His Review

As ESPN's five-week Sunday escape comes to its conclusion, where does this leave Michael Jordan? And where does he leave us?

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

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6 years

Find out why the great @ZachLowe_NBA picked the 1997 Finals as his most memorable. And, no, it wasn't because he loved Michael Jordan or the Bulls. Please enjoy this podcast compendium of fave Finals.

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

Just to be clear: I am in no way related to Fox News "journalist" Martha MacCallum. Our names are spelled differently. I will, however, accept any and all connections to the splendid guard CJ McCollum. Martha MacCallum

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

The best ping-pong player on the Dream Team was Christian Laettner. He used to frustrate the hell out of Jordan. Anyway, Laettner's biggest competition was David Stern. A real good player.

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Jack McCallum

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8 years

It was great watching Boris Diaw and Leandro Barbosa share a postgame moment. Two of my faves from the "Seven Seconds or Less" Days.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

I have the feeling that if we all went to sleep for a hundred years and woke up with a basketball game on, we'd say, "Hmm, Raymond Felton's still in the league. Who's he with now?"

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Don't drop whatever you're doing, particularly the dishes. But here's the info on my new hoops book due in October.

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Jack McCallum

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8 years

Thanks to everyone for retweeting this. Thanks to Duncan for some damn fine hoops over the years.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Upon the death of Jimmy Breslin, I won't be the only one posting his immortal column about JFK's gravedigger.

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Jack McCallum

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17 days

I would pay some amount of money to hear Bill explaining Debs to Larry.

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Jack McCallum

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8 years

Hope there's not even a discussion about Curry being suspended. He threw a mouthpiece. Let's move on to Game 7.

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Jack McCallum

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4 months

As I know from @jeffpearlman an author should always post a photo of himself opening his first batch of books from the publisher. After much deliberation, I have decided to show only my finger, lest a follower mistake the quality of the author's image for the quality of the book

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

@Yamiche Could've been worse. They could've called him Dred Scott.

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Jack McCallum

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17 days

Word by Montville.

Leigh Montville

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If everyone was Bill Walton, this would be a wonderful fucking world. That is truth.

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7 years

You may read a better sports story this month than this one by @SITimLayden . But I seriously doubt it.

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3 years

Wasn't it horrible when those NFL players took a knee?

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

Dream Team moments? And what do Homer and "The Odyssey" have to do with all this? Answers within. By the way, I see a parallel universe where Charles Smith is still missing layups, one after the other, one after the other ...

Merciless Mike and the Air Jordans of Clay

Our veteran NBA writer assesses the documentary's handling of Harvey Gantt, Slim Bouler, Atlantic City and all that threatened MJ's image. As if he'd let that happen.

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

I assume there's some roasting of the Greek Freak going on--don't care much to read it--so here is an oft-issued reminder: Jordan made it to the Finals in his SEVENTH season, which is seven seasons after he became a recognized superstar.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Holy crap is this good. Might be an ad first but hang in.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

2 years

... came a slew of people wanting to talk soccer with Grant. "I guess there's no hoop fans here," I joked to Alex, one of the great basketball chroniclers. "We are with Wahl people," Alex said, "and we are nobodies." It's a lovely memory ... and now a sad one.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Holy crap this is good. And sad.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 years

Any young writers out there looking to get better or looking to get started, read this piece by @SteveRushin . Detail, tone, depth of reporting, etc. You don't have to be this good. You probably won't be. But use it as a guide.

Pour One Out for the Sports Bar

The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered countless celebrated watering holes that were like second homes to sports fans.

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

5 years

A young lady my wife taught two decades ago posted this TODAY.

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Jack McCallum

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9 years

RIP Moses Malone: The man jumped about eight inches off the floor but got every rebound. Not a man against boys; a tougher man against men.

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

The author of GIANNIS, @MirinFader , has that most important quality for a book writer: Impeccable championship timing.

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Jack McCallum

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2 years

Even if you hadn't covered him in his prime, Bill Russell was always in your consciousness when you covered the NBA. That's how important he was. On only one occasion did I deal with him at length for a story, that when he joined the Sacramento Kings in 1987, an experiment that

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Twenty-five years later, the story behind the "mystical" Dream Team scrimmage tape.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 years

A line from a tweet by VP Mike Pence, who walked out of an NFL game because players were protesting. "We will always stand for the right of Americans to peacefully protest and let their voices be heard." You wonder why the Great God of Irony did not smote the man on the spot.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 years

I was around when the Beatles came on Ed Sullivan in '64. Discussed it with buddies at the high school water cooler on Monday morning. Tonight was another watercooler moment. Sharing my thoughts on Eps 1 and 2 of "The Last Dance."

Here We Are, All Watching the Same Sports-Thing on TV Again. Feels Nice, Eh?

Meet us at the watercooler. Let's talk episodes 1 & 2 of the new Michael Jordan (er, Bulls) documentary.

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 years

Somewhere in the top five things I regret about not being on the NBA beat anymore is not getting to know and write about Kyle Lowry.

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Jack McCallum

@McCallum12

4 months

I suddenly remembered that on this day 53 years ago I had my first byline in a newspaper. It was the Bethlehem (Pa.) Globe-Times; it was about a high school basketball game. I'm sure it was boilerplate. I was a college senior. No but me cares about this, but I had some free time.

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Jack McCallum

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6 years

Damn, Skip Bayless had his whole script written, his whole DAY made, and now he's gotta change up.

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

@RexChapman The kid's gotta mix it up, though. Work the plate a little for God' sake. I woulda got him outta there.

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Jack McCallum

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8 years

Happy 60th, Larry Bird. Here's the first of many stories I did on him from March of 1986.

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7 years

What I remember most about Craig Sager? Total pro. Worked his ass off. Didn't mail it in. The color of his clothes never went to his head.

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17 days

@jamiekmccallum Robert Parish and Kevin McHale also in the photo. I'd have to retrieve it from my office, and I'm not home. You wanna drive 300 miles and get it?

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Jack McCallum

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2 years

Wife: You used to know John Stockton pretty well. What's the deal? Me: No idea. Wife: What he's saying about vaccinations is crazy. Surprised? Me: Yes. Wife: You know any athletes who collapsed and died after getting vaxed? Me: No. Wife: That all you got? Me: We need bread.

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

Note to Cam Newton: In 1969 hundreds of journalists wrote intelligently about Neil Armstrong's walk and none had ever been to the moon.

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6 years

Appreciate @SteveNash tossing out the phrase "Seven Seconds Or Less" during HOF speech, though not in reference to the book. He's always claimed, with a smile, that he never read it. Maybe that's true. At any rate, great speech.

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7 years

Jerry West nugget from interview: "I'm a dreamer. And almost everything that happened at Golden State was a dream."

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

There was nothing quite like interviewing David Stern. It was like trying to do the Times crossword puzzle while shouted insults at you. But you could go back at him, and he did not hold grudges. A least that was my experience. He was a giant. My thoughts to Diane and sons.

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10 months

Wait ... I'm drinking a margarita on a deck near the ocean thinking things won't get much better and then ... I get a shoutout from @SheaSerrano ? Enough to make a man's August ...

Shea Serrano

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one of my favorite books ever — probably have read it five or so times — suffered a little water damage a few years ago but it only made it cooler shoutout the king @McCallum12

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

You might be over-MJ-ed. I understand. This can wait until morning. But here's another, oh, 3,000-plus about Eps 5 and 6. Do I think Jordan was asked to step away because of his gambling? Do I think commissiner David Stern went too easy on him? Do I have other thoughts on the

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3 years

Gregg Popovich waited a while to call all the shots on an Olympic basketball team. I, for one, am happy for the man.

Why More Americans Aren’t Happy for Gregg Popovich

The basketball coach who in recent years has questioned the soul of America brought home the gold for Team USA.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

Not many conspiracy angles in a Zion-to-NOLA story, but ... Reports say that Emeril Lagasse was whipping up barbecue shrimp in Adam Silver's kitchen last night. Just sayin'.

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7 years

The full story on West leaving the Warriors now up on @TheCrossover .

Jerry West joins Clippers in search of new challenge

With the Clippers, Jerry West faces a challenge—the team has no draft picks in 2017 and the looming free agency of its two stars, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

On the steps of my boyhood home, Jack McCallum Sr. (1913-1994) and I discuss whether or not he should've worn something besides varying shades of light blue for this photo. His answer was probably: Who cares?

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6 years

In regards to Skip's tweet about LeBron's fatigue and how it was never talked about with Jordan? I wrote a dozen stories talking about whether or not Jordan was tired. It's a perennial NBA theme by June or even May.

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Jack McCallum

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4 years

Here's a story I wrote a decade again about traveling with David Stern. Please excuse the egregious spacing that seems unfixable. The commissioner would've undoubtedly broken my stones about it.

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6 years

My father always said: Never leave a game early. So I go watch the minor league Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs for the second time. (Great name, by the way.) Pigs are down 10-4 after seven. So we leave. I'm home when they win 14-13 in 10, hearing an I-told-you-so from the grave.

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Jack McCallum

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3 years

LeBron can call Barack when he has a problem. The Big O? He had a lonelier activist path back when just about everyone wanted athletes to shut up and dribble. I wrote about Oscar Robertson for SI's year-end issue.

Oscar Robertson: The NBA's Forgotten Trailblazer

Remembering the Big O solely as a triple-double machine ignores his activism.

www.si.com

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Jack McCallum

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7 years

MVP voting shouldn't be about numbers. But, man, Westbrook made it hard NOT to make it about numbers, didn't he?

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6 years

The link was broken on previous tweet, which gives me another excuse to tweet my own story because if you haven't blown your own horn a dozen times you're not really on Twitter.

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Jack McCallum

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5 years

This entire first half is a plot to make Maroon 5 look interesting

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4 years

... every time Stern and I talked about the Bulls we called them the Team of Red Oxen.

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4 years

Where you gonna get "Leaving Las Vegas," Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and mosh pit in the same review of Sunday night's "The Last Dance?" Right here.

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4 years

The President was speaking a couple miles from my house today. I went out into the front yard and heard his amplified voice. It was like a voice from heaven, except, you know, the opposite.

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7 years

That was particularly strong postgame handshake work by everyone. Much respect.

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3 years

Thoughtful use of their "Around the Horn" time by both @PabloTorre and @minakimes

Pablo Torre and Mina Kimes' Around The Horn comments on violence against Asian Americans were a...

Wednesday's "Around The Horn" on ESPN saw Pablo Torre and Mina Kimes discuss increased violence against Asian Americans.

awfulannouncing.com

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7 years

Well, imagine my surprise when, during the Houston-Phoenix game, up pops a screen shot of SEVEN SECONDS OR LESS in reference to D'Antoni, of course. So my crass gene kicked in and here's where you can get it.

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8 years

LeBron haters frantically combing their notes for material after he makes his sixth straight Final.

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7 years

Barkley ... with the assist.

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8 years

This is about the 9,000th bench-clearing brawl in the last decade, so why is nobody in baseball ever called a thug?

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5 years

@NicoleAuerbach 1. Bob Dylan. 2. Did. Mistake.

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4 years

When you compile a list of Those Who Were Really Good Players and Really Great Coaches But Never Won a Championship, be sure to include Jerry Sloan. RIP Mr. John Deere Hat.

Remembering Jerry Sloan: A Quintessential, Tough Old-Timer

Former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan died on Friday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

www.si.com

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8 years

I've been around locker rooms for, oh, fifty years and never heard anyone quite as vulgar as Trump. A truly irredeemable asshat.

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4 years

If you're not doing anything for the next hour--or even if you had intended to--lock yourself away and read this piece about the American caste system by @Isabelwilkerson , who also wrote the brilliant "The Warmth of Other Suns."

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6 years

Never one to tell somebody that he/she SHOULD speak out politically. But it's time for Jordan to say SOMETHING about the Trump University defrauder commenting on a guy who started a school.

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5 years

This was Phil Martelli: He left practice early, made a round-trip drive of 140 miles to Bethlehem, made a speech that people still talk about and made it clear he wouldn't take a dime. I thought they'd fire the Hawk before they'd fire Phil.

Phil Martelli has been fired from St. Joseph’s, but his legacy will never die | Mike Jensen

Martelli did the impossible on Hawk Hill. He made the United States of America know about St. Joe’s basketball.

www.inquirer.com

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6 years

Today's First World Observation: Leaving your car in a gas bay and going into Wawa for fifteen minutes is a major violation of the social contract that keeps us a civilized society. I may be exaggerating a little bit. But only a little.

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7 years

My '91 Sportsman story on MJ showed up on @SInow . Jordan's take on his image was fascinating.

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7 years

Oh hell, yeah. @TheSteinLine joining NY Times. Even Trump may be moved to tweet: NY TIMES NO LONGER FAILING! STEIN ON BOARD!

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