Chris Paul was preparing to play just another game in his 15-year career. He couldn’t have imagined it’d be his final time on a court for months. He couldn’t have known the country was about to change.
He’s widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan, the winner of SIX NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, has for the first time sat down to discuss the domination of the 1990s.
Kevin Durant joined a Warriors team that won a championship without him, set the league’s seemingly unbreakable single-season record with 73 wins and defeated Durant in the conference finals just a couple months beforehand.
NBA great Shaquille O’Neal once allegedly offered Los Angeles Lakers teammate Isaiah “J.R.” Rider $10,000 to fight Kobe Bryant — just days after the guard joined the team.