About the Author
Name: Austin Kent
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Bio: As both contributing writer and assistant editor of HoopsAddict.com, Austin Kent has enjoyed covering the NBA game from behind the scenes since 2006. Additionally, he is currently the sports editor of The Brock Press and has written for a number of basketball websites and newspapers throughout Ontario.
Shawn Bradley is, and always has been, more than just astonishingly tall. An admirable citizen both on and off the court, it was hard not to appreciate the affable giant as he patrolled the paint like an extraterrestrial on a solo mission to conquer mankind, but the man was not without his critics.
Relax Canada, the fate of your Olympic basketball bid is in good hands. At least that’s the impression fans of this year’s men’s national team walked away with after an impressive, albeit probably expected, victory over Lebanon on Monday.
He wasn’t Michael Jordan and he wasn’t Scottie Pippen, but if the original Chicago Bulls dynasty was to you what it was to the rest of the world, he was the next best thing.
While the rest of the world is busy celebrating the fact that Bill Russell doesn’t have to lend out any of his hard-earned man jewellery, I decided to take the general theme of “team success, winning and overall fan satisfaction” and work backwards.
In the hallowed halls of one of downtown Toronto’s most legendary auditoriums, a particularly sport-minded buzz fills the presumably stuffy air, people in rarely-worn fancy clothes wade through huddles of fellow hockey fans searching for their seats before the curtains are drawn and the show begins. Whispers of who should win what and why occupy [...]
On the eve of basketball’s final series, I sit in a dark, depressed room dealing with demons who’ve haunted me and others like me since the perennial fall of the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals last week. In the days following the defeat I travelled across Ontario not once but twice, searching for [...]
In a game where two of the NBA’s most prized elite fought valiantly until the final buzzer rang, where Ray Allen finally broke out of his uncharacteristic slump and where the revolving door of late-game Pistons heroes continued to spin with enough consistency to make Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak blush, the one real surprise [...]
In what has quickly become a media-fueled gong show, filled with cheap insults and unbacked claims, two familiar members of the Orlando Magic have spoken up once again in regards to their second-round match up with the Detroit Pistons.
“We’re going to make some adjustments and we’re going to go [back to Detroit] and win this [...]
With all of the public beefing, needless calamity and all-out hullabaloo going on between these two teams in the media following Game 1 and then the tirelessly disputed three-pointer Chauncey Billups nailed at the end of the third quarter in Game 2, it’s hard to take a step back and look at the biggest concern [...]
Dwight Howard has a twinkle in his eyes and a million dollar smile capable of winning over an entire metropolis with ease. He’s tall, handsome, well-mannered and built in a mold similar to that used in the creation of Greek’s ancient gods.
A high school manchild-turned-NBA man’s man, Howard wasted no time becoming one of the [...]