by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Basketball Hall of Fame waited eight years to admit Chris Webber. Can you blame them? Even those who have watched him forever aren’t sure what to make of him. Here is a 15-year NBA veteran who is still best known as a college player, an athlete with...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 27, 2020 | Sports, Detroit Free Press
Man is not built to fly. Some still do. Kobe Bryant did. He flew through the air of suburban Philadelphia basketball courts and he flew over college altogether and landed in the NBA as a 17-year-old, where he flew through defenders, flew through the record...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was a short tweet. Only seven words. But it ripped the façade off of two giant forces, the Chinese government and the National Basketball Association, and exposed their hypocrisies in a sobering light. If you’ve ever doubted the power of free speech, and the perils...
by Mitch Albom | May 14, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A dream is a wish your heart makes. That’s how the old Disney song goes. So let’s take the high road and say the dream of coaching an NBA team was just too strong a wish for John Beilein’s heart to turn down. Better to think that. Better to think Beilein, at age 66,...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 13, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You shouldn’t be known for the worst thing you ever did. As Dan Gilbert flew in a private plane to meet LeBron James last Sunday, he made notes about things to say, things he had been thinking about for four years, since the night James announced on national TV...
by Mitch Albom | May 4, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Now that Donald Sterling has been banned, fined and condemned – the proper, if ugly, conclusion, in my mind – we should discuss how it happened. Most of us don’t need to worry about angry mistresses, Department of Justice investigations,...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 30, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views. They simply have no place in the NBA.”Adam Silver, NBA commissionerDonald Sterling allegedly said black people smell and Mexicans only drink and smoke, and Asian women know how to provide sex the...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 20, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Because they could not do the simplest of things, the San Antonio Spurs must now do the most difficult: overcome themselves. If they succeed tonight, in Game 7, on the road, against the mighty Miami Heat, you will have witnessed one of the greatest displays of mental...
by Mitch Albom | May 5, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
MITCH ALBOM examines the similarities and differences between brave, inspiring athletes Ever since NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay, some people have been hailing him as a new Jackie Robinson. He isn’t. Yes, he is brave. And yes, he is...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 1, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
So let me get this straight, I say to Andre Drummond. You were just hanging out in Manhattan on Tuesday night?”Yeah,” he says. “With my mom.”Watching TV?”Watching TV.”And your agent calls?”Yeah. And he said, ÃÂYou got a...
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