Posts by Holly MacKenzie
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Q&A: Gary Payton on Coaching, Playing Against John Stockton, and the Art of Talking Trash
Gary Payton has a hell of a basketball résumé. Almost certain to be a Hall of Famer, Payton was the only point guard to ever win a Defensive Player of the Year award. He was an All-Star nine times, named to the All-Defensive first team nine times, and picked up a ring in 2006 with […]
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Q&A: Arron Afflalo on Kendrick Lamar, His Compton Roots, and the Magic’s Surprising Season
When Kendrick Lamar dropped Good Kid, m.A.A.d City on October 22, 2012, one song immediately jumped out at basketball fans, bloggers, and NBA players: the bonus track, “Black Boy Fly,” and its verse dedicated to Lamar’s fellow Compton native Arron Afflalo. In typically detailed and autobiographical Kendrick Lamar fashion, “Black Boy Fly” takes us back […]
