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Orlando got a taste of some pure magic on Thursday’s trade deadline as the front office traded agreed to trade Jonathon Simmons, a future first-round and a second-round pick to the Philadelphia 76ers for guard Markelle Fultz. The former No. 1-overall pick clearly needed a change of scenery after a rocky start in Philly; now […]

Earning an NBA All-Star spot is tough. Of the 480 players who have seen NBA action this season, only 57 have made an All-Star Game during their careers. Players have to play hard, produce great stats, and their team needs to win often, plus they need support from fans and respect from other players, media […]

NBA legend Grant Hill was recently inducted into the the Basketball Hall of Fame. Now, just a short while later, the 46-year-old has signed a lifetime endorsement deal with Fila. Hill is no stranger to Fila. In fact, he was with the popular sneaker company when he entered the NBA in 1994. “Fila was there […]

Grant Hill never reached his potential in the NBA, thanks to his uncooperative body. Injuries had greatly diminished what Hill could have attained, especially during his prime years with the Detroit Pistons, but despite the sizeable amount of time he missed to recuperate from his many physical aches, he still managed to get enshrined to […]

Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson took to Twitter to express his admiration for Grant Hill, invoking the names of some of the best players to ever lace them up in comparison to the new Hall of Famer. “If it wasn’t for an injury while playing in the NBA, Grant Hill would have gone down […]

Grant Hill is arguably Fila’s biggest NBA endorser of all time. This is exactly why the now South Korea-based sporting goods company recently released a tribute video dedicated to one of the latest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It was Hill himself who shared his former sponsor’s homage through his personal […]

Jayson Tatum’s star is continuing to burn bright, but NBA legend Grant Hill knew this long before Tatum was playing for the Boston Celtics. In fact, Grant Hill saw this while Tatum was on a recruiting trip to Duke according to Jay King of The Athletic. Hill told King: “Jayson is just an amazing talent […]

Grant Hill is only one day away from being enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and along with it are the memories of grandeur that emanate from his early days as the star of the Detroit Pistons. His teammate Grant Long, still remembers his natural gift for the game, claiming his feel for […]

Grant Hill is perhaps known as the best player that could have been, as his meteoric rise to the upper echelon of the NBA was marred by a history of injuries that ultimately derailed his career. Two days away from an induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Hill admitted how this honor validates […]

Grant Long spent two brief years with the Detroit Pistons through his 14-year career in the league, but those coincided with the best of soon-to-be Hall of Famer Grant Hill, who sits two days away from his induction as basketball royalty. To Long, there was no better player at the small forward position than Hill, […]

Detroit Pistons great Rick Mahorn expressed his respect for soon-to-be Hall of Fame inductee Grant Hill, who was a generational talent coming into the league as an all-around dynamo. The former Bad Boys big man even compared Hill to Steph Curry, another once-in-a-generation talent who has changed the NBA forever, according to James Edwards III of […]

Once considered as the next Michael Jordan, former Los Angeles Clippers forward Grant Hill is one of those guys who was never really able to live up to his full potential due to injuries. The 45-year-old recently admitted that it was actually another knee injury — one that he had sustained in the most unexpected […]

A Grant Hill-Shaquille O’neal partnership in the 90s would be a full-blown coup. But in the twilight of their respective careers, they had the chance to become teammates when they played together for the Phoenix Suns. Hill had countless memories of playing for the Suns, and one of them was when O’Neal lost control and choked […]

Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala has paid tribute to former NBA great Grant Hill during the Players Tech Summit in San Francisco this year. The Warriors’ swiss army knife claims he admires Hill on what he does on and off the court, as posted on Twitter by senior NBA writer for ESPN, Marc J. […]

Grant Hill, Jason Kidd and Steve Nash have been notified that each will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The announcement will formally take place during the Final Four weekend. Former Philadelphia 76ers guard and current Oklahoma City Thunder assistant Maurice Cheeks will join […]

In today’s league, the NBA has evolved into a super team association. The reigning NBA champion the Golden State Warriors are a reminder that the NBA is built on the foundation of a super team, while other franchises try to forge their own super teams to compete for a championship these days. In any case, […]

We are now one third of the way through the NBA season, and so far, there have been a few serious injuries, with Gordon Hayward, Paul Millsap, and Patrick Beverley all missing significant time. Throughout NBA history, many players have been seriously injured, and some have made remarkable comebacks from those injuries. Shaun Livingston The […]

A unique trait to all professional sports, especially in the USA, are the so called “What if” scenarios. From barbershops and social media to major TV networks speculations about the outcome of events are constantly being brought up. Unfortunately, one of the most common “what if”-s revolves around players whose careers suffered because of injuries. […]

Tracy McGrady’s career looked to slowly take off as a member of the Toronto Raptors, but following a first-round loss in 2000, he parted ways with the organization after being stuck behind his cousin Vince Carter for the first three years of his career. The Florida native would play close to his home with the […]

During his time as a Detroit Pistons player from 1994-2000, Grant Hill would regularly stare at the retired jerseys hanging from the rafters in The Palace. Since retiring in 2013, Hill has worked as an analyst and now dreams of his number 33 jersey being placed above the Pistons’ fans, per Eric Woodyard of MLive.com: […]

The Kobe Bryant era for the Los Angeles Lakers was one full of highs and lows from the very start. After coming back from a wrist injury, Bryant was unhappy coming off the bench and called Jerry West to discuss how to score more consistently on a nightly basis as well as to request a […]

NBA All-Star and Duke University alum Grant Hill surprised 1700 freshmen Blue Devils at a local Target store in Durham. As Duke University tradition has it, the school gives incoming freshmen the opportunity to shop at Target after hours to grab their necessary supplies for the school year. Pens, flash cards and wide-ruled paper are […]