Posted by Neil Paine on January 4, 2011
From Sporcle, here's a quiz for everyone who fondly remembers the NBA of the nineties: Can you name the players who made the All-NBA team in the 1990's?
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Posted by Neil Paine on December 14, 2010
This is pretty sweet... It's a PDF version of the Book of Basketball painting ESPN commissioned John Alexander to create, featuring all of the players the top 50 players in Bill Simmons' Hall of Fame pantheon-pyramid. (Btw, somebody should make a Sporcle quiz where you identify the players from their depiction in the picture.)
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Posted by Neil Paine on November 8, 2010
As a follow-up to my review of Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2, Wolverine Studios president Gary Gorski has generously offered to give one lucky BBR reader a free copy of his game. And since he asked that I come up with a contest for the giveaway, I thought this would be a great chance […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on April 28, 2010
Via Sporcle, here's an interesting new take on a leaderboard quiz... Can you name the 2009-10 NBA stat leaders by the college conference of the player's alma mater?
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Posted by Neil Paine on January 8, 2010
Here an epic series of Sporcle quizzes I made: Can you name the players who played in the postseason for every NBA champion from 1994-09? Can you name the players who played in the postseason for every NBA champion from 1977-93? Can you name the players who played in the postseason for every NBA champion […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on January 5, 2010
Here's a Sporcle quiz that I made myself: Can you name the missing words in Allen Iverson's May 2002 Rant? Take the quiz, then watch the video:
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Posted by Neil Paine on January 4, 2010
Due to a tremendous amount of holiday-related backlog in my inbox as S-R's User Affairs Coordinator, we'll have to finish up the Inner-Circle Hall of Fame series on Wednesday. I know you're all so disappointed, but in the meantime, go to Sporcle, try to name the career leaders in eight statistical categories, and we'll be […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on December 5, 2009
We haven't linked to a Sporcle quiz in a while, so here's one that's pretty fun: Can you name every NBA All-Star from 2000-2009?
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Posted by Neil Paine on November 26, 2009
No basketball-related post or links today, just a Sporcle quiz on turkeys... Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! (Fine, if you really want a Turkey Day post on hoops, last year we ran one on the best Thanksgiving Day performances since 1986... You can add Dwight Howard to that rebounding list, too, because he pulled down 14 vs. […]
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Posted by Neil Paine on November 10, 2009
From Sporcle, here's a great quiz about the decade that was the Oughts (1999-2000 thru 2008-09): Can you name each team's top 5 scorers during the 2000s?
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