Interested in some weekend sports reading? Here are some of the most stimulating articles we’ve gathered from around the web this week.
- ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan on the “cruel tutelage” of Kevin Garnett, one of the league’s most intense, enigmatic and demanding veterans and leaders on a Minnesota team with Karl-Anthony Towns and some of the most talented youngers in the game. Read more
- How did head coach Oliver Eslinger and Caltech help turn around a Beavers basketball program, which had gone years and years without winning even a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference? SI’s Chris Ballard explains. Read more
- Dikembe Mutombo gives a first-person account of his journey and the joy of getting his jersey retired with the Hawks in The Players Tribune. Read more
- Seth Partnow writes on The Washington Post how even as the NBA game is evolving and going smaller, the traditional NBA big men can still take advantage of second units and their overmatched, suspect post defenders. Read more
- Interested in the NBA’s future? SI’s Luke Winn breaks down the play of LSU 6-10 freshman phenom Ben Simmons, who could very well be the first name called at the 2016 NBA Draft. Read more