The outspoken NBA defensive player of the year on winning titles with the Golden State Warriors and why he’s aiming for the Hall of FameDraymond Green, the Golden State Warriors’ man-of-all-trades, struts through the NBA’s European headquarters in London. But you’re permitted a certain swagger if you spent the early part of your summer winning an NBA title. In five seasons, the 2017 NBA defensive player of the year has already won more than most players will in their entire career. What motivates the two-time NBA champion now? “I haven’t won three championships,” he tells the Guardian. Related: Domination and no drama: how big a threat are the Warriors to the NBA? Related: Draymond Green on Clevelanders: 'They don't seem...
The four-time MVP a free agent again in 49 weeks and will look for the best place to win another NBA title. At the moment, that place isn’t ClevelandThe matter of LeBron James v Michael Jordan has been debated once or twice before. This column will not be another entry into that genre. That’s a promise. But maybe we can all briefly agree on just one thing about those two esteemed basketball gentlemen before moving on: Michael Jordan is much better than LeBron James at holding a grudge. Twenty-three years ago, when Tim Tebow was just a six-year-old attending homsechool in Florida, Michael Jordan tried his hand at baseball. It didn’t go too well. Sports Illustrated wrote about his foray...
Football’s best players can’t chase titles in the same way that NBA players do – not if they also want to get paid what they are worthThe former Detroit Lions star receiver Calvin Johnson has come to understand something in his retirement that thousands of current and former players have already learned. The NFL is an owners’ league. Last week Johnson lamented his inability to jump ship to a football dynasty the way the NBA superstars LeBron James and Kevin Durant were able to do with the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors. He decried the unfairness of enduring losing while not having the power to get himself to the Patriots or Broncos or some other championship-ready franchise....
The organization has been accused of ‘slut-shaming’ over its new rules. More than anything they will be difficult to police and reinforce a stuffy imageWhen I was 15, I was sent home from a golf course because my shorts were too, well, short. I was confused because I had looked long and hard for a pair that fell within the course’s stringent specifications, and I went as far as to make sure that I had an extra inch to spare.Despite following the guidelines, I was told that I could not come back. It was embarrassing, and as someone who felt insecure about my body – like many girls do in their teens – I wondered if something was wrong with...
The American is enjoying one of her best seasons at an age when most players have retired. How has she come back from injuries and an auto immune disease?It is hard to underestimate someone with seven grand slam and 49 WTA singles titles. But despite this, Venus Williams’ remarkable run at Wimbledon is a surprise not just because of her age – at 37 Williams was the oldest finalist since Martina Navratilova – but because her battle with a chronic health condition nearly forced her out of tennis.Diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome, an auto-immune disease whose symptoms include joint pain and fatigue, Williams has struggled in the demanding two week grand slam events since her diagnosis, pulling out of the 2011...