Rebound Reporting

The NBA rookie class was really good this year, a lot of first year players made a name for themselves this season. Some people are saying that this could be the greatest rookie class since the 2003 class which includes LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Bosh. That 2003 class came in blazing through the league and all 4 of those players became perennial all-stars. The 2017 class has a lot of talented players who led or had a big part of their teams success. Jayson Tatum, Donovan Mitchell, and Ben Simmons were stars their rookie seasons with Tatum coming on strong in the playoffs. Those 3 got the most attention but there were other rookies that made an impact on NBA teams this year. Lonzo Ball, Dennis Smith Jr., John Collins and other made an impact in the league this season. You have the top 3 rookies in the class who are also the 3 finalist for the Rookie of the Year award this season. Donovan Mitchell was the 13 th pick in the draft to the Utha Jazz and nobo...

The Golden State Warriors as currently assembled are probably the best team in NBA history. They have the most likely the two best shooters in NBA history in Stephen Curry, and Klay Thompson. They have a great defender in Draymond Green that can guard anyone on the court basically, not to mention Green makes plays for the Warriors on offense and is a great leader for them. Then they have Kevin Durant who’s easily the best scorer in NBA this generation. He’s seven feet tall and can handle the rock with such grace you wouldn’t think he’s actually 7 feet. They have a do it all player in Andre Iguodala who does everything for the team. A lot of people are saying this team will beat any team in a 7 game series. I’m here to dispute that claim. The 2000-2001 Los Angeles Lakers were an all time great team. They featured Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal and a perfect cast of role players around them. They ran the triangle offense perfectly taught by Phil Jackson and had Shaq protecting the...

The Cowboys released Dez Bryant last Friday, and everyone thinks oh its a great move. Dez can’t get open anymore and he’s lost a step. He was making too much money and had too much counting towards the cap for the year. That’s good cut by the Cowboys. I’m here to tell you it’s not true at all. Dez Bryant last season had 69 receptions for 838 yards and 6 touchdowns. People forget that Dak Prescott was his quarterback the last 2 seasons where he “lost a step”. I don’t know if you guys noticed this but Dak Prescott can’t throw the ball that well. If you go look at Dez Bryant’s highlights most of them are going to get the ball on top of people or tough contested catches while being closely guarded. These passes have to be thrown on the money in the catch radius to be caught by Dez. Bryant was never a get separation type of receiver. This is why you need a QB that can put the ball in the right places. I believe if Dez goes to a team with a good QB you will see a little bit of good D...

These days people getting caught cheating left and right, and it’s getting worse because of the social media era. People be having sexual intercourse and be recording it. The person that’s recording is prolly going to put it on social media to show off. All the touching and twerking and licking on people gets reported too which means you’re probably going to get caught. What I don’t like is people quick to blame social media for they relationships messing up. You can’t blame social media sites for what you or partner did behind each other’s back. Just like when people blatantly flirt on social media they want to blame other people for their mistakes. Why not just break up with the person or not do the things that is considered cheating to start with? My thing is this, if social media broke up your relationship, how strong was your “relationship” anyways?

The NFL draft is next month. The Cleveland Browns who have been just awful for at least the last decade have the 1st and 4th picks in the NFL draft. So everyone has opinions on who the Browns should take with this draft pick. Most of the analysts say the Browns should take a QB with the pick. Quarterbacks haven’t worked too well as they have really missed on QB’s or haven’t put a lot of talent around the QB’s to succeed. Sometimes you would have to think that history would repeat itself and if you draft a QB with the first pick without talent around him that he would succeed either. What is this thing that when you have a horrible team and you have the 1st pick that means you have to draft a QB? You don’t have to draft QB first to instantly get your team right. I believe if there is a clear best player in the draft you should take that player. In this case the Browns have he first and 4th pick in the draft. This draft is loaded with talented QB’s. You have Josh Rosen, Josh Allen, ...

If you’re an competitor or participate in competitive activities or sports then you don’t like losing too much. What if somebody told you that losing is actually better than winning? What would you do? Some people will be like no, I can’t just walk out here and lose basically on purpose. Even me as a person I most likely would say naw I can’t participate in that. You can go the route of not tanking and trying to be competitive for your city. This doesn’t work of the time. If you have enough talent to win 46 games and lose 2 round over and over again what exactly are you accomplishing in that span? You win those games and win a playoff series and then you’re not getting a high draft pick and if you’re not in a big market most likely you’re not getting an marquee free agents you’re stuck in the middle. Are you content with being stuck in the middle? Probably not, which means you to try to get high draft picks. The way you get those? LOSING. In the NBA teams are obviously trying ...

This NBA season has been full of incredible story lines, but one story seems to being overshadowed a little too much. Anthony Davis is a superstar basketball player. People are seeming to overlook that saying he's just a star because he hasn't won any playoff games, or they say he hasn't won any awards and things like that. The playoff wins are a bad point to me, to win a playoff series win the team he has currently constructed is comparable to the teams that Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson and Lebron James carried respectively. Those teams needed real life superstars to make it to the playoffs. Anthony Davis to be is not getting a fair shake to me in terms of being a superstar. He's has been dealt a bad hand overall. He has played on bad teams his whole career. The only thing I can hold against him is that he gets injured a lot. He has missed a lot of a games with a lot of injuries over his career. The New Orleans Pelicans went out and got DeMarcus Cousins last year at th...

Super Bowl 52 was Sunday and the Philadelphia Eagles won their title since 1960. It wasn’t even called the Super Bowl back then when the Eagles won their last NFL title. The media has tried to portray this as a huge upset because all of the Las Vegas sports books had the Eagles as the underdog. If you watched the Eagles all season you would know that this probably wasn’t that big of an upset. They had the better offensive line, better defense and in my opinion better offensive weapons outside of Rob Gronkowski who I consider to be the tight end of all time. The talk before the game was can Nick Foles not blow the game, is the moment too big for him, can he be clutch against the greatest accomplishment quarterback of all time? He answered yes is a resounding fashion. He didn’t just outplay Tom Brady who had 505 yards and 3 touchdowns. But he played just as great at him by 28/43 for 373 yards and 3 touchdowns with one interception. Here’s the catch, he also caught a touchdown pa...

The NFL season has come to a close and there is a lot stories going to be talked about. You have Tom Brady being in the front for MVP, Todd Gurley and the Los Angeles Rams turning it around after being awful last year, and also the Minnesota Vikings being the number 2 seed with a former backup quarterback. There are a bunch of other stories that we can talk about, but there’s one big one in my opinion that’s honestly not getting enough attention. Roger Goodell most likely single handily ruined the Dallas Cowboys season with his vendetta against their running back Ezekiel Elliott. Elliot was suspended 6 games at the beginning of this NFL season for being charged with domestic violence against his ex girlfriend. The NFL did their investigation into the accusations and came to the conclusion that Elliott should be suspended because of what they found. As the news came out about what happen that night, and one big then happened. We found out that Elliott wasn’t convicted of any cr...

Joel Embiid, Joel Embiid. That’s the person getting a lot of buzz during the early part of the NBA season. The buzz is very warranted because Embiid has been dominating this NBA season. He is averaging 22.8 points and 10.9 rebounds a game. The thing is he doing this in 29 minutes a game! The way he moves for a 7 footer is insane. He can put the ball on the floor and post up with the best of them. 3 years ago, when he was drafted number 3 by Philadelphia 76ers he was injured. It was soon known that he would miss the whole 2014-2015 season with foot problems. The season goes on and the rumors about Embiid not being able to play the 2015-2016 season due to the same problems. Critics start questioning the 76ers management saying that they wasted a top 3 pick on a player that’s always injured. This seemed be the story of Embiid going forward. We all knew that he was talented, he probably would’ve went first in the 2014 NBA Draft because he was better than everyone else. The injury conc...

Cleveland is going through a bad start of season. People want to get on LeBron and company and say they not making the NBA finals again. They say they are too old not good enough to go through the eastern conference. Most of these are the people that want to see LeBron fail, but some of the “experts” on slots channels have been trying to doubt that Cleveland can make the finals again. I just don’t understand why people cast doubt on Cleveland knowing that they are going to the finals barring any catastrophic injury. One of the reasons I have Cleveland in the NBA finals in 2018 is because the Eastern conference isn’t all that good to be honest. Right now you can’t even tell me who’s the second best team in the Eastern Conference. Everyone thought it was going to be the Boston Celtics and they still might be, but that big injury to Gordon Hayward will make it hard for the Celtics to be be the definite second best team. Kyrie Irving is doing his best to lead his new team this season ...

Kyrie Irving wanted his chance to show that he can be the man. The chance came all the around last night when Gordon Hayward had one of the worst injuries we’ve ever seen. Hayward broke his tibia and fractured his ankle in his Boston debut. The injury hit everyone in the arena hard. It happened right in front of the Cavs bench area and you could see the reaction when they realized what happened. This is an terrible injury and it leaves the Boston Celtics not knowing what to expect from this season anymore. Kyrie said he wanted to grow as a player and a leader and this is where it comes in now. He has to lead a team of young players and Al Horford to the playoffs. The bad rep that Kyrie gets is that he didn’t go to the playoffs in the 3 seasons he led the Cavs. That’s not fair to him because those Cavs teams were terrible and he was injured and missed a lot of games. Kyrie does have to people wrong. Some people think him leading a team just isn’t for him. They think him being t...

In basketball you have different roles for different players on different teams. A good team is created by people knowing their roles an executing these roles to their best ability. In the NBA, you can find people that know how to play their role like a Tony Allen who’s in the game for defense and etc.. These different players can help your team go far in the playoffs and win championships down the line. Usually superstars have their role on offense: Do what you have to for your team to have a chance to win the game. That involves them having the ball to create scoring plays for their teammates or create scoring opportunities for themselves. This comes with being the best player on the basketball team most of the time. If you’re not the Warriors, Cavs, Blazers or the Thunder before Kevin’s Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder if you have a person that can get create their own shot in a close clutch game AND get their teammates involved throughout the game you probably only ha...

How much does certain things keep you relevant? Does things you did years and years ago make you just all popular or all time good? That's the question we ask about the New York Football Giants and their quarterback Eli Manning. The Manning name is big around the NFL as Eli's dad Archie played in the NFL and his brother Peyton is an all time great NFL QB with some NFL records. Eli has won 2 Super Bowls and he beat Tom Brady in both. That seems to carry on his legacy like no other. If you actually look at the play he shouldn't be regarded as a top level QB. Before the 2016 season he missed the playoffs 4 seasons in a row. If you bring up Eli's name everybody would bring up the 2 super bowl seasons the Giants had under his lead. They never bring up any other good seasons that he's had or anything else he's done because he really hasn't done much outside the 2 championships. When you break down someone's career and you look at the overall productio...

As a writer you always want to cover people or events that interest you. You meet people that are just genuinely great people. Basketball can bring you close with people that you probably wouldn't meet. Trentt Whiting is a alumnus of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff like myself but unlike me he's Caucasian and a really great basketball player. You might be thinking didn't Joshua go to HBCU, yes I did and Whiting made himself known for being a good player on the court and not for being white off of it. Being 6'7" and Caucasian on an small HBCU campus it's hard to be missed. Whiting never let that get to him, he always kept his up and just hooped. First year at UAPB he didn't get that much time on the court but he always produced when he was given playing time. Sophomore year Whiting seen a big jump in playing time and he responded with good performances in games. He always known as the person that's going to dunk everything, during this ...

The NFL season has started and it was exciting. People seen their favorite teams play and watched highlights from all the other games. People also noticed something else, Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have a job as an Quarterback in the NFL. People have talked about it all weekend because there were games where a team had person not worth anything playing the position. Remember the sole reason why Kaepernick isn't on a NFL roster. In the 2016 he decided that the our country's flag didn't stand for what we say it stands for so he sat down in protest during the national anthem before games. In the NFL it's players that commit actual crimes like Greg Hardy who the Cowboys signed after the he was convicted of domestic violence, or even Joe Mixon who the Cincinnati Bengals drafted after he hit a woman on camera. This should make you ask yourself, what's really valued in this world today? People can degrade women by committing violent crimes against them and own...

Basketball can be a great teacher in life, it really can show a lot of a person. Things happen in life and some people use basketball to get them away from negativity around the inner city of Los Angeles. The negative activities that happen around here can easily drag you down and not let you achieve your goals. Meet Michaelyn Scott from South Central of Los Angeles, California. Usually when you are as good as Scott is in basketball you would probably hear the person talking on the court. Not with him, Michaelyn is one of the most humble people you can ever meet. He was an 2 time MVP of his high school conference at Washington Prep high school, and an all-city first team performer. You wouldn't know it though....he doesn't go around bragging about the accomplishments that he has. From there he went to Antelope Valley College and he led AVC to a 20-9 record and he also produced averaging 12.7 points and 4.7 assists a game earning California All-State honors. He signed a...

There's a lot of good basketball players that's not in the NBA. As a basketball player you get interested when you get to hang around really good basketball players. It interests you to see what the person does to be as good as they are. Antonio Biglow of Los Angeles, California is better know as the "Swagg Champ" in the Drew League is one of the best players in the city. You will know it's him because he's probably wearing some crazy shoes on the court. Ever since I met him almost 7 or 8 years ago he's always been talked about around the city for his ball handling skills. When you watch him play, it's not just ball handling skills that catches you it's everything he does. He can blow by you with the quick first, he has all the moves to make you foul him and he can get his teammates involved too. He's very unselfish and wants to see his teammates score. He's a pretty good defender too when he wants to be, when you smack talk him he usu...

The NFL season is starting real soon, and this is time that every team (except the Browns, Jets, Bears, 49ers) think they can win the Super Bowl this upcoming season. You see the confidence in every teams head coach and their coaching staff and players. It's good to have this mindset going into the season so you can actually see where your team is where the regular season starts. As it's good to have this confidence going into the season you have to keep it real with yourselves about today's NFL. If you don't have a franchise QB more than likely you have 0 chance of winning the Super Bowl. A franchise QB in today's in NFL is so vital to your teams success, just ask the Raiders about life without Derek Carr, or the Chiefs who always put these good teams around Alex Smith and never reach the AFC championship game. A good QB gives you chance to make the playoffs. A great QB gives you a chance to make the super bowl basically every season. This season college f...

Should the NFL take away it's preseason games? That's the question going around now that one of the NFL best and most popular athletes suffered an injury in a postseason game. Odell Beckham Jr. is one of the NFL best receivers, some people argue him as the best receiver in the whole league. Beckham is also looking to be paid by the Giants as he has super out performed his rookie contract. He is only due 1.8 million dollars this season. This has caused him to look into taking an 100 million dollar insurance policy out on himself getting injured if he and the Giants don't reach an long term deal.  Thing is every time you do football activities like playing in a preseason or regular season game or attending and participating in practice you put yourself at risk to injury. Preseason games put you at risk just like regular season games so. The NFL has to decide is having 4 preseason games to make more money is more important than for example cutting 2 of these games out...