The Basketball Section

Close your eyes and try to picture this; Tim Duncan, one of the greatest players in basketball history. He's down in the paint, backing down a defender...while wearing a Phoenix Suns jersey. You can't do it, can you? What about an Atlanta Hawks jersey? Not that one either, right? How about anything other than a San Antonio Spurs jersey? It's impossible, isn't it? Some players have become so synonymous with certain teams that it's impossible to imagine them playing for anyone else. Just imagining Kobe Bryant or Magic Johnson not playing for the Lakers is practically out of the question, and guys like Stephen Curry have made it hard to see them any other team. Of course, for guys like Curry, playing for one team their entire career isn't the case. Sometimes they get traded away, sometimes they sign with another team, sometimes they come out of retirement, but whatever way it happens, they are moves that ended career-long runs with one team. With that being said...

Anyone who's followed my old blog or follows me on Twitter knows that along with basketball and terrible jokes only your dad likes, one of my other loves is professional wrestling. I used to have a blog about it, but I've since turned all my attention to this blog. However, with WrestleMania 34 right around the corner (not to mention the fact that today is Rusev Day of all days), I'm going back to my roots and looking at some of the times the NBA & professional wrestling crossed paths. Some were great, some were awful, but here are 7 times the NBA crossed-over into the squared circle. Shaquille O'Neal Starting off this list is one of the few basketball players to ever step in a wrestling ring and actually compete in a match. In 2009, O'Neal appeared on Monday Night RAW during a time where every week, RAW had a celebrity guest host, such as megastars Jeremy Piven, Verne Troyer, and Al Sharpton. It was a truly awful time to be alive. One of the first cele...

*All statistics used in this post are from BasketballReference.com When people talk about records in the NBA, they tend to focus on the most glamorous ones. Wilt Chamberlain and his single-game point record, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his career total points record, and Ray Allen career three-pointer record all get brought up and are key parts of those three players legendary careers. However, not every record is one people want to remember, and ones that the players who hold them don't want to think about. Here are 7 NBA players who have unfortunate records Karl Malone Record: Most Career Turnovers Starting off the list we have a two-time MVP and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Karl Malone. Over his 19-year career, Malone solidified himself as one of the greatest power forwards in the history of basketball. For his career, Malone averaged 25 points and 10.1 rebounds while shooting 52% from the field. With stats like that, it's no surprise Malone was select...