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(They Know They Got) Skillz: The 1999-00 Blazers
(Sean Highkin is the founder of One Thirty BPM, and a former editor for Rip City Project. Each week, his “Got Skillz” column will look at an NBA player, current or former, who has made a foray into...
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Got Skillz: Shaq, Ron Artest, and Michael Jackson
As I’d imagine most people reading this did, I found out about Michael Jackson’s death while watching the 2009 NBA draft, and it made it considerably more difficult for me to care which cities Stephen...
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Got Skillz: Dwight Howard Sings For The Kids
Out of the current crop of NBA superstars, Dwight Howard is the most likeable and personable. Hardly anybody would dispute this. His co-opting of Shaq’s “Superman” persona was savvy not only because...
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Got Skillz: Kanye and Jay-Z, LeBron and Wade
Photo courtesy of Billboard.com. This edition of Got Skillz is not, strictly speaking, about the musical pursuits of basketball players. As anybody with a functional Twitter account no doubt is well...
View ArticleGot Skillz: Sheed Week Edition
In 2002, Rasheed Wallace hosted a hip-hop show on Portland’s sadly defunct Jammin’ 95.5. I remember listening to it, but I can remember precisely nothing about it. I had hoped to find episodes online,...
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Got Skillz: “Diop Diop”— The Greatest DeSagana Diop-Themed Rap Video in History
Photo via lebasketbawl.com. In lockout hell that was the summer of 2011, Sean Highkin started a series on Hardwood Paroxysm called “Got Skillz,” which covered various NBA players’ forays into...
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Got Skillz: Stak5 feat. Kevin Durant –“Lonely at the Top”
Photo via Miroslav Petrasko on Flickr. Kevin Durant’s rap debut is a pretty big deal. Not just because of his status as the second-most important player in the NBA, but also because it had the...
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Got Skillz: Iman Shumpert aka 2wo 1ne – Th3 #Post90s
Iman Shumpert is not an unconfident man. We know this from the Knicks guard’s outsized on-court personality (he constantly refers to himself as “Shump-Shump” in the third person when trash-talking...
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