Sports & The Real Sh*t

Welcome back to Sports & The Real Sh*t. While the NBA season may be over, there's never a lack of topics to cover with offseason transactions getting kicked off. In this episode, I give my thoughts on the hot topics of the last couple of weeks since the NBA finals ended. I also go into detail about why I believe basketball in the USA is at risk of losing its place as the best in the world.  So...

The 2023 NBA Playoffs are over. The Denver Nuggets are 2023 NBA Champions...and Nikola Jokic is the best player in the league. The NBA season is over, but that doesn't mean the conversation stops. In this episode, I give my thoughts on the NBA Finals and discuss why the Nuggets have the best 1-2 punch in the NBA which sets them up for long-term success. I also discuss why the Suns shouldn't have f...

Growing up as a Haitian in America in the early 90s, there's no way I could've predicted that I would one day be wearing the jersey of the best rookies in the NBA, and that player would be Haitian. The adversity we faced as a community in Haiti and the U.S. stifled many young athletes' potential.  However, in recent years, more and more young Haitians are reaching the professional level in basketb...

With the conference finals of the 2023 NBA Playoffs coming to an end it's time to get ready for a great finals matchup between the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets.  Before we get there, I take a look back at how the conference finals match-ups went down. The Celtics kept up their inconsistent, dumb, analytics ball and it came back to haunt them against a well-coached and disciplined Heat team. Meanw...

Scottie Pippen is one of the greatest players to ever step on an NBA floor. The original point forward. But for some reason, most NBA fans only remember him as a sidekick to Michael Jordan. Jordan made Scottie these fans say. And although he led the Chicago Bulls to 55 wins in 1994, finished 3rd in MVP voting, and won the NBA All-Star Game MVP, the part that sticks out about the season for most fa...

Everything from movies and TV shows, social media and music, all of it paints the picture that young black men are all violent and gangsters. And all this exposure influences many black kids into feeling as if they need to be what the media is portraying as cool and powerful.  That's where I think Ja Morant is - an exciting NBA player who grew up in a positive family environment is acting like som...

The conference finals of the 2023 NBA playoffs are here. Before we move on, I provide a recap of round 2 - some good (Anthony Davis was dominant) and some bad (Embiid, Harden and the Sixers fold again).  Also covered... The Nuggets are good.  Stop the Kevin Durant slander.  Celtics are too inconsistent.  Julius Randle isn't a #2 for a contender. Shaq would've destroyed the dynasty Warriors. Plus m...

There are few feelings worse in sports than when you're on a good team and plan on winning several games in a row only to lose to a team you had no business losing to. That's what happened to Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs against the Miami Heat. And while the Memphis Grizzlies didn't have the same advantage over the Lakers, they still had a more complete team and shou...

It feels like Christmas because the NBA playoffs are finally here. It's time for real basketball to be played. The ballers come out and the fakers go on vacation.  In this special edition of the Sports & The Real Sh*t Podcast, I do a recap of the NBA regular season for each of the playoff teams in the eastern and western conference and give my prediction as to how the first round will go down....

Does everything have to be about race? Can we please stop playing the race card? Despite the efforts of some to squash those conversations, every once in a while, we experience these flashpoints in our society that reminds us that racism and racial bias are alive and well, and ignoring them will not make them go away.  Recently, the conversations in the sports world around Nikola Jokic's NBA MVP c...

We're always told that if you work hard then you can achieve anything. What is often left unsaid is how much luck goes into success and achieving your goals. How is it that two people can have the same talent level, put in the same amount of work, but end up with very different levels of success? One word: LUCK! Stephen Curry may be the biggest example of lucky in sports. He's considered one of th...

Lamar Jackson and other NFL players deserve guaranteed contracts.  But... Load management has become a big thing for NBA players and teams. Unfortunately, fans are left either watching an inferior product on TV or paying for tickets to the game only for star players to be sitting out. While it's a trendy topic to discuss right now, what hasn't been talked about enough, in my opinion, is the impact...

"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" - a quote from the classic movie, A Bronx Tale. Unlike many older NBA fans, I do believe that today's NBA players can play, and even dominate, in the 80s and 90s NBA. But something is lacking.  In this episode, I discuss how players from the modern era would handle previous era's brand of basketball. I also talk about why all of their abilities will amo...

Welcome back to Sports & The Real Sh*t.  In this episode, I talk about the accomplishment of Lebron James achieving the goal of becoming the all-time leading scorer in NBA history and show appreciation for the excellence he has displayed since  he was a 16-year old on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I also dive head-first into the GOAT debate, comparing Lebron to Michael Jordan, and tell you...

Welcome to the first episode of the Sports & The Real Sh*t podcast.  In today's episode, I discuss how the NFL propaganda machine has created the term "elite quarterback" to lead fans to believe that only a special few, god-like QBs can win a super bowl in the NFL - Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Joe Burrow. These types of QBs can win no matter what's around them and if you don't have one of...