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Jan 3, 2025 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
It was in mid-November when the SLAM crew flew into Chicago for the main photo shoot of this special issue. There, at Simeon Career Academy, we shot the cover of this magazine with Derrick Rose, as well as other solo shots in different looks, which you’ll find sprinkled throughout these pages.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
Barely an hour after the NBA draft lottery results were revealed to the world live from Chicago, and just a few blocks away from where the annual ceremony took place, Donovan Clingan and Stephon Castle both arrive on set for our cover shoot at the most picturesque indoor gym in all of America.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
Standing at the top of Powder Mountain in Utah on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-March, Joakim Noah is calling in for our scheduled Zoom interview while on a family vacation with his kids during spring break. You can see the ski goggles resting on his forehead, as he adjusts the phone in front of him while the sun beams in the background. He’ll only have his camera on for a little while before he opts to go off-camera, as he finds himself on the move.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
Niko Carino vividly remembers growing up in a relatively unbeknownst suburb in the east side of Toronto named Scarborough in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. At the time, basketball was just a niche sport in Canada. Yet, in the Carino household, basketball was everything. A first-generation Canadian whose parents migrated from the Philippines, Niko grew up around hoops ever since he could remember. “Filipinos in general, we love basketball. That’s what I was exposed to very young. I got okay at playing.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
He remembers the first doctor visit vividly. Less than 24 hours after suffering a foot injury at a CrawsOver Pro-Am league game in Seattle, Chet Holmgren had flown to Oklahoma City to get it looked at. And as he sat in the x-ray room in front of OKC Thunder GM Sam Presti, a wide range of emotions began to kick in. Hearing him describe it, it sounds like somewhere between guilt, pain, disappointment, sadness and distress. Probably a little hint of all of them.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
For three decades we’ve covered many amazing basketball characters, but some stand above the rest—not only because of their on-court skills (though those are always relevant), but because of how they influenced and continue to influence basketball culture, and thus influenced SLAM. Meanwhile, SLAM has also changed those players’ lives in various ways, as we’ve documented their careers with classic covers, legendary photos, amazing stories, compelling videos and more.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
For three decades we’ve covered many amazing basketball characters, but some stand above the rest—not only because of their on-court skills (though those are always relevant), but because of how they influenced and continue to influence basketball culture, and thus influenced SLAM. Meanwhile, SLAM has also changed those players’ lives in various ways, as we’ve documented their careers with classic covers, legendary photos, amazing stories, compelling videos and more.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
For three decades we’ve covered many amazing basketball characters, but some stand above the rest—not only because of their on-court skills (though those are always relevant), but because of how they influenced and continue to influence basketball culture, and thus influenced SLAM. Meanwhile, SLAM has also changed those players’ lives in various ways, as we’ve documented their careers with classic covers, legendary photos, amazing stories, compelling videos and more.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
slamonline.com | Franklyn Calle
Newport, Maine. Population…roughly 3,000. It is here where the epicenter of the biggest story in high school basketball originates. It is here where one of the most highly touted high school prospects in recent memory began his hoops odyssey. A journey that technically can be traced back to the early 1990s.
