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Hip Hop x Basketball -- 9: Renaissance(s)
9:Renaissance(s) The concept that a sport or a genre of music, especially one often marginalized as “not music” like hip hop has often been through its years seems foreign to some. The fact, however, is still that each has had an almost consistently generational window of change that can be expected to take place. In basketball, the change can be usually marked to include a “generation” lasting about the length of the careers of the most prominent players of that time. Often times, you hear them discussed/named in terms of the most prominent players/combinations of those particular times. Examples include the “Celtics dynasty,” the “NBA vs ABA,” of course the vaunted “Magic vs Bird” era, the “Jordan era,” and then the shared “Shaq/Kobe era” and “Spurs dynasty” years. Based upon the best players playing 11-15 years, those five great periods have bridged the time from professional basketball’s days of infancy in the late-40s and 5...
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