NBA Basketball Art Collection 2018

Basketball Art Collection 2:
Celebrating the 2018 NBA Playoffs
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curated by YellowMenace (50+ images)

   This is an all new batch of over 50 basketball art creations by 14 incredible international artists, along with a review of the most intriguing events in the association this year. The surprisingly dramatic, injury-filled 2017-18 NBA season & Conscious Basketball's second annual tribute to the Golden State Warriors "Dubz Against the World 2" inspired me to assemble this collection. Enjoy!

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Hyper3 Ye (China) - 8 pics
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   Hyper Three Ye's heroic comic book style & ability to compose dynamic action poses makes him an in-demand sports illustrator around the world.

  The popularity of basketball art is definitely growing, the first YellowMenace Basketball Art Collection, last year was one of my most popular posts of all time. Let's continue to support these fantastic artists by crediting & tagging them in reposts, retweets, reblogs, repins, etc & buying their official prints & merch when possible.

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▶ See PART 1: Basketball Art Collection 2017

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ART: MinSuk Kim (김민석) - NBA 2014-15 Season in Review

MinSuk Kim (김민석) - (17 works)

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   With the NBA Playoffs upon us, I thought it would be fun to take a visual review of this year's outstanding players via MinSuk's stylish illustrations.

    MinSuk aka Kwang33 is one of the leading sports illustrators in Korea. He designs for several sports organizations, magazines & international clients. He has worked 10 years as the lead designer for the Korean magazine, "Rookie" which covers the NBA. He illustrates for the Korean Basketball League as well as Jumpball magazine which covers the KBL. He shares many of his designs on his Facebook page NBA Illustration.

   This has been Stephan Curry's year. Truly a special season where everything seemed to come together for the Warriors. I think Steve Kerr is a very special basketball mind & his time with Gregg Popovich has had a lot to do with his current success. But Curry is the glue of the team, with his on court domination, focus & demeanor with Kerr & teammates which brought them to 67 wins & will take them deep into the playoffs.

B-BALL: Lin Art

Jeremy Lin: Point Guard, Houston Rockets

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   With the first few games of the 2014 NBA Playoffs already played, The Rockets look like they will fall in the first round to the Blazers.

   I thought I'd share some of the Jeremy Lin art I've been collecting from around the net before the Rockets season is over.

 Tak Wong - Young Dragon 

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   I've read some harshly critical comments re: Lin's performance in the Playoffs, which is all part of the 'Linsanity' backlash, which is subconsciously racist. Secret KKK trolls loaf in their computer chairs waiting for Lin to foul up.

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   In truth the entire Rockets team has been incredibly inconsistent against the Blazers, 2 mistakes for every good play. But Harden & Howard must shoulder the bulk of the blame as they got the big money 2 shine on this very stage, so far there have only been a few glimmers of superstar play.

 Jerry Ma - 3 teams

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   This is my first post about Lin, but I became a fan back when I saw him in Summer League for the Golden State Warriors. My hopes were super high for the first Asian-American to shine in the NBA. He couldn't do it with the Warriors, but we all know what happened in New York.