SLAM founder Dennis Page and his now 30-year-old magazine earned the Curt Gowdy Transformative Media Award as part of the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year, reports Jason Jones of The Athletic.
The magazine was a major cultural force in the 1990s, and supplied a fresh, unique voice in the basketball media space. SLAM has sold over 300 million copies across its three decades of life thus far.
“We were really on the outside of the party looking in, and we just told people the party sucked,” Tony Gervino, the publication’s first editor-in-chief, said. “That’s why we were on the outside. We got into it, then we sort of roughed it up a bit.”
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