Because the NBA signed a $9 billion TV contract last year, the salary cap figures to increase by more than 60 per cent two years from now. Translated, that means it’ll jump from $67.1 million today to $108 million for the 2017-18 season. Multiply by 30 teams and the result is $3.2 BILLION, the total […]
Last week, the Suns’ Suits and their media handmaidens tried to convince the ticket-buying public that giving 33-year-old Tyson Chandler $52 million and sore-footed (take your pick: heel or ankle) Brandon Knight $70 million was going to somehow encourage LaMarcus Aldridge to join the team. Dealing Marcus Morris to the Pistons for a second-round pick […]
Phil Jackson in a “Bleacher Report” article said pretty much what Mr. Research and I have been saying all year: the NBA game has changed, and not for the good.
“I watch LeBron James, for example,” (Jackson) said. “He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball if he’s off the ball. He catches the […]
This time of year in the NBA, with all the signings, hirings and firings, there are always a few hidden gems. The Oklahoma City Thunder, with two-time NCAA title coach Billy Donovan (Florida) now at the helm, named Monty Williams, Maurice Cheeks, and Anthony Grant assistant coaches. Grant was a long-time Donovan assistant before head […]
After Houston’s season-ending loss to Golden State, an interviewer asked James Harden if he was tired and exhausted. After a short pause, he said, ”I’m 25 years old, man.”
End of interview and end of story.
But here’s another story: When I was a young man, just turned 24 and playing in the All-Army tournament at Fort […]
A little less than four weeks left until June 25 and the Suns, of course, “will take the best player available.” By the time lucky number pick 13 rolls around, the children will be off the board and an old (22) guy like Wisconsin’s workhorse seven-footer, Frank Kaminsky, might still be around. I’m waiting until […]
The dogs were out after Game 6 between Houston and the LA Clippers. James Harden was not in the game when his team roared back from a huge deficit and won “going away” to force a seventh game. Back in Houston, though, he did what an MVP runner-up should do and, like what he did […]
Rich Eisen, NFL Network, tweeted this discerning quip:
“Isiah Thomas must have pictures of every single employer on Earth.”
And so Isiah Thomas goes back to work for James Dolan as an executive with the WNBA New York Liberty. Never mind, apparently, that when he departed his New York Knicks’ front-office job, he was the focus […]
Along with all the measurements the analytical numbers guys love, this year’s camp is having more 5 on 5 scrimmages. Could you imagine, say, a Larry Bird going through Chicago Camp and not being given the opportunity of playing 5 on 5? How would anyone have known that he really knew how to play – […]