It’s not so often someone like Steph Curry comes into the NBA with his imprint all over the game. The Portland/Golden State match-up was a classic example. Damian Lillard is a nice player. He can get his own shot and, for the most part, shoot the ball a lot. But he doesn’t do much for […]
You all see it, night after night, game after game, whether it’s OKC-San Antonio, or Toronto-Indiana, or Golden State-Portland. After the game, Ken Mauer says we should have seen Waiters fouling Ginobli. And the league’s day-after “two-minute report” says DeRozan made “body contact” with Mahinmi, “dislodging him and affecting his ability to catch the alley-oop […]
I’m still gob-smacked at something I saw near the end of Game 5 at Toronto, on which the Raptor-Pacer series turned, featured the home team’s and which fourth-quarter comeback. It happened after the Raptors’ 15-2 run tied the game at 92 … Indiana, desperately trying to right the ship, had called time out.
You know […]
The Curse of Donald Sterling once-dysfunctional Los Angeles Clippers, on their way to respectability, are again struck by disaster, what with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin both on the hospital list. Question: was it the curse of Donald Sterling or was it just the fates intervening to spare us TV glimpses of the “courtside goofball” […]
Okay, the San Antonio vein popped up – no pun intended — in the recent GM hire in Brooklyn. The Nets hired Sean Marks, ex-player and assistant GM with the San Antonio Spurs. He quickly hired as his head coach Kenny Atkinson, who was an Atlanta Hawks assistant coach under Mike Budenholzer, who had served […]
You know how I feel about “The Suits” in the front office of the Suns. I am happy, though, that an ex-NBA player, Earl Watson, got the permanent head coaching job. I just hope they made the decision sans player sentiment. While I’m at it, I wish the general manager would stop saying nonsense such […]
The Atlanta Hawks were last year’s surprise team. This year it is the Boston Celtics. After a 48-win season, they are looking forward to the June 23 NBA draft. The one thing most people seem to forget, however, is that a first-round draft choice in this day and age isn’t anything like a first-round draft pick was […]
Reading Sam Hinkie’s THIRTEEN-page resignation letter http://bit.ly/1VPk1X7 left me (almost) speechless. After reading it the second time, I have come to a conclusion: the guy could qualify as certifiable.
So … all you Hinkie apologists, stop with the making excuses and get the man some help!
I might add, after many years in the business, anayltics need to […]
Lest anyone get the idea wearing the NBA crown is an easy thing, remember:
There have been 18 expansion teams … but only eight of those franchises have won titles, 16 of them in total. Three of the eight franchises have won multiple titles (Chicago 6, Miami 3, Houston, nee San Diego, 2).
There were four ABA […]