Last year when Matt Barnes was with the Clippers, Reggie Miller chirped up and announced, “Every NBA team needs a Matt Barnes.” Wouldn’t you know it? Guess who now has a place on the Memphis roster? Admittedly, it just SEEMS like every team, literally, has had a Matt Barnes but, in fact, he’s only been […]
In the old days, NBA rosters were capped at ten or 11 players but, often, because of injuries, teams would suit as few as seven or eight players. Today, if you’re paying attention and counting noses in the huddle, NBA teams have more assistant coaches than we had players.****
Does anyone really care why Carson Palmer left the Cincinnati Bengals? I’m just happy we have him here in Arizona.****
After a brief time out, Mister Research and I have returned! While on brief hiatus, I was lured to a Houston Chronicle headline: HAWKS THUMP WIZARDS. What revelations were contained in the accompanying article, what with Washington turning the ball over 26 times, Atlanta missing its first eight shots and 13 of the first 15. […]
With only a handful of really good teams, and a bunch of rebuilding clubs or teams in transition (read that: bad teams), the NBA opened for business this week. The owners, the fans, the press, and even the folks at league headquarters all have bought into “the build for the future” mantra. “Don’t worry,” they […]
With football now in full swing, have you noticed that the players’ pants are getting shorter? So, now, we have basketball shorts getting longer while football pants are getting shorter. And, of course, most of the baseball pants have been dragging on the ground for a generation or more. I don’t know what to make […]
Because Tyson Chandler “knows what it is like to come to work with ruffled feathers” – or so goes the Arizona Republic version – the headline writer suggests he will somehow “reacclimate Markieff Morris” … who isn’t talking until Media Day (Sept. 28), either about what influence the 14-year, six-team journeyman Chandler is or isn’t […]
After watching almost as many NBA games as I have, Mr. Research came up with this gem: “The longer the uniform shorts (pants), the worse the game has become.”
Also, with the NBA season just around the corner, here is another tidbit to whet your appetite: In 1966-67, my first season as an NBA coach (assistant) […]
(I bet there aren’t many people who know who made that his signature phrase. A couple of clues: His real last name was Israel and, although a Yankee through and through, he was born in Birmingham, Alabama.)
In 1955, the champion Syracuse Nationals each received … ice buckets … as mementos of the team’s only ever NBA title. Sixty years later, to the day, Howard Dolgon, owner of the Syracuse Crunch hockey team, presented ceremonial championship rings to the team’s surviving members — Dolph Schayes, Bill Kenville, and Jim Tucker. Billy Gabor, […]