The NBA Slam Dunk Contest and David Stern Market Politics
Last season the East beat the West in the NBA All Star game 134-128. I had to look that up. Last season Sophomores beat the Rookies in the Rookie challenge, same as every year. Last season Jason Kapono...
View ArticleBasketball’s Wunderkinds
Basketball is a young mans game. Sure every gym has its share of gym rats in their 40s that can come out and play solid ball, slowing the game down and offering sage advice that nobody really cares...
View ArticleNBA Midseason Award Melodrama
I will never be a professional basketball player. The market for six-foot white guys with a broken jump shot with absolutely no rotation on the ball, barely enough hops to touch the rim, and the...
View ArticleLeBron James: The Loss That Led to Greatness
I like everyone else was excited by the possibility of watching the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers play in the NBA Finals. I relished the thought of watching LeBron James and Kobe...
View ArticleNBA First Quarter Awards
Without much ado or an awkward introductory paragraph let’s get to the meat of this blog entry: the first-quarter awards of the 2009-10 NBA season. First-Quarter MVP: LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers...
View ArticleYou May be able to See Superman with Cavs Tickets, but His Name ain’t Shaq
For those that follow the NBA it is just about impossible to go through a news cycle without listening to a quote from Shaq. About a month ago Shaq called out Dwight Howard (who famously donned a cape...
View ArticleChris Paul, Dwight Howard, and the Small Market
Welcome to the beginning of the NBA season, a season that has yet to begin but has all the lingering nerves of a pregnancy scare. It all began when the management of two small market teams tried to...
View ArticleNew York Knicks Tickets
Now that the season has taken a turn for the worse, since they are 5-4 and the season is already far too advanced for to turn it around, the ever-unhappy Knicks fans are in search of the next mythical...
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