Without mentioning any names… I mean, maybe he thought… OK – I’m hoping this story about a 23-year-old NBA player with a medical history that includes major knee surgery (torn ACL in 2013) turning down a contract offer from the Dallas Mavericks of about $70 million guaranteed over four years, … Read more
At the end of the 2016-17 NCAA College Basketball season, there were 351 member schools (translation: about 200 too many) with Division 1 classification. Beginning with the 2018-19 season, two more schools will be joining: California Baptist University and the University of North Alabama. With so many schools within one … Read more
So exactly how does one analyze an NBA schedule? It’s not like the National Football League where you have a real “strength of schedule” based on a limited number of out-of-division opponents, because in the NBA everyone plays everyone else at least twice. But the August 14 schedule release was … Read more
For the last three NBA seasons the Golden State Warriors have been dominant, compiling an utterly ridiculous regular-season record of 207 wins against only 39 defeats while winning two championships and nearly winning a third. To put those regular-season numbers in perspective, during the 2016-17 campaign alone, 20 of the … Read more
It’s August – arguably the worst month on the calendar for the hoops junkie. The NBA playoffs ended two months ago, the 2017-18 season begins two months from now, and the college and high school seasons begin even later than that. The NBA Draft was held in late June followed … Read more
Let’s try this again with Volume 3 – perhaps the easiest of the bunch so far, especially if you’re a true fan of the Golden State Warriors. For this set of questions, the second half of the quiz is designed to test one’s knowledge of the Golden State Warriors who … Read more
The NBA has enacted many rule changes during its 72-year history. Some of us old-timers remember when there was a jump ball at the start of every quarter, the 24-second clock was on the baseline floor in the corner, a player fouled while scoring when his team was in the bonus … Read more
