It wasn’t too long ago that the NBA’s Golden State Warriors were the talk of the basketball world. Over the five seasons commencing with the 2014-15 campaign, the Warriors won 79 percent of their regular-season games, 75 percent of their postseason games, reached the NBA Finals all five years, and … Read more
We saw this coming, but the signature move in basketball today is launching a three-point shot attempt. Amazingly, an inanimate, painted object that gets stepped on hundreds of times during a basketball game is now a central part of game strategy. It has totally changed how the sport is taught … Read more
One of the more insignificant impacts of the current global pandemic is the jacked-up 2020 sports calendar. Over time, the sports fan is conditioned to associate certain times of the year with a particular sport, but the events of 2020 have shaken us loose from those norms. We’ve seen our … Read more
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz played an NBA Western Conference Quarterfinal Game Seven in Orlando, Florida. The first six games of this series featured some great individual scoring performances from two of the smaller players in the series: Denver’s 6’4″ guard Jamal Murray and … Read more
So about those NBA seeding games in Orlando which got underway on July 30th as part of the league’s restart: I was one of many folks who questioned the restart, particularly the need for so many games before getting into postseason play. Nearly all of the league’s 16 playoff qualifiers … Read more
On July 31, 2020, the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks competed in one of the so-called “seeding games” in the Orlando, Florida bubble as part of the National Basketball Association’s resumption of its 2019-20 season. The matchup featured two of the top three teams in per-game scoring average and the … Read more
Shortly after the Covid-19 virus shut everything down back in March, every interrupted professional sports league went public with plans to re-open. Some ideas were more ambitious than others, but every idea was based on uncertainties. We still don’t know where this pandemic will take us or how long it … Read more
The challenges of the last couple of months have sent many a sports enthusiast on a hunt for the opportunity to relive some of the happier moments provided by their favorite teams, particularly in the absence of live sports programming. Fans of the NBA’s New York Knickerbockers already knew of … Read more
The National Basketball Association has resumed play after its annual week-long All-Star Break. Each year from mid-February through early April we see the basketball focus shift away from the NBA to high school and college single-elimination tournaments. Players at those levels leave their skin on the court knowing the game … Read more
For each of the National Basketball Association’s 30 teams, the one-third mark of the regular season comes with eight minutes left in the second quarter of the 27th game. With each NBA team either having reached that point or slated to this week for the 2019-20 season, now’s a good … Read more
