I’m old enough to remember when the annual NBA Draft ran for 10 rounds. Things have changed over time, and now the draft runs for only two rounds, still giving 60 NBA hopefuls from college and international squads the chance to hear their names called on that special night. What … Read more
What would a televised sporting event be without announcers? One network tried to get cute and experimented with the idea during a football game and it flopped. As viewers, some of us are tuned in to the announcers while others can tune them out completely. I belong to the former … Read more
Today I woke up early and somehow managed to take advantage of one of those cool, crisp, and cloudless September mornings to venture to a nearby park and to shoot some hoops. This marked a bit of a milestone for me, as this was the first time I’d touched a … Read more
So the National Basketball Association is really going to go through with this “bubble” thing. The NBA is going ahead with the continuation of its 2019-20 regular season inside a bubble in Orlando, Florida. Several players had already backed out before the training camps started, and others have since left … 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
Yes, the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets collided at the sold-out Barclays Center in the 2019-20 NBA season’s second contest for both teams, both teams were cheered and both teams were booed, the fans in the building were split in their allegiances and traded taunts, and the players … Read more
Those of us who are fans of the Peanuts gang certainly remember growing up watching the Halloween program entitled, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, where a pathetic Linus character waits in what he believes to be a chosen pumpkin patch for a fictional Great Pumpkin to rise and shower … Read more
NCAA Division 1 College Basketball. Brought to you by the 346 participating institutions of higher learning and the 32 conferences they compete in. All the academic sharpness you can handle can be found on some of those sprawling campuses. But if you are a true follower of college hoops, you … Read more
The college basketball blowout — especially during November and December when tuneup games and scrimmages are common and teams of clearly different talent levels find themselves on the same court — is fairly common. Heck, even perennial powerhouse Kentucky lost by 34 points against Duke on November 6th. Teams from … Read more
Basketball fans who were born in the mid-1960’s and prior have seen the evolution of the sport in ways we never thought possible. We may like some of the changes and dislike others, but at the end it’s still basketball. It’s not until we reflect back on what we used … Read more
