So far we’ve taken the basketball commentary back to the 1970’s and kept one eye on current events, so it’s only fair that we take a peek into the future for professional and college hoops, featuring an arbitrarily selected year of 2040 – 23 years ahead. Considering how much the … Read more
Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of NBA player movement during the Summer of 2017. There was a flurry of activity in early July, then things slowed down considerably. Still, some of the league’s top players will have new addresses for the 2017-18 NBA season while others are still … Read more
There are certainly no Raptors in Toronto, hopefully there are no Bulls in Chicago, and a drive through New York City’s largest borough will reveal very few outdoor basketball hoops in Brooklyn with Nets on them. So while there is no rule stating that professional sports franchises must have a … Read more
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
