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
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
When a college basketball team scores over 100 points in a game, it raises some eyebrows. When we hear of a college team finishing a game with less than 25 points, we check for accuracy. When both rarities occur during the same contest, it’s time to dig a little deeper. … 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
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to tap into our creativity. In an attempt to simulate real game conditions in the absence of attendees in indoor and outdoor venues, several major team sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey have resorted to using fan cutout placards to fill the … Read more
The sports phrases most commonly used by announcers aren’t the only things we learn through repetitive listening. Words we are first exposed to via spelling and vocabulary tests in school or on college board exams are often reinforced by watching sports. Though fairly common, these aren’t words we’d use in … 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
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
