The National Basketball Association ranks as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world. Fans of the league suffer through the interminable NBA-free months of August and September in anticipation of the start of a new season. But despite its popularity, there are some issues the league … Read more
NBA player rankings can be found anywhere there’s a discussion about the league. Whether the source is a sports media outlet, a video game, or a fan post on social media, NBA player rankings are popular and guaranteed to spark a debate. And given the arbitrary nature of some of … Read more
The NBA season is a marathon. Training camps, four or five pre-season games, an 82-game regular-season with an All-Star break tossed in, and four rounds of post-season play make the NBA as much about attrition as talent and coaching. Only the players can tell us what that grind is physically … Read more
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
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
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
It’s mid-July, and summer outdoor tournaments are going full blast all over the country. Without even trying, these basketball gatherings represent the sport in its purest form, be it an organized tournament or just a pickup game where a bunch of guys and gals go to battle for the sheer … Read more
The language of the NBA continues to reflect the league’s image-consciousness as well as its sense of humor. Every season there are a number of teams for which winning is obviously not a priority, in hopes of of “earning” a high pick in that summer’s NBA Draft. Not sure what … Read more
The October portion of the 2018-19 NBA Schedule is now behind us. There were some incredible contests and individual performances to enjoy, but even the most-offensive-minded hoops fan would have to admit something strange is going on. Points are being scored at a nearly unprecedented rate, and one has to … Read more
