That’s right. The 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament is now over, and it’s time to assess. If pundits can grade a team’s draft performance on the very next day and before any draftee suits up for a game at the professional level, there’s no problem with handing out grades for the … Read more
Over the past several weeks I’ve been observing many high school basketball contests online, featuring games played on the East Coast, the West Coast and points in between. It has actually been an amazing journey through different states and cities, as well as the various gymnasiums old and new, with … 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
After the Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant went down with a calf injury in Game Five of the 2019 Western Conference semifinal series against the Houston Rockets, a lot of basketball pundits instantly declared the Houston Rockets favorites to win the series. This was the case even after the Warriors’ … Read more
If it’s summertime and we’re talking NBA basketball, then the discussion probably centers around rookies or free agents. The free agent signing period — at least the big news items — came and went rather quickly. The NBA Draft and the Summer League have now come and gone, but not … Read more
Today we salute the NBA longshots. These are the guys who have defied the odds to earn spots on NBA rosters. They probably weren’t heavily recruited coming out of high school, and many of them certainly weren’t pursued by the traditional college basketball powerhouses. But somehow, they excelled at their … Read more
