I think I might’ve just had the best time at an NBA basketball game that I’ve ever had. The game itself was okay. (New Orleans led from start to finish. With a little help from Dick Bavetta, Miami feigned a run near the end before fizzling out for good. Aside from a brief second quarter [...]
Archive for December 2009
Dispatch from New Orleans 1 comment
The Wizard Woes Hit New Lows Leave a comment
ESPN Zone: Where the NBA Doesn’t Happen Leave a comment
Yesterday my buddy G and I spent the entire afternoon trying to find a sports bar in downtown Washington, D.C. showing the Dallas Mavericks-Memphis Grizzlies game. We went to six different bars. We must’ve seen close to 100 T.V. screens. And not one of them was showing the only NBA game being played in the [...]
Reading the Book of Basketball: Part IV (Russell, Then Wilt) Leave a comment
(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense.) Chapter II: Russell, then Wilt pgs. 57-83 Is Russell-Wilt in fact the “greatest debate in NBA history”? Simmons seems to think so; I don’t really care. It’s just not that important to me. I respect and [...]
Reading The Book of Basketball Part III (The Secret) Leave a comment
(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense.) The Secret P. 30-56 I’m going to tweak the format of my analysis from here on out, or at least for the next couple of chapters. Instead of working from big themes, I’m just going to [...]
Old School Hip Hop Making a Comeback? Leave a comment
So, I’m watching the Hornets-Warriors game last night when I heard Heavy D’s (featuring Aaron Hall) 1991 hit Now That We Have Love playing inside the New Orleans Arena. I thought it was kind of interesting. You don’t normally hear old school New Jack Swing in NBA arenas. Then I saw this Nike commercial featuring KRS-One [...]
Milwaukee’s Squad 6 1 comment
I was watching the Wizards-Bucks game in Milwaukee last night when I noticed something just felt different about the Bradley Center. There’s something in the air there. The crowd sounds different, almost like a college game. The players on both sides even seem to play with a higher level of intensity in the Bradley Center. [...]
Nets’ Move to New York Imminent Leave a comment
My buddy Chessa sent me an e-mail last night about the Nets moving to Brooklyn. Looks like it’s really a go…finally. I snagged this from The New York Times’ City Room Sometime after 9:49 Wednesday morning, the developer Bruce C. Ratner put down his pen after signing 640 separate documents relating to the closing on his [...]
Reading the Book of Basketball: Part II (The Four-Dollar Ticket) 1 comment
(If you haven’t read the apologia already, you may want to start here. Trust me, everything will make more sense) Prologue: The Four-Dollar Ticket Pages 1-29 The Role of Chance What if? It’s the leading theme of the prologue. What if Papa Simmons had bought the motorcycle instead of the Celtics tickets What if Russell [...]
It is officially official: the Wizards have to make a move. They simply have to. The last three losses to Minnesota, Memphis and Oklahoma City have finally sealed it for me. I’ve been thinking this through for the last week now. My hope was that the Milwaukee win would turn things around. I thought they [...]