Like any red-blooded basketball junkie I’m part of multiple e-mail chains. Work chains. Homeboy chains. Family chains. Heck, my mother and I even have aplayoff text chain. Seriously, this woman got off the plane from St. Thomas last night and immediately texted me to find out a) what happened to the Lakers and b) what [...]
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A Reluctant Fan Welcomes Back the NBA with Unopen Arms 1 comment
Random Tuesday Morning Playoff Rant Leave a comment
The 3 From Deep Podcast: Playoff Smorgasbord 1.0 Leave a comment
We’re smack dab in the thick of one of the most electrifying, shocking and, for some, disorienting playoff seasons in recent memory. San Antonio’s gone, maybe for the foreseeable future. Zach Randolph is making us all wonder why he’s the only 20-10 guy outside of Lamarcus Alrdridge getting no All-Star love. Atlanta wants us to [...]
The 3 From Deep Podcast: The Annual Awards Cast Leave a comment
It’s time hand out the annual NBA accolades. In this final regular season episode the fellas cast their votes for this year’s best Sixth Man, Rookie, Most Improved Player, Defensive Player, Coach and Executive. Some are no brainers but a couple just might surprise you. Or piss you off. Click to listen
Slurgate: Kobe Bryant and The Joys of Being a Jerk Leave a comment
Some stories simply can’t be avoided. You ignore them or downplay them as long as you can but somehow they keep making appearances, keep demanding to be taken into consideration. Over the last 48 hours the Kobe Bryant-inspired Slurgate has done just that. Everywhere I look I see Bryant’s face, the word “slur” and the [...]
Eastern Conference Playoff Previews Leave a comment
Since the playoff match-ups in the East are locked and loaded, I figured now is as good a time as any to get off my ass and write something. I’m not even going to bother apologizing or making excuses for my lax ways. I’ve been watching ball and running my mouth but actually sitting down [...]
The 3 From Deep Podcast: First the Appetizer; Next the Main Course Leave a comment
The NCAA Championship game may have been a dud, but the tournament itself was, arguably, one for the ages. The networks finally figured out the magic formula for making fans happy and once-obscure players, coaches and (more than a handful of) schools made themselves household names for years to come. But did we, ultimately, see [...]
Uncle Tom Strikes Again: Duke, The Fab Five and the Twenty-Year-Old Beef that Finally Hit the Fan 5 comments
Like a lot of people, I watched the Fab Five documentary this past Sunday. And like a lot of heads my age, I felt a mix of nostalgia, pride, excitement and disappointment. I’d forgotten some details but most of the footage reminded me a) how good college basketball used to be before the NBA started [...]
The 3 From Deep Podcast: TearGate Leave a comment
Is Miami’s slide being blown out of proportion or is there real cause for concern? Is the media relishing the Heat’s misery or is this just par for the course in modern sports journalism? Is this superstar triumverate good enough to right the ship or is there something else — coaching, leadership, age, a [...]
The 3 From Deep Podcast: A Career on Trial Leave a comment
What do Jeff Van Gundy, Tracy McGrady, Macolm Gladwell, Adam Morrison and The Real Housewives of Miami have in common? Give up? In this podcast dedicated to the cult of the Gladwell’s “10,000 hours” maxim they all collide to make one beautifully rendered medley of podcast potluckery. To listen to this oh so delectable [...]
The 2011-2012 NBA season is barely two weeks old and already the machine is in full effect mode. League headlines have been an almost daily occurrence. The retirement of promising young Portland star Brandon Roy; Jeff Green’s season-ending, contract voiding heart ailment; Nets owner Mikhail Portokohov’s campaign presidency; Kobe’s divorce; Lamar Odom‘s dis; Dwight Howard’s [...]