We are about 1/4 of the way through the season, so sanity is restoring itself. No, it does not seem that the Jazz are really any good. The Warriors probably are more or less OK. The Suns, Nuggets, and Grizzlies are rising to the top...
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Ben Simmons returning to Philly today is going to be a shitshow of epic proportions. I have trouble seeing this go well for him. I know he's had like 3.
For tonight's open thread, I'm going to focus on players like Dillon Brooks. A lot of people hate Dillon Brooks. That's because he is a mean dude on the court..
No reason for a Tuesday open thread since the league didn't schedule any games so everyone could vote. Good for the NBA. So let's do it today and let's talk about.....Utah? The Jazz were supposed to be terrible this year. When it was clear they...
I wanted to talk about something other than the Nets tonight for our Tuesday NBA open thread, but then they went and fired Steve Nash. What a mess. I don't.
We did an open thread for NBA opening night and we might as well do this every Tuesday night, which after all is the full TNT studio night with Shaq/Barkley/Smith/Johnson,.
By request, we shall have an NBA open thread. A few quick thoughts on the season: First, watching the Nets implode should provide hilarity. How do you have three stars as Kevin Durant is the most normal and well adjusted one? Wow. Steve Nash gets...
This is the grave of Wayman Tisdale. Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964, Tisdale grew up in the church in Tulsa. His father was a well-known pastor up there..
This is the unmarked grave of Reggie Lewis. Born in 1965 in Baltimore, Lewis was a star basketball player by the time he was a child. He attended Dunbar High.
This Vox piece on the impact of the NBA players strike is good. Basically, a lot of actions in the recent strike wave have been about community unionism--striking for the good of the entire community--rather than just your standard pay and hours strikes. The NBA...
The NBA is restarting today after the players' brief strike in support of Jacob Blake. On the Twitter hellscape, there's plenty of lefties who are unhappy about this, saying that.
I was happy to be interviewed for this Marketplace story on the athletes strike last night in protest of police brutality. The quote they used--that NBA billionaire owners could theoretically.