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
In New York City, fans of local professional sports have always had plenty of options, With two franchises in each of the major team sports, there are increased odds, at least in theory, that a competitive team will emerge from so many entries. So here we are in late September … 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
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to tap into our creativity. In an attempt to simulate real game conditions in the absence of attendees in indoor and outdoor venues, several major team sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey have resorted to using fan cutout placards to fill the … Read more
The sports phrases most commonly used by announcers aren’t the only things we learn through repetitive listening. Words we are first exposed to via spelling and vocabulary tests in school or on college board exams are often reinforced by watching sports. Though fairly common, these aren’t words we’d use in … Read more
Anyone who has played or watched basketball, irrespective of level, has witnessed the athletic mismatch. It can be a professional game where one team is just constructed better than the other. It can be one of those pre-conference college basketball mismatches between teams from different divisions. It can be a … Read more
NCAA Division 1 College Basketball. Brought to you by the 346 participating institutions of higher learning and the 32 conferences they compete in. All the academic sharpness you can handle can be found on some of those sprawling campuses. But if you are a true follower of college hoops, you … Read more
In keeping with the trend towards increased accessibility into the inner workings of an NBA contest–a trend serious enough to give spectators who are able and willing to pay for the privilege a better view of game action than some of the assistant coaches–the nationally-televised games will occasionally feature an … Read more
During the course of an NBA season we hear a lot of statements from personalities considered authorities of the sport that, upon further examination, are debatable. Sometimes we hear these statements so often we just meekly accept them. Not a big deal, but after hearing these utterances once again leading … Read more
