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
For most of the 2018 NBA playoff participants, it’s now time to inactivate the cruise control button–in most cases in effect since early March–and get serious. After about a six-week hiatus, the games count again. Only a handful of teams in the Western Conference got to experience playoff-level intensity at … Read more
The National Basketball Association is in a good place. It is globally popular, has recognizable stars, a healthy television contract and is looking to capitalize on the slowly declining popularity of baseball to improve its standing among the major sports. Even the off-season, while nowhere near as active as baseball’s … Read more
College Basketball tournaments–at all levels–arrive at the best possible time for some hoops fans. It’s March, so the annual NBA Eclipse — at least a partial one, anyway — has arrived. This is the part where the drama of single game elimination conference and national college basketball tournaments relegates the … Read more
The argument has been raging in New York City for years, especially where the New York Knicks are concerned. As the saying goes, you can’t rebuild in New York. Because this is New York. You have to win now, or you have to at least try, or give the appearance … Read more
January marks the point of every NBA season where we begin to hear of NBA rookies — having now surpassed the number of organized games and minutes they’ve ever played in one season at the high school or college levels — showing signs of fatigue enhanced by arm wrestling with … Read more
Does anyone really have fear of the NBA becoming the ABA? During an early-season contest involving the Brooklyn Nets, there was an interview with a gentleman named Herb Turetzky, who has been the Nets’ official scorekeeper since the team’s and American Basketball Association’s (ABA) inception in 1967 as the New … 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
During the summer of 2017, the National Basketball Association decided to extend the number of calendar days in the regular season in an effort to reduce the wear and tear on its athletes, and hopefully lessen the need for teams to rest its top players on game nights. This is … Read more
Based on some of the results of past NBA Draft proceedings, even the most fervent critics of NBA General Managers and Scouts would have to admit that, with very few exceptions, projecting a player’s level of success in the league is an inexact science. This was the case even when … Read more
