Photo by Pro Church Media on Unsplash And just like that – to steal a line from play-by-play guy Mike Breen – Thanksgiving Day is here and the 2017-18 NBA season is already about 20 percent complete. Many teams have struggled to find their groove, but every team is blessed with talented players and … Read more
Now that we’re about a week into the 2017-18 College Basketball season, we’ll begin to focus on some of the lesser-known programs in Division 1 and scouring for upsets courtesy of schools from the smaller conferences and divisions. The first few days of the season did not disappoint, with several … Read more
Photo by Andrew Itaga on Unsplash A couple of Saturday mornings each month, a childhood buddy of mine and I venture out to a nearby park with a basketball court to shoot some middle-aged hoops. We’re both 57 years old, he’s in better shape than I am, but neither of us would be … Read more
Just a few weeks into the 2017-18 NBA season, we’re already hearing talk regarding potential league Most Valuable Player candidates and hearing the “MVP” chants at arenas throughout the league. It’s a bit early for that, but recent trends suggest that the eventual winner will NOT be a traditional low-post … Read more
With the 2017-18 season almost three weeks old, it’s time to offer first impressions on what has already been a strange first 2.5 miles of the 82-game marathon known as the NBA regular-season. Most teams have played between seven and ten games already, and, as usual, there have been some … Read more
Scorers. They rule the NBA. They shoot more. They score more. They get paid more. Their moves are copied on playgrounds. Coaches design game plans around them. They sell more jerseys. Win or lose, they get mentioned in the post-game wrap-ups and media accounts. They take the shots with the … Read more
The homework was done. The chores weren’t, but for the teen-aged sports junkie in the pre-cable television era, priorities tended to come in second to the possibility of finding a live sporting event on a slow night. As I began my search for the rare live sporting event, I had … Read more
The NBA’s Western Conference is widely viewed as the league’s bully, and solidified its reputation by adding four former Eastern Conference All-Stars to its rosters during the summer of 2017. Despite the reputation, however, the West has only won half of the last six NBA championships (thanks largely to Lebron … Read more
Listen – I’m no expert, just a fan trying to sound like one, but I’m allowed to put up an inaccurate 2017-18 NBA Preview just as the experts do. And you can bet I’ll be comparing results at season’s end. Already considered the league’s weak link, the Eastern Conference took … Read more
Fantasy Basketball drafts are now being held in advance of the 2017-18 NBA regular-season, which begins on October 17th. The usual suspects will dominate the early-rounds of the drafts, but many times it’s the back end where competitions are won or lost – where that sleeper or two who everyone … Read more
