Seriously, when you are the second pick of the 2008 NBA Draft, and one of the best rookie prospects to come out of college since 2007, you shouldn’t be leaving your first practice after an elbow to the chest. That’s par for the course, Michael Beasley. And the fact that Shaquille O’Neal or Alonzo Mourning [...]
USA Basketball sent a powerful message in the announcement of its 12-man roster for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Not a message of “we’re the biggest, fastest and strongest in the world, but we will play the smartest basketball possible.” With the youngest players possible. When Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd are the senior members [...]
When it comes to NBA Draft analysis, a constant presence for the last several years has been ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. Unfortunately, many of his predictions surrounding the NBA’s annual talent auction are often wrong. And not wrong like he predicted someone to win Rookie of the Year and they came in second or got [...]
If anything, I could say that his gear was fly. But oh well, forget it, now onto the Chi… Technorati Tags: NBA
Interesting column in the Star-Tribune today, with ruminations on what could have been had the Minnesota Timberwolves kept Ray Allen with the fifth pick in the 1996 NBA Draft instead of trading for Stephon Marbury. It’s possible that an Allen-Garnett combo would have been as explosive as the Great Marbury-Garnett experiment. Neither of the three [...]
The refs gave the people exactly what they wanted in the 2008 NBA Finals, huh? Technorati Tags: NBA
The Boston Celtics are your 2008 NBA Champions. Go crazy, Bostonians. But don’t go THIS crazy. Don’t be a former prosecutor acquitted of not one, not two, but three rape charges that gets arrested in the post game celebration. Don’t have your arrest include charges of disturbing the peace, assault on a police officer, and [...]
Thus sayeth Chris Mottram. Steve Buckhantz, by law, would have to agree. Technorati Tags: NBA
It wasn’t even close. Sure I called it, but the Boston Celtics exceeded any stretch of the imagination on how to throttle an opponent in a close out game. The swag was phenomenal. The celebration was legendary. Maybe next year, maybe Andrew Bynum, maybe Kobe Bryant hangs around. But for right now, which is all [...]
And now, your afternoon sports revelations. 5. Greivis Vasquez has ankle surgery – The Terp guard that was as consistent as the Baltimore rail system had surgery today, sidelining him for the summer. He is expected to resume normal activities – which include macking your girl, and poor three pointer attempts, this fall. 4. So [...]
