As soon as the Lakers were swept away by the Dallas Mavericks Sunday afternoon, a lot of folks in the sports media (especially Michael Wilbon and Mike Tirico) waxed poetic over how Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson is the greatest coach… Read More ›
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2011 NBA Playoff Musings: Second Round Edition
The winner of the Miami Heat-Boston Celtics series will win it all. This series of heavyweights is “must see TV” for the following reasons. It features the two best teams in the Eastern Conference (no offense to the Chicago Bulls)…. Read More ›
2011 NBA Playoff Preview
Now the important part of the NBA season is here: the postseason. While this may shape out as being the best post-seasons in recent memory, this might be the last time we will see the NBA for a while with… Read More ›
Rodman Deserves to Be in Hall of Fame
Dennis Rodman entered the Basketball Hall of Fame Monday at the Final Four in Houston. Bravo. At only 6’6″, Rodman was the NBA’s most ferocious rebounder and defender from the late ’80s thru the ’90s. He was a two-time defensive… Read More ›
The Heat Will Get it Right – Next Year
To all the doom-and-gloom NBA experts, the Miami Heat will figure its way out of this funk and beat the elite teams in the NBA. It will happen next year. I think it was asking too much for Miami to… Read More ›