I cannot believe I am witnessing a championship-caliber franchise self destruct before my eyes. After failing to land Chris Paul in a trade with the New Orleans Hornets in which commissioner David Stern rejected (thanks to some bullying by Cleveland… Read More ›
Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. He and other small market NBA owners bitched and complained to Commissioner David Stern over a three-team trade that would have sent Chris Paul to… Read More ›
Well whaddaya know, there will be an NBA season after all. The NBA owners and its players association came to a tentative collective bargaining agreement Saturday morning in an attempt to save the 2011-2012 season. While it is not official… Read More ›
The NBA Players Association reject the latest proposal from the owners, and is moving towards decertification. All I have is one thing to say to the NBA: it’s been real. If the NBA thought the fan backlash to the 1999… Read More ›
I was going back and forth in deciding whether to offer an opinion on Bryant Gumbel calling NBA Commissioner David Stern a “plantation overseer” on HBO’s “Real Sports”. By the way, Gumbel took things a step further in referring to… Read More ›
It’s official: the NBA will lose some regular season games to the lockout. How it’s gotten to this point is multi-prong, which can be summarized in two categories: the owners and the players. Owners The owners want several concessions from… Read More ›