Word is that Stephon Marbury, last seen in Knicks blue and orange and/or flying about in his new personal jet, will become a Boston Celtic. If he and NY can negotiate an amicable settlement agreement. That’s a big IF. That breakup is making Brad and Jennifer’s look like a walk in the park.
Which begs the [...]
Category Archives: NBA
Starbury in Green????
January 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm
Playing For Pay
December 18, 2008 – 10:07 am
The college hoops-addicted belief system around here prevents most folks from acknowledging that pro basketball, even during the regular season, even during December, can be compelling. If you didn’t see the Celtics/ Hawks game Wednesday night, you missed a good one. Intense play at both ends. Back and forth in the fourth.
It wasn’t like that [...]
Oops, Make That List A Half Dozen
December 15, 2008 – 4:07 pm
Well, talk about a day late and a dollar short. When I perused the NBA scores this Monday morning and saw that the Kings lost again, I meant to write the pretty boy Reggie Theus was surely on that Dead Man Walking list. I walk away from my computer for a couple hours, come home [...]
Now There are 5 . . . And Counting
December 14, 2008 – 12:23 pm
Maurice Cheeks was fired Saturday as coach of the Philly 76′ers. The season is only 25% over, and he joins four others who have been deep sixed. P.J. Carlesimo at Okie City, Eddie Jordan in D.C., Sam Mitchell of the Raptors and Randy Wittman in Minnesoooooota.
What is happening in the world of sports that this [...]
Anticipation in Absurdium
November 26, 2008 – 8:46 am
Okay, it’s November 26, 2008. After the season, LeBron James becomes a free agent, free from the Cleveland Cavs, and thus will be coveted by the Lakers, Nets and Knicks.
Uh, but that’s not after this season.
Oh yeah, it’s after next season. As in 2010.
Which means he has about 200 games left to play in Cleveland [...]
Who Cares?
November 18, 2008 – 10:14 am
Mark Cuban took a break from insider trading of internet stocks to imply that he’d really like to have Knick-in-exile Stephon Marbury on his floundering Dallas Mavs.
Yawn!
One guy’s opinion is that if he wants a real maverick, who might actually help his team, recruit that governor from up in Alaska. A hoopster at heart, she’d [...]
Oden Injured — It won’t be the Last Time
October 29, 2008 – 2:47 pm
Greg Oden was injured in his first game as a Portland Trailblazer. As I wrote last week, informed sources advise that his physical makeup and development as a teenager make him quite injury prone.
I will reiterate that a number of in-the-know NBA observers feel he’ll never be a factor of any consequence in the league, [...]
Oden the Overrated
October 23, 2008 – 6:02 pm
My NBA aficionado sources confirm what I’ve believed since I first saw Greg Oden play. Which is that he will never live up to his billing as the #1 draft choice. When I saw Oden play in person in the NCAA tourney year before last, he appeared slow and somewhat dispassionate.
One astute observer says Oden [...]