Free Ballin’

I’m sitting in the Miami Beach Regional Public Library, in a private study room, catching my breath and taking some time to put some words down. I don’t have as much time here as I’d like, because it’s Dec. 31st and the library closes at 5PM; normally it closes at 9PM. Did I mention it’s [...]

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I caught a ride from New Orleans to Houston with a new couchsurfer who lived in Baton Rouge, was in New Orleans for the weekend, and was heading to northern Houston to see his niece. We left Sunday evening after a satisfying Couchsurfing potluck–I brought a great…well, OK, I stood next to someone who brought [...]

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For a while I couldn’t quite figure out why Dumars made the AI/Billups trade. It isn’t exactly that I didn’t like the trade for Detroit; I wasn’t sure, because I just couldn’t quite figure it out. It’s just…weird, it’s a weird deal. If I were Detroit, Billups and Prince are the two players who I [...]

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The Hornets weren’t quite as responsive to my press credentials/tickets inquiries as Dallas and San Antonio were so…well, that’s probably not fair. I sent an email to one of their PR staff on 11/25 and received an understandable “Who the hell are you?” the next day.  I intended to respond that day, when I thought [...]

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…because I have an Asus eee PC. Seriously, every time I break out the laptop around women it’s like I have a puppy. “Ooooh, isn’t it cute.” They want to hold it, pet it, scratch its keyboard. I never thought owning a tiny laptop would be a conversation starter with women, but that’s just what [...]

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Does the headline: Wizards Send Daniels to Hornets really merit ESPN’s BREAKING NEWS ALERT? When there’s a three-team trade with Daniels, a 33 year-old who plays 22 minutes a game, as the headliner, I think a more appropriate headline would be, Three Teams Trade Three Players Who Play 38 Minutes-Per-Game, Combined. Still, there are some [...]

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Marc Stein writes that the Suns are having problems.  Screw the Suns, they’re the most two-faced organization in the NBA and they never get called on it.  I wrote about this last year, saying that Knicks fans were better of than Suns fans.  Knicks were incompetent, not unethical.  The Suns spit on their fans by [...]

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I’m not talking Eric Stoltz in Mask but Stuckey’s head is really quite big, big enough that they should put an asterisk next to his listed height. I noticed this while watching Detroit beat the Spurs, last night, and it made me think of the useful height discussion Jerry Krause unintentionally began, ten years back, [...]

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I’m new to the blogging thing.  Free Ballin’ is a blog and it’s the book I’m writing at the conclusion of the NBA season.  And that’s more my style, long form.  At least, I’ve mostly written long-form, before.  My tendency is to write and write and write and I don’t really concern myself with an [...]

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