Free Ballin’

I just read an annoying article by Bob Young.  Discussing the pros and cons of moving Amare Stoudemire, Young confidently states of the power-forward’s health prospects:  “A surgically repaired knee may work fine right now, but it’s still a surgically repaired knee. It’s never quite the same.”  It always irks me when basketball writers ominously [...]

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I missed this a few weeks back, from Chad Ford’s draft news: • We’ve been trying to get to the bottom of DeJuan Blair‘s situation for the past few weeks. We’ve heard from a number of teams that they’ve had concerns about his knees and it’s only come to light in recent days that those [...]

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ESPN’s rumor mill linked to the story.  The next day David Kahn said it was BS.  I’m hoping it isn’t.  Mark Jackson has been itching to coach for a long time and I’m sure he would be…great, yeah, just dandy, and how nice for a NYC guy…OK, I don’t care.  But I’m hoping and praying [...]

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I’m for the 3s, myself.  This trade is fun and Toronto’s half is amusing.  I won’t get into salaries because…I don’t feel it.  Suffice to say, they have comparably bad contracts: too big, too long.  So what’s worth discussing? Toronto gets Evans: I find this amusing because it’s a deal to help facilitate Andrea Bargnani’s [...]

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People are too concerned about the accuracy of their sports predictions.  Predicting what you feel most likely to occur is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you’re a necessarily disinterested party, like a journalist, or have a stake in the outcome, like degenerate gamblers.  But otherwise, the only benefit of being right is say, [...]

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