Free Ballin’

Reading Chad Ford is loads of fun.  When he isn’t bubbling over with absurd suggestions, he’s getting other people to do it.  It’s too bad I read Ford’s post in TrueHoop yesterday after I wrote about NBA teams’ salary cap incontinence, because I could have just quoted from the article, in which Ford writes: A [...]

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Most Rockets fans I chat with these days take it as a given that the Rockets will make every effort to re-sign Luis Scola this summer.  Now, as much as I like Scola, I don’t see why the Rockets would commit significant money or years to Scola when Carl Landry is going into the last [...]

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I was talking NBA with a friend last week and he asked me what I thought of the Gilbert Arenas/James Crittenden locker room gun fun; said he was surprised he hadn’t seen commentary on my blog.  First, I assure you it was entirely unrelated to the break from blogging I took for a holiday week [...]

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I’m not quite sure what to make of the Mavericks.  Their top five players have a lot of talent, but only Dirk is presently in top form.  He’s a machine and doesn’t seem to have aged a bit since their Finals run in ’06.  But Kidd, Marion, Terry, and Howard have all had better days.  [...]

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