Free Ballin’

The more I think about it, I don’t think Toronto’s that badly off. I like this Turk trade for them a lot. And it’s not like they’re in a good position now, and they’re not at the great position NJ is in, scrap it with a franchise guy on the roster and start over, but [...]

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If LeBron had just a normal press conference and said “Cleveland is my home; but it’s time for me to leave home,” I don’t think they would be burning his effigy all over Ohio.

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All this talk through the years that LeBron should develop a low-post game is utter hogwash.  And the idea that he needs a secondary scorer in the post is nonsense as well. The singular common trait of championship teams is high volume scoring at the rim.  Really, that’s it; that’s the only thread.  And among [...]

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That’s assuming continuity of current health conditions.  It’s a fun personnel match-up, with each team holding a huge match-up advantage on the other team: 1. For Celtics – Rondo will eat Fisher alive on both ends of the floor 2. For Lakers – Allen can’t guard Artest, so Pierce has to do it., leaving Kobe [...]

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I just wrote an email that I’m sending to Henry Abbott and Bill Simmons.  In the email, I provide them (and now you) with the definitive solution to the sucky NBA officiating.  I’m posting it here in epistolary form, not because I’m too lazy to re-format; it’s just how I roll. ************* SOLUTION TO NBA [...]

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Henry Abbott’s assessment of David Stern’s comments is clear and thoughtful.  Abbott and I also have the same problem with David Stern’s statements: Stern says the league is great shape in all respects and yet somehow the teams will lose around $400 million this year.  One comment Abbott made caught my attention: “What’s a fair [...]

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Stern spent the first few minutes of the press conference talking about how well the league had been doing – which he always does – especially internationally – which he always always always does.  The whole world is embracing the NBA, yadda yadda.  He even said that the Association’s revenue hadn’t been hit as hard [...]

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If Amar’e Stoudemire goes to Cleveland, it would seemingly increase the chances that LeBron will stay in Cleveland.  And who wants that?  I mean, I know a guy from Columbus Ohio, but other than him, who wants that?  If Amar’e sticks in Phoenix, he’ll be pissed, LeBron will be pissed, Wade will be pissed, and [...]

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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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