Free Ballin’

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 amount [...]

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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 source [...]

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Quentin Richardson traded for the fourth time this summer?  Hilarious.  At some point you have to imagine that GMs are just inquiring about Richardson for sh_ts and giggles.  I mean, really, can Mark Blount help a team?  Any team?  No, no he can’t.  He wouldn’t have started for Hickory High.
Who knows, maybe Miami’s interest is [...]

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NJ and Milwaukee mixin’ it up! This is a fun deal, because there are significant talent and financial elements involved, and both teams are radically changed. That’s fun, no?
NJ Gets: a huge roundhouse to the chin in losing Richard Jefferson; huge cap-relief for the all-important free-agent class of 2010; two interesting players with [...]

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