Free Ballin’

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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This summer Tim Duncan lost 15 lbs of fat.  Not that the stories put it that way.  They all say he took off 15 lbs.  And that annoys me just a tiny bit.  When players get all diesel in the off-season, reports are quick to say that the player, “gained/put on 15 lbs of muscle.” [...]

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Start typing “Rodney Stuckey” into google and the first suggestion is “rodney stuckey’s girlfriend”.  Type in “Danilo” and the ninth suggestion is “Danilo Galinari’s girlfriend.”  Type his whole name and the first suggestion is yes, “Danilo Galinari’s girlfriend.”  Apparently Andrea Bargnani isn’t as sexy as those other cats.  You have to type his entire name [...]

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I’m not one for pledge drives, but for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, this link is probably the highlight of my site.  Well, for me at least.  Since my savings expired a while ago, Free Ballin’ is financed entirely by the contributions of my readers.  So if you like what you read, [...]

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I almost got into a bar fight once.  This might surprise those who know me, as I’m uncommonly even-tempered, never owned a copy of Roadhouse, and avoid chatting up girls in front of their drunken boyfriends.  But this one time, it was a near thing.
Actually, it wasn’t exactly a bar; it was a pizza joint, [...]

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I think “Fire Isiah!” should be the universal chant when calling for a coach’s head.
I was thinking about this during player introductions for the Clippers/Celtics game, last night.  It almost seemed like the announcer tried to sneak in “Head Coach Mike Dunleavy”, quickly and quietly, so no one would notice.  But they did, Clippers fans, [...]

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This is long as hell, and I don’t feel like editing it; transcribing is enough to put me to sleep, anyway.  So yeah, typos and whatever.  Instead, I’m going to back through and just putting asterisks in between sections, for your convenience.  How’s that?
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Nobody wants to take the 1:25 AM Greyhound from Orlando to Michigan. [...]

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