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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Bill Simmons posted a great email exchange he had with Malcolm Gladwell, in which they discuss the NBA’s deeply flawed (league-damaging) draft.  Both make good (though imperfect) suggestions for how to improve it—I’ll write about how to fix NBA draft, in the near future—but at one point, Simmons, noting how the draft could be used [...]

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I’ll be heading to Toronto in a few weeks, and I was really hoping to see Jermaine O’Neal play.  I’m a huge fan of his, and I wanted to see what he had, at this point.  I’ve read all season about how disappointing he has been, but his numbers indicate more of a mixed bag.  [...]

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