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 [...]

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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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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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