Free Ballin’

It doesn’t have to be a great game to get my attention.  Last night’s Trailblazers/Heat matchup was competitive, but nothing special.  Watching Greg Oden and Michael Beasley go at each other, on the other hand, was sensational.
Amid a bevy if impressive sequences, the most significant play of the game to me (in a big picture [...]

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Most NBA head coaches are hired to be fired.  You think PJ Carlesimo bought a house in Oklahoma City?  Did anyone outside Carlesimo’s immediate family think, “Oh yeah, I can totally see him coaching the Thunder into the second round of the playoffs.”  How about Paul Westphal?  Flip Saunders?  Jim O’Brien?  Scott Skiles?  Do you [...]

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Continuing my NBA VIEW
Philadelphia 76ers:
Aw hell, I liked the Elton Brand signing.  Tells you what I know.  Well, really, it tells you what I knew.  Prime Brand would be a very solid match for this team.  I just wasn’t up on the latest dope on him—i.e. that I hadn’t paid attention to the Clippers for [...]

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Continuing from my NBA VIEW introduction.
New York Knicks
The biggest joke of this NBA season is how many teams are desperately trying to clear salary cap space for this all-time great free agent class, when this is what they should be doing every year.  Teams should either be contending for a championship, growing into a [...]

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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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Well, I guess now we’ll see how good Rodney Stuckey is.
I like trades like this, big pieces being shifted around by two teams, Detroit and Denver, that needed a change. Or maybe not. Denver desperately needed a change, and this trade is terrific for them in every way I can think [...]

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