Free Ballin’

Continuing my NBA VIEW ATLANTA HAWKS: You give a team enough lottery picks and it’s difficult to not be a good team.  If you draft  fairly well, your team will be very good, or better.  Or you could be the Hawks.  Ugh.  What a wrecked franchise.  I’ve written about it ad nauseam so I won’t go into [...]

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I’m for the 3s, myself.  This trade is fun and Toronto’s half is amusing.  I won’t get into salaries because…I don’t feel it.  Suffice to say, they have comparably bad contracts: too big, too long.  So what’s worth discussing? Toronto gets Evans: I find this amusing because it’s a deal to help facilitate Andrea Bargnani’s [...]

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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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