Free Ballin’

Quentin Richardson traded for the fourth time this summer?  Hilarious.  At some point you have to imagine that GMs are just inquiring about Richardson for sh_ts and giggles.  I mean, really, can Mark Blount help a team?  Any team?  No, no he can’t.  He wouldn’t have started for Hickory High. Who knows, maybe Miami’s interest [...]

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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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Shaq beat ‘em up proper, in Phoenix, last night, t0 my delight.  At first, I wasn’t quite sure why his 45-point performance pleased me so; I had never been a huge Shaq fan, growing up–and I mean that.  Some people say “not a huge fan” to indicate that they don’t like something or someone.  I [...]

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As this project has progressed, I’ve become a much more efficient traveler, able to arrange for housing without a great deal of difficulty, and getting from A to B at least a little faster than I did at the beginning of my trip.  However, that learning curve left me a little behind my originally proposed [...]

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