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Danilo’s Girlfriend, and Rodney’s too.

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Start typing “Rodney Stuckey” into google and the first suggestion is “rodney stuckey’s girlfriend”.  Type in “Danilo” and the ninth suggestion is “Danilo Galinari’s girlfriend.”  Type his whole name and the first suggestion is yes, “Danilo Galinari’s girlfriend.”  Apparently Andrea Bargnani isn’t as sexy as those other cats.  You have to type his entire name [...]

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NBA VIEW – New York Knicks

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

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 [...]

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NBA VIEW: Eastern Conference, Central Division

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Indiana: The Pacers chased me all over America last year.  It seemed that everywhere I went, they were the visiting team.  So I got to see them a lot.  Mostly, I learned that if you only looked at Danny Granger for all 48 minutes of game play, even especially when he’s on the bench, the [...]

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Rodney Stuckey Has a Very Large Head

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

I’m not talking Eric Stoltz in Mask but Stuckey’s head is really quite big, big enough that they should put an asterisk next to his listed height. I noticed this while watching Detroit beat the Spurs, last night, and it made me think of the useful height discussion Jerry Krause unintentionally began, ten years back, [...]

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Is AI the Answer in Motown?

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

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 of, except…well, Allen [...]

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