For years, NBA teams could pay NBA players whatever the team wanted to. A 25-year, $25 million deal? Draw it up. Superstar contract leapt over the salary cap? Let it leap, and name the exception to the rule after the superstar. Want to be paid a single dollar more than
Many things I seek to tell my subscribers, things which deliver me joy and spark my further interest, but none of to lead, man, none of them bleed. Spent all Sunday looking for something with red on its horns, something to top the Monday column so the Orlando Magic didn&
No Jalen Duren, no Isaiah Stewart. Rowdy rah-rah halftime speech from Knicks head coach Mike Brown, Stephen Fry at the Knicks game, didn't faze the Pistons, did not faze them, crunched the Knicks, crunched them on Thursday, 126-111. Detroit entered the All-Star break with the NBA's
This column is free, consider supporting! This is the newsletter's ninth NBA season and we don't raise prices. What if the NBA decided long ago, as the NBA hinted long ago, to have its best domestic players take on the finest international performers currently employed by
All but two NBA teams work on Wednesday, only three games take place Thursday night, the NBA doesn't have an actual event until Houston tips off in Charlotte on Feb. 19 and that's bad news, because basketball keeps us from whining about basketball. The week off
It is bogus inspiration to take cues from internet angst, but it's all anyone can do in February, it is gross outside and the pro basketball is trash. Due, almost entirely (can't blame it for snow), to February's trade deadline. Dog days drag their
The first thing I ever bought online was a Conan O'Brien t-shirt, back in 1997, followed by a Memphis Pros shirt a year later. Hopped onto Amazon as soon as I could, CDs and books, eBay for old magazines and LPs. That was the last century, I don&
Want to move NBA media off tanking columns this spring? Treat them to stories debating which exemplar personality NBA teams should send to the lottery drawing in May. The conniving GM or impactful young player or a retired legend or Botox'ed owner. Guessing games regarding grinning representatives, awaiting
Did a lot of driving on Wednesday. Highway stuff, lots of space, few interactions with nearing cars, instrumental music. Had a lot of time to think about important things, wasted it thinking about basketball. Like, the Wizards. The hell is this. Mavericks. What the heck was that. Emptied the tank
They said we were done trading tons of first-round picks for NBA players, but that was because the last guy this happened to was Desmond Bane. No offense, Desmond Bane. Jaren Jackson Jr., however, is worth several first-round picks. Even from a terrible team like the Utah Jazz. However, Memphis
The thing I always posited, was slightly proven and then made so I'd never be forced into defending it, was the idea of Eddy Curry starting at prominent center on a great team. A club winning games and multiple playoff rounds while working Eddy Curry more than half
Jaden Ivey was been the most-likely Chicago Bull candidate for, Detroit decided, too long.