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.
The Clippers won 17 of 22, Cavs cranked out victories in 15 of 22 contests. They play each other on Wednesday, in Los Angeles. Hey. Who wants to screw up, both teams. James Harden for Darius Garland. Sounds like a bad-but-legal trade Kelly Dwyer would make up (yearly subscription is
To make good for his new team, Giannis Antetokounmpo does not need to rush back from his most recent debilitating calf strain and risk a greater injury we don't want to mention. The Bucks, the franchise Giannis Antetokounmpo seeks rewarding while attempting to sustain his well-earned Great Dude-status
ICYMI: Warriors fumble, whiff, clang (fake Jonathan Kuminga and Chris Bosh trades), Philly pulling it off (Embiid is not C-Webb), Things I Need Eric Collins For (Charlotte and LaMelo Ball and the NBA's most excitable announcer). The ongoing irrelevance of the Chicago Bulls is to the benefit of