1995: Michael Jordan in Atlanta

There is no free agency

Free agency begins Monday and nobody will go anywhere because the union and the NBA decided to encourage players via pay raise to re-sign with their own teams. Worse, much worse, each side decided to smooth out the salary cap increase earned via the new streaming rights deal. Boring. Super,

The Boomer ballplayer

When I loved baseball, really really loved baseball, it felt as if baseball fans my parents' age were more in love with the baseball players their parents liked than the baseball players their own age. Maybe it is the same trap, everyone reflecting fondly upon things from when they

Bulls send Lonzo Ball to Cleveland

Cleveland spiced its title approach a little on Saturday, adding Lonzo Ball to the spread. Ball is 28 in October and worked but 70 games over the last four NBA seasons, undergoing a full meniscus transplant on his left knee, the first comeback of its kind in NBA history. His

2025 NBA draft, mostly over

Is this a little late, maybe early? Sure, but you shoulda seen my front lawn. Had to mow it. And if I want to keep the patrolling cops off my ass about the cats running outside, I gotta keep a tidy front lawn. Back lawn? I could lose the 1986