Worry after Christmas – what will I wear on Boxing Day?!? – not after. Worry the NFL is taking over the NBA's Christmas turf? Nah. You can call it "Christmas turf," it reminds of the green outdoor porch mat at your Aunt's house that she only
Cleveland doles out the highest payroll in the NBA and it isn't particularly close. Only six teams will pay over $200 million this season, three of them over $210 million (New York, Golden State). Only one team over $220 million, and it is the only team over $230
Earlier this year I bought myself a $499 electric guitar from a pawn shop via layaway, an utterly pointless acquisition, a gift to myself. Earlier this month I swapped out my shaving blade for a new one. I didn't buy a new one, this is a replacement razor
A few years ago I traded my dream-since-a-kid amplifier – a Vox AC30 – for a smaller amplifier and crucial upgrades on my Gibson guitar. It was a happy swap, my dream amp was made redundant by the smaller Vox I'd already owned for a over a
We did good. LAKERS San Antonio's twirling dismantling of the Lakers on Thursday night was further proof of Los Angeles' age, even its 20somethings (Ayton, Luka, Reaves) play much older. Throw a single spin move at gramps and he's had it. One would presume the
The NBA wants to introduce December's fake tournament as a restart, a way for the eliminated clubs to rest and reset ahead of a reliably clear set of expectations. The idea scans, it is hard to look at the current NBA standings and not picture a similar set
Everyone's streaming list wrapped up this week and, yeah, mine was Steely Dan again. I try not to listen to Steely Dan on random, or in streaming format. I don't want to burn myself out, and also I have a much-better sounding miniplayer filled with
Not your fault, Milwaukee. Fans, media, superstar, secondary stars, general manager, ownership group. Not to blame. Ya had some slips. Kyle Kuzma, OK, woof. Coupla blown draft picks, I get it, but, still, not your fault. I will not write columns in 30 years detailing the Milwaukee Bucks biff of
L.A., infamously, cannot bottom out. The Clippers, too, the team owes its unprotected 2026 first-round pick to Oklahoma City, L.A. cannot profit from its harrowing 2025-26 descent. A Billy King-sized abyss surrounding a miserable so-far season, well on pace for maybe 20 wins. Anyone
Cannot remember the first time I saw Chris Paul photoshopped into a Los Angeles Lakers uniform. But I can remember the most recent sighting, the night Chris Paul's retirement announcement spread, spotting two separate instances on social media. Lakers fans never got over Chris Paul's Dec.
We did the East, but now we do the good teams: NOT SURPRISED At the bodacious NBA ball so far, performed in spite of the Thunder on the horizon. Oh, they say you can't see thunder, but if that ain't thunder, then what is it I&
Nobody's shocked that Detroit won 14 of 16 to start the season. Surprised, surely, but not put off by the Piston ascent. This team was good last season, won some close games in the regular season before losing some closer ones in the playoffs. But everyone improved, and