8 men dribble and shoot around with 2 basketballs on the near end of a health club basketball court.  Every few seconds, one of the men looks nervously toward the lobby, then bounces the ball and shoots.  Most of the warm up shots go in.  One of the men jogs back and forth and stretches [...]

It has been a relatively inactive off-season in the NBA since we saw David Stern hand yet another championship trophy to Phil Jackson. Most team’s primary objection this off-season appeared to be shedding payroll. Whether it was due to the financial losses many teams suffered with the economic challenges in the U.S. or due to [...]

Finally, now we don’t have to watch those puppets of Kobe and LeBron, we get to watch the real thing! Wait….what?!……the Cavs didn’t make it?!?! What do you mean?! This was supposed to be THE ultimate match-up!! Like Bird-Magic!! Or Russell-Chamberlain!! There were PUPPETS for crying out loud!!!! Well, while LeBron and the Cavaliers are [...]

Football is to Thanksgiving as basketball is to Christmas. And even though the pigskin tradition on Turkey Day gets more attention, the Christmas day lineup from the NBA this season promises much better entertainment than watching woeful Detroit give up against Tennessee and Seattle forget to show up against Big D. I won’t make a [...]

The NBA finds itself at a crossroads heading into this upcoming season. How will all the decidedly unwanted “tricks” play out with the average fan? It does not appear positive that the most talked about story lines leading up to this season were the Knicks and Isiah Thomas sexual harassment trial; a disgruntled superstar, Kobe [...]