It’s been a productive summer for the NBA. Three of the oldest and most marketable franchises got the top three draft picks, superstars were traded and signed, and one rookie in particular has created a large amount of buzz in a relatively short amount of time in the City of Angels. Lonzo Ball, the 6’6″ […]
Read more "The Lake Show Starring Lonzo Ball"I told you I’d get back to the NBA eventually. I’ll get around to covering the entire off season, but currently, I’d like to talk about one team specifically, the Minnesota Timberwolves. I truly believed they were going to be the breakout team of last season after watching Wiggins and Towns play together in 2015-16, […]
Read more "Jimmy and the Wolves"Imagine you’ve been working for the same company for nine years, and the situation was getting pretty stale to you. The pay is decent, the people are fine, some of them you’ve formed genuine friendships with, but it’s just not working out. You’re ready for something new. No one would ever look twice at you […]
Read more "White Collar Loyalty"Even I expected this series to go six. I also assumed the Cavaliers were going to be as physical in the first two games of this series as they were in Game 3 and Game 5, but since they lost those two games anyway, I suppose that shit doesn’t really matter. The Warriors just operated […]
Read more "NBA: Postmortem"Ideally, the series would’ve ended on Friday. It definitely would’ve made this piece much easier to write; more conclusive. A 73-win team falls apart with a 3-1 lead in the Finals, adds the second-best player in the world, cruises through the regular season and then dominates the playoffs; culminating in a sweep of the playoffs. […]
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