Jimmy and the Wolves

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, […]

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White Collar Loyalty

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 […]

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NBA: Postmortem

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 […]

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2017 NBA Finals, Game 5

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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