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It's almost here. You can feel the excitement in NBA arenas throughout the USA and Canada. Teams have been preparing for this all season long with some ramping up their efforts recently to best prepare for the upcoming event. Fans are pumped, NBA executives are planning and players are preparing. What is it that has the NBA community so charged up? If you guessed playoffs, you would ...

Does it get any better for a sports fan?   Baseball is about ready to start its season, we are winding down March Madness, the Masters is around the corner—with Tiger, and World Cup fever is starting to boil.  Add the coming NBA Playoffs and you have a sports-lovers paradise. The NBA season is long, with games seemingly mattering more at the beginning and end of the season.  The middle of the ...

Much like the horse that made a mad rush out of the last turn to take a surprising victory away from the favorite, Stephen Curry has edged Tyreke Evans by a nose to become this year's ROY. Case closed.  End of story. The ROY award has been prematurely handed out twice already this season.  First it was Brandon Jennings who was touted as the top rookie seven games ...

Basketball was created in America by a (naturalized) American. For decades it was played best by Americans. America dominated the game internationally. Basketball was always red, white and blue, as American as apple pie. Then, the 1988 Olympics gold medal basketball game changed everything. America, gasp, wasn't in it! The basketball gold medal was seen as America's birthright. We don't do bronze! Order was quickly restored thanks to the ...

My mom never said it to me personally but I still remember growing up aware of the old adage that "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."  Maybe that will help explain my week or so Clipper silent treatment.  It's not for lack of wanting to write about the Clips, but another Blake Griffin and/or LeBron James article seems odd now.  Sort of ...

Ah, the life of an NBA coach. Travel in style, stay in upscale hotels, wear the finest clothes. Sure, you have to babysit immature millionaires, but you get four months off a year to do it! If your team stinks you get even more time off. Of course, if your team isn't any good the comfy chair you sit on court-side starts to heat up. ...

Somewhere Bill Simmons, ESPN columnist who has made his dislike for Dunleavy evident in several articles, is smiling. The final link between Mike Dunleavy and the Clippers was officially severed today.  Word apparently arrived via email and was shared with viewers of the Clipper game against the Orlando Magic by Clipper announcers Ralph Lawler and Mike Smith.  No press conference, no semblance of order, not even a thank you ...

The 2009 NBA Draft was held on June 25, 2009 in the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden New York City, New York. The 2009 NBA Draft do-over was held on March 6th, 2010 in the Salviati man-cave in Foothill Ranch, California. The rules of the draft do-over were simple. Each team picked a player in the spot they were assigned. No trades. Each team ...

Who needs American Idol when the first and still best reality TV show marches on in the form of the NBA! The Association is full of drama, suspence, intrique and more and thats just this past week alone. What has gotten into the Jazz? Are the Celtics done? Skateboarding and straw chewing are not crimes, are they? All that and a little more awaits if ...

I really want to see the Harlem Globetrotters live. I grew up watching the 'Trotters on Saturday morning TV. Sometimes, they would be special guest stars on Fat Albert! Good times. Even as a kid, I knew the games were fixed. The 'Trotters were all about entertainment, and that was okay by me. I watched in awe as Curly would lay on his side and dribble the ball while ...