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No Favorite in the East
With round one of the playoffs in the rear view mirror the NBA’s best eight teams now battle it out for the conference final spots. But is there really a favorite in the league to already be pencilled...
View ArticleChicago Bulls are Testing My Faith
I watched the entire fourth quarter of the most recent Bulls-Cavs game feeling as if I had just finished my 12th cup of coffee. My foot tapped rapidly. Sweat pooled above my brow and upper lip. My...
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More Than A Friday: Cavs, Cups, Coyotes, Keely and Cavuto
There’s so much going on this week, I feared I wouldn’t be able to drop a subtle #MACtion reference into this week’s column1Let’s just say the table is being set nicely for yet another Bowling...
View ArticleQuestioning Fanhood
Sometimes, I wonder if I am, indeed, more than a fan. After all, I moved away from the city where all most of my teams reside. The more I do this stuff, the pods, the writing, the live radio show, I...
View ArticleNBA Sportsmanship: Gone Forever?
I can’t pinpoint the moment it happened, in much the same way I can’t pinpoint the moment green summer leaves turn autumn brown. But happen it has. And long ago. I’m guessing it began to loosen its...
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Appreciating Kobe
Why do we always find it necessary to compare great players to one another instead of appreciating them for their greatness alone? In his book, “The Four Loves”, C.S. Lewis said this: “The human mind...
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Plays Well with Others, an NBA Necessity
Three years ago my grade school alma mater reached out to me regarding coaching basketball. I was intrigued. I had coached during high school and loved it. I decided to jump in and give it a shot. To...
View ArticleThe NBA’s Usual Suspects
The sun coming up and going down, the moon taking the sun’s place, getting old, having a crush, embarrassing yourself in school, standing in line, the weatherman being wrong, the weatherman being...
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Scottie Pippen: The Most Underrated Player of All Time
When one beauty occupies the same proximity as something deemed more beautiful, it tends to go unnoticed and unappreciated. 1Or if it does receive notice, it is primarily because it is in the same...
View ArticleBulls Take Game 1 Over Shorthanded Cavs
The Bulls needed this one. With J.R. Smith out for the first two games of the series, it was imperative that Chicago did not leave Cleveland trailing 0-2. Game one was their best chance to secure a W...
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