Ben Simmons returning to Philly today is going to be a shitshow of epic proportions. I have trouble seeing this go well for him. I know he's had like 3 straight good games for the first time in years. But let's just say he's shown...
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For tonight's open thread, I'm going to focus on players like Dillon Brooks. A lot of people hate Dillon Brooks. That's because he is a mean dude on the court..
No reason for a Tuesday open thread since the league didn't schedule any games so everyone could vote. Good for the NBA. So let's do it today and let's talk.
I wanted to talk about something other than the Nets tonight for our Tuesday NBA open thread, but then they went and fired Steve Nash. What a mess. I don't really know why Nash got this job in the first place--he had zero coaching experience...
We did an open thread for NBA opening night and we might as well do this every Tuesday night, which after all is the full TNT studio night with Shaq/Barkley/Smith/Johnson,.
By request, we shall have an NBA open thread. A few quick thoughts on the season: First, watching the Nets implode should provide hilarity. How do you have three stars.
This is the grave of Wayman Tisdale. Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964, Tisdale grew up in the church in Tulsa. His father was a well-known pastor up there. His family also played a lot of basketball. He was kind of whatever about it...
This is the unmarked grave of Reggie Lewis. Born in 1965 in Baltimore, Lewis was a star basketball player by the time he was a child. He attended Dunbar High.
This Vox piece on the impact of the NBA players strike is good. Basically, a lot of actions in the recent strike wave have been about community unionism--striking for the.
The NBA is restarting today after the players' brief strike in support of Jacob Blake. On the Twitter hellscape, there's plenty of lefties who are unhappy about this, saying that the players won nothing and should continue to not play. I think this is fundamentally...
I was happy to be interviewed for this Marketplace story on the athletes strike last night in protest of police brutality. The quote they used--that NBA billionaire owners could theoretically.
I want to be clear here, since this is massively misreported. What NBA players and now even MLB (!!!!) players are doing today is engaging in a wildcat strike against.