I finished Winning Time last night and even though I hate the Lakers, I thought this was a quite entertaining show. It does a great job of getting at the culture of the team around that time. And yeah
I spent the last couple of nights watching Hoop Dreams for the first time in 25 years. It remains an absolutely astounding film, almost certainly the best sports documentary of all time and with an ar
Tough day for my childhood. Cliff Robinson, the sixth man on those great Blazers teams of the early 90s, died. He was only 53 and moreover is the third big man off those teams to die (and fourth overa
This is the grave of Walt Bellamy. Born in 1939 in New Bern, North Carolina, Bellmay was a star basketball player from the time he was a child and went to Indiana University in 1958 to play. The reaso
We need a post about something other than politics. Larry Bird turned 60 this week. The NBA social media people created this collection of his greatest plays with commentary about him. Watching it rea
San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins has uncovered the true Jewish War on Christmas–David Stern saving us all from the hell of spending time with our families by making us watc
Now this is just embarrassing: Something very ugly seems to have gone down during an exhibition basketball game between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Chinese professional team Baiyi. The Washington Pos
Assume you’re a coach of a basketball team that features a great offensive player who is awful on defense — an undersized point guard who is a brilliant play maker but whose relative lack