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...
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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.
I mean, you want to say it's the Trump administration, right? Carl Higbie has interviewed for the position of White House press secretary, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the matter. “Well, I can say that I’ve offered my services,” Higbie confirms for...
The affable and loudly dressed sideline reporter for TNT's NBA coverage has died after a long battle with cancer.
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.