Category Archives: essays

Kyle Lowry and Possibility

The NBA season is still young, barely walking, but like a toddler’s first check-up, some conclusions can already be drawn. The Miami Heat look like the rocket-fueled, jet pack wearing demolition robots we all thought they would be last season. The Mavs look like the reincarnation of the 2007 Heat. Ricky Rubio looks like he [...]

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Trading Kevin Martin Never Made More Sense

A single game has been played for one of the league’s most subjective teams, and already the Houston Rockets have a giant question mark surrounding their most prolific source of production. What do we have with Kevin Martin right now? A shooter in a typical shooter’s funk? An overreaction to a microscopic sample size? An underrated ego [...]

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On the Samuel Dalembert signing

As is well known by now, the Houston Rockets signed center Samuel Dalembert yesterday, solidifying their frontcourt rotation. It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that I don’t like the acquisition.

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Analyzing Trade Bait’s Psyche

“y do some players take it so personal when they get traded. SMDH.”  This critical judgment originated in a mind, traveled through a pair of typing fingertips, and was released into the not-especially-exclusive world of Reggie Evans’ Twitter page roughly six hours after the offseason’s second Chris Paul to Los Angeles deal was shot dead by David [...]

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Who is Pau Gasol?

This trade has since been killed by the NBA. – Ed. As I write this, a three-team deal that would make Chris Paul a Laker, Pau Gasol a Rocket, and Kevin Martin, Lamar Odom, and Luis Scola all Hornets is reportedly being finalized. More details are available to publish, but right now they aren’t important. What [...]

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