I want to clarify: this upcoming declaration is not rooted in baseless, reactionary compulsions. After a couple of weeks of blistering basketball, I’m prepared to claim that I think the Portland Trailblazers look like the team to beat coming out of the Western Conference. In no other organization out West remains such a collection of [...]
If you missed it last night, Bob Costas sums up the Houston Texans’ improbable run rather beautifully:
Remember this point last summer, when you and I and everyone we know (shoutout to Miranda July) couldn’t help themselves but to piss and moan about the Melodrama and the Decision, wondering when we’d get a chance to ever get to talk about real, American-made professional basketball again? When all actual hoop talk appeared obfuscated [...]
Two summers in a row, while the rest of the NBA world seems to traffic in the kind of high-stakes rumors that make Peter Vescey’s palms sweaty and heart skip a beat, the Houston Rockets made two presumably heady, low-budget moves by signing Trevor Ariza and Brad Miller in consecutive summers. And apparently, for the [...]
As the Oklahoma City Thunder exit the main stage of the playoffs and go on to a summer that I’m sure will be stuffed to the brim with Call of Duty and Capri-Sun, the young outfit from the Midwest likely takes the last shred of indie credibility that this tournament had left. Yes, for the [...]
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