Reunited And It Feels So…Bleh – With the Rockets’ infuriating frustrating heartbreaking inevitable overtime loss to the Lakers last night, Houston will face OKC in the first round, and L.A. will face the Spurs. James Harden will face his old team in the soap opera that every sports writer has been hoping all year, and one [...]
Started From The Bottom – If you thought at the beginning of the season that James Harden would be in the top-five of the MVP discussion along with LeBron, Durant, Chris Paul and Carmelo, then you were a starry-eyed homer. If you think it now, then you’re Zach Lowe over at Grantland: The Rockets likewise [...]
Defensive prowess, especially exclusively defensive talent, is as misrepresented as anything in the minds of basketball fans. Freakish, compelling defenders often find themselves relegated to “workman” status, not able to have their considerable abilities recognized as easily as the juicy offensive numbers that add up to giant salaries for their offensive counterparts; that’s why performances [...]
After a night of basketball played so badly that the Charlotte Bobcats were the best shooting team of the night with an anemic 40.2% clip, there is always time for a philosophical reminder that this game, even when played quite miserably and half-heartedly, always has some hilarious tricks up its sleeve, like the fantastic failure [...]
UPDATE 1/18/11 12:14 PM: Links have been added after the jump. As a person with both a job and a DVR full of professional sports games, I am constantly begging to have my soul crushed by some student (I sort of teach) flippantly offering anything he or she knows to create a little conversation, inadvertently [...]
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