The NBA’s biggest problem is also one of its greatest strengths – it’s stars. Late NBA commissioner David Stern made the decision to market the league around its best players in the 1980s. Back then, the NBA had Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, and others to feature. The league went […]
The Milwaukee Bucks feel so passionately about the crimes visited upon blacks and the constant fear in their lives that they have boycotted this afternoon’s Game Five in the playoff series against the Orlando Magic. Never before in the history of professional sports has a team passed on the opportunity to compete in order to protest […]
The Indiana Pacers decision to fire Nate McMillan is shocking. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but it is. When news of the firing spread at Colts practice today after a tweet from Scott Agness, the first response was disbelief. Then, it was agreed this was a very un-Pacers thing to do. This is a franchise that has never […]
More than two hours of our lives gone, and for what? The Pacers took an L today in the Bubble as the Heat gave the Pacers a shovel, watched them dig the hole, and then buried them in it. Have to be mad at somebody, right? Social media reflects the frustration felt by Pacers fans. […]
The final minute of a basketball game is where high drama should build to a crescendo as tall men and women exhaust themselves in the fight to win. Instead, because of timeouts and replay reviews, the final minute can turn into a death march taking as many as 15 minutes. I was reminded of this last […]
