by Kent Sterling Did Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel suffer a massive head injury while I wasn’t looking? Did he get dumb all of a sudden? Were his biorhythms in perfect sync for the first three years as the Pacers coach, and then spin totally out of kilter? Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird […]
by Kent Sterling The opportunity to do the right thing and the most practical thing simultaneously doesn’t come along very often for a guy in charge, but it happened yesterday for NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is just that big a tool, and Silver has him to thank for grooving […]
by Kent Sterling This is the first time we have seen new NBA commissioner Adam Silver set the tone for the league he oversees. He’s gone on his little goodwill tour of arenas and made many media appearances, but faced no adversity. Saturday, potentially radioactive adversity in the form of racially offensive and absurd comments […]
by Kent Sterling I’m alone on a skinny limb. No one I know of not drawing checks from Pacers Sports & Entertainment believes the Indiana Pacers have any chance to take the last two games to win the opening round series against the Atlanta Hawks in seven. Even people with the Pacers are privately rejecting […]
by Kent Sterling People are outraged – players, coaches, fans, and virtually anyone associated with the NBA wants Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling (no relation; his given game is Donald Tokowsky) ousted from their membership. Making the idiotic statements about African Americans represented on the recording obtained and disseminated by TMZ have made Sterling […]
by Kent Sterling Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘schizophrenia’ in 1911. The first half play of the Indiana Pacers re-defined in the first half of their 107-97 loss tonight to the Atlanta Hawks. After leading through most of the first quarter and finishing with a 21-20 lead, the Pacers went on a vacation […]
by Kent Sterling Expectations are a huge factor in building a narrative for a seven-game playoff series. Last year, the Indiana Pacers won 49 games, were the third seed, and faced a Game Five against the Atlanta Hawks with the series tied 2-2. This year, while in the same situation against a different Hawks team, […]
by Kent Sterling It’s always a little stunning when there is such outrage when an idiot opens his mouth. Human beings aren’t quite as bright as we like to think we are. People tend to enjoy disliking each other for their differences, and they have for the expanse of recorded history. I’m not sure why, […]
by Kent Sterling Earlier, I wrote about how the NBA should mandate that idiot Donald Sterling (no relation to me; he was born Donald Tokowitz) continue to own the Los Angeles Clippers as penance for the ignorance reflected in the racist comments reported yesterday by TMZ.com. A tape of a ridiculous conversation between Sterling and […]
by Kent Sterling There are so many questions without answers that fans and media have lost hope that Indiana can vanquish the giant killing Atlanta Hawks. If there has been an eight-seed that has looked more like a one-seed than the Hawks, I don’t remember it, and the reverse is true of the Pacers. Coach […]