Welcome to another past diary! With it being August, the worst part of the NBA offseason there isn’t much to do or talk about besides old players and old games. This time it’s April 12 1997 and it’s Allen Iverson’s rookie season! Sixers vs Cavs! Let’s do this! The minute I find the game and put it on AI is getting crossed over. Well
I could try to capture the climate of the NBA Finals in words, or paint a picture of what has been a truly exciting and thrilling start to those Finals...but, there is something much more important that I feel the need to share with you. Earlier this week a beautiful musical tribute was paid to the most talked about athlete on the planet, LeBron
This is some sort of marketing campaign by Pepsi, and it turned out brilliantly. Kyrie Irving went through the make-up process to put on about 30 years in age to appear athletically unintimidating, going by the name Uncle Drew. He then made his way out to a park where a pick-up game was taking place and, when a player got injured, joined
The point guard problem with the Los Angeles Lakers seemed to be solved when they made a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers for Ramon Sessions and then completed a separate trade with the Houston Rockets to unload the aging Derek Fisher. However, the problem can't be solved if the resolution isn't applied. In other words, what does the
Back when I was 14, I spent an entire summer playing Live 95. Sure, I did other things; namely, play actual 'real life' basketball, as I was part of a generation that still went outside and exercised as kids. Now kids have so many toys they don't bother. I'm not as much criticizing as just saying, as if I had the awesome arsenal of things to
The NBA lockout replacement of the Homecoming Tour LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul were going to throw in December is officially cancelled. This sounds like bad news but in all honesty, I think all basketball fans will enjoy the other option much more, the 2011-12 NBA season. The tournament is no longer a replacement
Brett Roberts and I have been working on other projects, which has pushed our lists of the top 200 players to ever play in the NBA to the side for a short time. But, we're back with the next installment of 139-120. This segment of my list includes a couple current players, guards, big men, players from back in the day and the superstars we
We've now covered the entire Eastern Conference amnesty clause candidates. We're moving on to the West now, where we'll see which teams have the real albatross contracts, and which teams have been careful and prudent in building their roster (see: OKC). The amnesty clause is going to benefit some teams more than others, and we'll see who
