LaMarcus Aldridge is the prize of the NBA off-season, the free agent almost every team is trying to get an interview with, as if an interview in and of itself, the ability to market a franchise, city, team, can hook and ladder Aldridge into the waiting hands of a fanbase, and in turn, deliver a…
Suddenly the Lakers are the bold kid on the block. No longer afraid of consequences, they are going big. It’s been a while since the Lakers front office took a risk and then celebrated their aggression. It has been dull ineptitude that marked these past few years of misery. The Lakers went the safe route that bored…
When seven out of eleven voters rebuked LeBron James because he was a loser and dismissed Steph Curry because he wasn’t dominant, it was a historic occurrence. The NBA is a league in which highly paid stars stir the drink and fill the seats and pile up the money. They slant the narrative. The stars are the story even when they are not…
It was an end to a miserable era, a 40 year death march, an up and down- talent here, talent wasted Golden State Warriors 40 year catastrophe. The Warriors went nine years without making the playoffs (1978-86). They went thirteen years without making the playoffs (1995-2006). They drafted Purvis Short instead of Larry Bird. They whiffed on…