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2009-10 Western Conference Preview
Last year, I correctly picked seven of the eight Western Conference playoff teams. I matched that mark in 2007-08 and went 6/8 in both 2006-07 and 2005-06, putting my four year percentage at .813 (26/32).Yesterday I posted my Eastern Conference Preview; this preview has the same format, with the following eight teams ranked based on their likelihood of making it to the Finals and...
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October 16, 2009
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Interview With Sacramento Kings' Assistant Coach Pete Carril
This interview was originally published in two parts at Suite101.com on April 6, 2005 and April 7, 2005.Hall of Famer Pete Carril won 525 games and 13 Ivy League championships during his 30 year collegiate coaching career. His Princeton teams ranked first in the NCAA in scoring defense 14 times and in 1975 he led the Tigers to the NIT Championship, the only time that an Ivy League...
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October 05, 2009
Interview With Dallas Mavericks' Assistant Coach Del Harris
This interview was originally published at Suite101.com on April 11, 2005.Del Harris, the NBA Coach of the Year in 1994-95, won 556 games in 14 seasons as an NBA head coach. He guided the Houston Rockets to the NBA Finals in 1981, his second season as an NBA head coach. Harris later led the Milwaukee Bucks to the playoffs for four straight seasons (1988-1991) even though the Bucks...
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September 26, 2009
Pro Basketball's 1000 Rebound Club: The Meek Need Not Apply for Membership
This article was originally published in the February 2004 issue of Basketball Digest.Pro basketball's 1000 rebound club is the hard hat-wearing, lunch pail-carrying counterpart to the 2000 point club. Points can be scored from inside the paint, outside the arc and one at a time from the free throw line but in most cases there is only one way to get rebounds: venture into the...
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September 14, 2009
Pro Basketball’s 2000 Point Club: Iron Men Who Shoot With a Feathery Touch
This article was originally published in the December 2003 issue of Basketball Digest.
Certain numbers are golden: 1000 yards rushing or receiving, 3000 yards passing, 40 home runs. Yet, in a 16 game NFL season a player can average less than 63 yards a game and accumulate 1000 yards; 17 players rushed for 1000-plus yards in 2002 and more than 20 receivers gained 1000-plus yards...
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August 27, 2009
Interview with Bob Lanier and NBA Senior VP Kathy Behrens
This article was originally published at Suite101.com on March 16, 2005.Hall of Famer Bob Lanier averaged 20.1 ppg and 10.1 rpg in his 14 year career, making the All-Star team eight times and winning the All-Star Game MVP in 1974 (24 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocked shots). Lanier was also the MVP of the 1972 NBA-ABA All-Star Game, scoring 15 points in the NBA's 106-104 victory...
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August 20, 2009
Pro Basketball's 100-100 Club
This article was originally published in the April 2002 issue of Basketball Digest; I submitted it with the title "Pro Basketball's Greatest Ball Hawks" but for some strange reason the editor awkwardly renamed it "Basketball's Inside-Out Superstars." I still don't know what that is supposed to mean but in any case it hardly provides an accurate or meaningful description of the subject...
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August 16, 2009
Artis Gilmore: When Will the A-Train Arrive at the Hall of Fame?
A slightly different version of this article was originally published in the December 9, 2005 issue of Sports Collectors Digest.Gilmore Puts Jacksonville on the Basketball MapArtis Gilmore played two years at Gardner-Webb Junior College before bursting into national prominence by leading Jacksonville to the 1970 NCAA Championship game against the UCLA Bruins. Despite 19 points and...
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August 10, 2009
Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown: They Dunk, You Decide
This summer, Sprite has held a series of Slam Dunk Showdowns around the country; the top competitor from each of the eight cities that Sprite visited--plus two additional dunkers selected by LeBron James--are now vying for the opportunity to win a $10,000 grand prize and be involved with the 2010 Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star Weekend. Fan voting will determine the winners, with...
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July 30, 2009
The ABA "Ol’ School Reunion" Rates a Perfect 10
A shorter version of this article was originally published in the July 29, 2005 issue of Sports Collectors Digest.A Special Event Brings the ABA Family to DenverThe "ABA Ol' School Reunion" kicked off on the afternoon of Thursday February 17, 2005 when several ABA players—including Rick Darnell, Mike Davis, Willie Davis, Joe Hamilton, Bobby Jones, Warren Jabali, Eugene...
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July 30, 2009
When Did Kobe Bryant Really Become A Team Player?
Lost in all this, 'Kobe won his 4th championship' talk is the fact his teammates played great in the postseason. No Pau, Lamar, Ariza, Fisher, no win. -Tas
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July 23, 2009
Billy Cunningham: The “Kangaroo Kid” has Never Forgotten his Tar Heel Roots
This article was originally published in the January 2006 issue of Tar Heel Monthly. Billy Cunningham was known as the “Kangaroo Kid” because of his tremendous leaping ability but that nickname also aptly describes how he successfully jumped from playing to coaching to broadcasting to being an owner. Cunningham starred at North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, a turbulent period for...
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July 05, 2009
Stephon Marbury: Insert Your Own Punchline
Stephon Marbury says that collecting roughly $18 million from the New York Knicks for not playing for the team in the 2008-09 season "mentally damaged" him. You cannot make this stuff up; just insert your own punchline--and I'll even give you a head start by quoting a statement Marbury made four years ago: "I'm telling you what it is: I know I'm the best point ...
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July 04, 2009
Larry Miller: Tar Heel Legend and ABA Single Game Scoring Leader
This article was originally published in the October 2005 issue of Tar Heel Monthly; since that time, L.A. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in a game versus the Toronto Raptors.Larry Miller won both the ACC Player of the Year Award and the ACC Tournament MVP in 1967 and 1968 as a Tar Heel, an accomplishment that not even Hall of Famers Bob McAdoo or Michael Jordan matched...
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July 02, 2009
Etched in Time: George Vlosich III Turns a Child’s Toy into a Unique Sports Collectible
A slightly different version of this article was originally published in the November 12, 2004 issue of Sports Collectors Digest under the title "Etch a Sketch Prodigy George Vlosich III Conquers New Worlds".The answers to the two questions most frequently asked of George Vlosich III are "Hard work and dedication" and "No, it won’t erase if you shake it...
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June 30, 2009
Michael Jackson's Artistry Will Never be Matched or Forgotten
It would be so much simpler if legends did not have feet of clay. When the great chess champion Bobby Fischer passed away last year, I wrote about his "mixed legacy." Michael Jackson passed away on Thursday at just 50 years of age and I am sure that most people know both that he was a great singer/dancer and that he tarnished his good name with sordid conduct, including...
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June 26, 2009
Shaquille O'Neal Trade Overshadows Draft
Several trades overshadowed Thursday's NBA Draft, with the biggest move--literally and figuratively--sending Shaquille O'Neal from Phoenix to Cleveland in exchange for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, a conditional second round 2010 draft pick and cash.It is fascinating that for years we have been told how much Steve Nash makes his teammates better, yet despite being surrounded...
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June 26, 2009
How Good are the Lakers Compared to Recent Championship Teams?
The L.A. Lakers are often called the most talented and/or deepest team in the NBA. I am skeptical of both claims: the Boston Celtics at full strength are more talented--they have three future Hall of Famers--and there are many teams that have more productive benches than the Lakers, who ranked 16th in the NBA in points per game by bench players during the 2009 regular season; even...
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June 23, 2009
Hal Greer: Productive, Consistent and Durable
This article originally appeared in the January 2006 issue of Hoop.Star Guard on a Team for the Ages Hal Greer made the All-NBA Second Team seven straight years but never was selected to the All-NBA First Team. That’s what happens when you play during the same era as Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, but Greer--a 10-time All-Star who was honored as one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest...
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June 23, 2009
Deconstructing Bad Writing: Krolik's Slam Job on Kobe Bryant, Part II
Part I of this series examined John Krolik's deeply flawed article about why game seven of the Lakers-Rockets series would prove to be the biggest game of Bryant's career.I casually referenced Krolik's article a few times in posts/comments at 20 Second Timeout, prompting Krolik to author a lengthy rebuttal. This post is my response to that rebuttal.Part II: Krolik'...
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June 22, 2009
Deconstructing Bad Writing: Krolik's Slam Job on Kobe Bryant, Part I
I recently explained specifically why the "New and Improved Slam 2009 Top 50" is a subpar product. Writing is a craft and it is disappointing when people who are allegedly professionals do not take that craft seriously. I'm not trying to call out people by name--the only writer I mentioned in that piece is one who did an above average job--but sometimes writing is so...
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June 21, 2009
Walt Frazier: The Embodiment of Seventies Style
This article originally appeared in the December 2005 issue of HoopClyde and the PearlWalt Frazier was the soul and the spirit of the New York Knicks in the early 1970s—unflappable, unselfish, versatile and smooth, he embodied the essence of what made those teams special. In game seven of the 1970 NBA Finals, Willis Reed famously overcame a painful leg injury and nailed his first...
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June 20, 2009
Slam Top 50 is a Typically Sloppy Production
Someone who is affiliated with Slam/Slam Online recently emailed me and very cordially asked me to explain why I have made derogatory references to Slam/Slam Online. I responded by citing several specific examples that demonstrate what I call the "amateur hour" quality of a lot of the work being published at both places; this is a theme that I initially explored in December...
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June 18, 2009
The Greatest Scoring Machines in Pro Basketball History
A slightly different version of this article was originally published in the January 2002 issue of Basketball Digest.When discussing the greatest scorers in pro basketball history it is only natural to look at career scoring average. Once a player scores 10,000 points or participates in 400 regular season games he is eligible to be ranked among the career points per game leaders...
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June 17, 2009
The Big Diesel is Getting Smaller and Smaller
Shaquille O'Neal will always be a towering figure in basketball history but in the past few years he has become a little smaller. Kobe Bryant refuted O'Neal's profane, classless rap by leading the Lakers to the 2009 championship with a Finals MVP performance, proving that he could indeed "do without" Shaq. Meanwhile, O'Neal presided over one of the most precipitous collapses by a...
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June 17, 2009
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