Injuries already taking toll on NBA
Given that the season started just one month after the NBA’s damaging and embarrassing lockout ended, and that teams had one week for training camp (not two) and two preseason games (not the usual six...
View ArticleFeel the Lin-sanity
By now, everyone in America – basketball fan or otherwise – has heard of the sensational story of Jeremy Lin. The news is spreading around the world so fast that this article (which I have been...
View ArticlePositive impact being felt from coaching changes
What a difference a coach makes. Mike Woodson’s all-too-timely promotion to head coach of the New York Knicks is seeing a recently-ailing franchise currently enjoying its second sudden, unexpected...
View ArticleA respectful farewell to David Stern
It is difficult to grasp quite how far the NBA has come in the almost thirty years that David Stern has been at the helm. Stern became commissioner in 1984, when the league could not even get its...
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