Our Long, National Nightmare of Not Being Able to Hate on LeBron is Over
NBA owners and players have reached a tentative agreement and if all goes well, play should resume on December 25th. It’s a Christmas miracle!…
“Because of the H.I.V. virus that I have attained, I will have to retire from the Lakers today.”
Twenty years ago today we thought Magic Johnson was going to die. And not in a “someday” kind of way. But quickly, and unavoidably, and painfully. In 1991 you did not live with HIV, you died of AIDS. And AIDS…
NBA cancels first two weeks of season
Put your NBA fantasy league on the back burner and your tweets about how much you hate LeBron James on hold (that may just apply to me) because David Stern announced the league has canceled the first two weeks of…
Malcolm Gladwell on Bruce Ratner and the Barclays Center
Malcolm Gladwell: The rich have gone from being grateful for what they have to pushing for everything they can get. They have mastered the arts of whining and predation, without regard to logic or shame. In the end, this is…
Artest Officially Changes Name to “Metta World Peace”
Some stories just write themselves:
After a slight delay thanks to some unpaid parking tickets, the Los Angeles Lakers forward formerly known as Ron Artest has officially become Metta World Peace.
The three-week holdup was settled Friday, the parking…
Pat Summit Reveals Dementia Diagnosis
“There’s not going to be any pity party […] and as far as I’m concerned it’s not going to keep me from living my life, not going to keep me from coaching.”
Summit has 1,079 career victories…
The Worm in The Hall
Dennis Rodman is being enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame today. I loved watching Rodman play. He quietly antagonized every opponent, got in their heads, made them take the first swing, and then manage to look at the…
There’s No “I” In Magic
For a month now — eight practices and two pre-season games — I have been the coach of a kids’ basketball team. The squad is composed of nine-, ten- and eleven-year-olds, of vastly different experience and skill. This makes for…
LeBron James, America’s Sweetheart?
So I’m perusing the internet yesterday, as one does when they get home from work and are putting off making dinner, and I come across a blog or a tweet or a Facebook status (they all blend together at…
Haters Gonna Hate
I, of course, am a Lakers fan. This is as it should be, as all right-thinking people are Lakers fans. Hating the Lakers, I thought well into my mid-thirties, is like hating sunshine. Turns out, there are a lot of…
