With no new basketball to watch, the new ESPN documentary “The Last Dance” has brought a lot of attention, again, on the Michael Jordan Bulls. The documentary is ostensibly about the 1997-98 Bulls and Michael Jordan’s final title run that…
Magic’s First Game: A Snap Shot of the NBA Circa 1979
In order to make the best of life without NBA games, NBA TV and other networks have been showing a ton of older games. Most of them are well-remembered (i.e., Isiah Thomas’ scoring rampage on a sprained ankle in 1988,…
Jordan v. Stackhouse in DC: Who Was Better?
Without regular basketball to watch, the rest of the NBA world gets to the backwards looking that is usually reserved for sites like this one. A fascinating issue was dredged up recently by Jerry Stackhouse, who told Adrian Wojnarowski’s Woj…
2019-20 NBA Award Picks
The wind of excitement for the 2019-20 season is clearly waning. It’s fair to assume that the regular season is over and we are left to guess if there ever will be playoffs in some form. Let’s take a pause…
Would Anyone Have Beaten Jordan In 1993-94?
With indefinite malaise upon us, we turn back in time again and ask a hypothetical question: Would anyone have beaten the 1993-94 Bulls if Michael Jordan had not retired? As a brief recap, the Bulls had two separate three-peats, from 1990-91…
Revisiting SI’s 1995-96 Fearless NBA Predictions
Having time off from everything give us time to mess around with random things that pique our interest. Digging deeper into old NBA stories fits that bill. With the NBA season in hiatus, I thought we could re-examine some old…