1. All-Star Game A Mistake?: It looks like we will have an NBA All-Star game this year even though the pandemic has made things more complicated. Even in the best of the times, the All-Star game was of dubious utility…
The Shove Heard Around the World: Fortson v. Colangelo
Last week, we looked at Butch Carter’s weird defamation lawsuit against Marcus Camby. Well, it ain’t the only weird NBA defamation lawsuit! Today, we’ll look at the litigious aftermath of a hard foul a few years later. On November 26,…
A Lookback at Butch Carter v. Marcus Camby
The First Amendment has been getting a work out recently. The number of high profile defamation suits seems larger than ever. All these lawsuits took my mind to the NBA and defamation. Specifically, the lawsuit I remember that came one…
Breaking Down the Harden Deal
How do you wrap your head around this recent James Harden trade? This epically large trade was as follows: Nets get: James Harden from Rockets, 2024 second-round pick from Cavs Rockets get: Caris Levert, Rodions Kurucs, three first-round picks (2022,…
The Webber/Nelson Feud Revisited
James Harden’s recent unhappiness in Houston is likely taking them to the point where they will have to trade their megastar under duress. This isn’t the first time a big star has held a franchise hostage and forced a trade…
LaMelo and Bad Rookie Debuts
One of the happenings from the first week of the NBA season was the execrable debut of LaMelo Ball (0-5 from the field and no points). The NBA web is in a tizzy about Ball noting that he “looked lost”…