In March 2020, while we were just starting this long pandemic, I resolved to do more deep dives on NBA history stuff. The first result was an article revisiting Sports Illustrated’s Hank Hersch “10 Fearless Predictions” for the 1995-96 NBA…
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Quick Thoughts
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…
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”…
Revisiting Shaq’s 1999-00 MVP Voting
Apparently, even uber-successful stars are just like the rest of us. They are frustrated by the “what if” moments of life and focus on the regrets. To that end, on Monday, Shaquille O’Neal told an interviewer that he still detests…
Trae Young and Three-Point Futility
Time to check in on Trae Young, the player who was considered a Stephen Curry clone last year in college. So far, as a rookie, Young has looked like he has some uses as a playmaker in the NBA. At…