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In the last few weeks, the NBA has lost a few interesting characters.  The particularly untimely passing was of Wayman Tisdale, the former power forward, who had a decent NBA career after a storied college career.  I was actually pretty surprised to see so many nice articles about Tisdale, whose pro career was not great.  The near consensus of all the stories I saw was that Tisdale was a great and affable guy, a talented musician, and decent pro (and a great collegian).  I thought I'd take a … [Read more...] about Re-Considering Wayman

Most believe that NBA title contention is likely limited to Boston, Cleveland, and the Los Angeles Lakers.  I was just checking out Basketball-Reference's cool playoff probability reports, which essentially confirm all of our hunches on this point.  As of right now, each team of these teams has about the same chance of winning the title (with Cleveland a little bit higher on the totem pole).  Moreover, each team is projected to win at least 63 games.  Assuming everyone stays healthy, all three … [Read more...] about Top Heavy NBA

1.    The Things We Say:    We're not too interested about what's going on this All-Star Weekend.  We don't loath the show but frankly it's just not that much of a priority for us.  That being said, the NBA All-Star weekend is probably the most interesting of such events (for whatever that's worth).  Rather than get too much into the All-Star show, I thought we'd reflect on a few of the interesting happens of the past week, some of which can be filtered through some quotes that I found … [Read more...] about Quick Thoughts