Craig Hodges

Q&A With Ben Joravsky on Krause, MJ, and The Last Dance

June 3, 2020 by Harlan Schreiber

Since 1981, Ben Joravsky has been writing about Chicago politics primarily for the Chicago Reader. In addition to his long history on the political beat, Ben is a huge Chicago sports fan and his favorite team is the Bulls. Ben’s love of hoops allows him to get off politics for a bit and write about sports. Ben also has a regular podcast, The Ben Jorasky Show, where he reviews politics and hoops (he recently spoke to Craig Hodges about Michael Jordan’s documentary). Back in 1990, … [Read more...] about Q&A With Ben Joravsky on Krause, MJ, and The Last Dance

Looking Back At The Marques Johnson Trade

January 26, 2019 by Harlan Schreiber Leave a Comment

On the heels of our deep dive into retired numbers, the Bucks announced they would retire Marques Johnson’s numbers. My initial reaction was that Johnson was a great player but I wasn’t sure he was good enough or beloved enough in Milwaukee to get the honor. I vaguely recalled that his departure from the Bucks was a complicated story. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at Johnson’s Milwaukee tenure and assess if the detailed reviewed of his career and trade all these years later … [Read more...] about Looking Back At The Marques Johnson Trade

The End of Craig Hodges’ Career

March 21, 2018 by Harlan Schreiber Leave a Comment

In the last year, Craig Hodges, former NBA guard, wrote an engaging book his NBA career in the 1980s and early 1990s called “Long Shot,” describing his attempts to build a career and how his social activism may have ended career early. I caught an excerpt of Long Shot and Hodges set a picture where asserted that, as a player on the original Bull Threepeat, he felt that there was collusion to end his career prematurely based upon the social activism. In the book, Hodges wrote that, after the … [Read more...] about The End of Craig Hodges’ Career