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Boston lost a game on Wednesday to a blown layup and another on Thursday to a banked-in three. It doesn’t matter who did what, the Celtics are 18-21 and a game out of the play-in tournament, directly behind the Knicks, bing, bong. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are Actually
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It was hard to watch Joel Embiid in December because it was December, and it barely counted. Embiid is as good as this league gets, his offensive rebound and put-back sealed a win for Philly on Tuesday, only the team’s 18th in 34 tries. Daryl Morey’s Gadarene instinct
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The NBA isn’t really an NBA right now. It isn’t the fault of the replacement players — Wes Iwundu is still better than anything else on television — only the fault of everyone you went to high school with for declining life-saving vaccinations. Thanks a lot, Jeremy Beauchamp, class of
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Neil Olshey was not the guy who won with the Clippers, nobody’s ever won with the Clippers, yet we treated Olshey like he done, done it. The second round isn’t even second place, and for too many years we fêted Olshey as if he’d turned the corner
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The Pacers filled the team with final pieces: Domantas Sabonis, Malcolm Brogdon, Myles Turner, T.J. Warren, Caris LeVert, especially Chris Duarte. Killer fourth guys, maybe thirds, nobody that fills seats. This year’s model is cursed with rough “luck” in the clutch and an injury count bleaker than most,
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The concept is silly/awesome. Every current NBA team has a hole to fill, I find a player from their past who could improve things in spite of the setbacks inherent in temporal paradox. We don’t allow All-Stars in the time machine, either. THE CONTENDERS GOLDEN STATE The Warriors
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Remember when we spent the better part of a decade crediting Shaquille O’Neal with keeping his cool while opponents hacked with abandon, well yeah. LeBron James was done with the NBA’s regular season when he moved to Los Angeles, it’s the time change, games at 10:30
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Charlotte 106, Golden State 102 Clingy game, 25 lead changes, 14 ties, neither side was able to put the other at arm’s length. Seven was the largest advantage. Golden State would not hit in the fourth quarter, 6-22 and ohfer nine on threes in spite of myriad opportunities to
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Indiana 111, Utah 100 Impressive win for the Pacers. Don’t care. Get to the fight: Turner and Gobert talked all evening, Turner was hot from outside yet unable to keep Rudy from his occasional Gobert lobber-ooo. And, yeah, Rudy Gobert pulling Turner down by his shorts is super lame.
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You know how these work, right? HOT: MIAMI D Pretty good. NOT: LAKER D Pretty bad. Hots and nots, you gots it. HOT: THE NATION’S CAPITOL Things are moving in D.C., papers are passing and hands are raising and those busy-bee-rights in the 117th Congress aren’t the
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In 2001, after lengthy consternation (Don + Walt bribed Rolling Stone founder/perv Jann Wenner with a large 3M digital recording machine, $10,000, and “a crate of homemade honey mustard”), Steely Dan were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same good company as Queen. Fun