Tag Archives: Basketball

I compare the offensive and defensive ratings of the last 51 NBA champions to the league average in their years to see if it is true that “defense wins championships.”

I look back on the 2004 NBA Finals wherein the Detroit Pistons upset the Los Angeles Lakers and examine whether the Lakers should have been favored.

I apply the term “survive and advance” from March Madness to describe a common visual novel choice structure where multiple choices have at least one game over option.

The strange story of how a poorly thought out 1997 trade by a 14-68 team for a 35-year old power forward led to said team losing the #2 pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

In a 20-year retrospective, I offer my opinion on whether the Detroit Pistons should have drafted Carmelo Anthony with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.

Was an NBA player who was born in an overseas U.S. territory born “overseas” as the word is commonly understood?

Walking bear? I vote BALANCING bear.

Where we discover that early basket ball was sometimes uncomfortably close to football.

The first basketball game was played in 1891. Let’s see some original newspaper articles about the “new” sport from 1892.

An NBA Hall of Famer moonlighting as a crossing guard is only the set-up for this musing.

What do debates about impeaching POTUS and the untucked jersey of former NBA All Star Roy Hibbert have in common?

On the brief NBA career of Shawn Respert – who secretly played through treatment for stomach cancer