I’m going to miss a mostly Curryless Russia-USA game due to a marauding wisdom tooth. It’s rearing its ugly cap en route to punching my face in slow motion. Impressively, the tooth has survived in secrec...
Maybe it's the intense, dry, brain boiling heat of Las Vegas, or the conversation with outside basketball observers, but I feel a bit better than I did last week about the AR trade.
Trading young athletic fo...
(One minor note: I'm finally using my full name, not that any sane person should care. I wanted some distance from an old NBA PR job, but those days seem long gone. Might as well go full government name.)
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If the Warriors defense was dead, now it’s in hell.
Guard-Stephen Curry
Guard-Monta Ellis
Small Forward-Reggie Williams
Power Forward-Vladimir Radmanovic
Center-David Lee
If Nellie sprin...
Lee is many things, but a true center ain't one of 'em. The Knicks got away with playing Lee at the 5 because the East is still pretty weak overall. The West has teams with legitimately huge power forwards and centers: Bynum/Gasol, Cousins, Yao, TD, Nene, Kaman--I'll even include Sideshow Bob Lopez in Phoenix because he really showed me something last year, and he's definitely enormous.
by Sherwood Strauss
Forgive a slight detour from Warriors draft rants. I was listening to the hilarious Disciples of Clyde Podcast when their discussion of Patrick Ewing’s coaching prospects chafed my ch...
Warriors World
By: Sherwood Strauss
Blowouts
A quick recap on a too-quick weekend—though the Dallas game took forever.
Mavs > Cohans
The Mavericks got another sliver of revenge for 2007—thou...