Billy Paultz Reconsidered

I don’t have anything useful to say about Michael Jackson, but Jeff Pearlman does.
The definitive NBA draft diary. Let’s just say Simmons and I disagree dramatically about Tyreke Evans.
Matt Yglesias has a contrarian, but somewhat sensible, take on Minnesota buying point guards like they’re hamburger buns.
Because lists are good fun, here’s one man’s top 50 players […]

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Here’s a list of the NBA’s all-time top 50 players by Slam magazine. It’s easy to quibble and there are one or two obvious howlers (Dennis Rodman but not Bill Walton or Pete Maravich?) but overall, it’s a better list than I expected. Dissent welcome.
As of Wednesday night, the “aftershow” part of Artie Lange’s hideous/spectacular performance […]

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Here’s one of three segments of the latest edition of The Low Post, in which Starkie and I compare the Lakers to the great teams and Kobe to the great players.
This is segment two, recapping the NBA Finals.
Segment three: are Eagles fans all in all just pretty darn happy with Big Red, Banner, McNabb and Co.?

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Only an ignoramus would say a playoff series was over before it’s, you know, over, but I can’t imagine Cleveland beating Orlando at this point, and nothing that happened last night (the Cavs’ game five win) changes that.
It’s been said that the games have been so close that the Cavs could almost as easily be […]

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Re the Orlando-Boston series: Kevin Garnett gets hurt and the entire population of New England goes into emergency management mode and there’s media coverage of how he looked tying his shoes at the shootaround the other day, and nobody mentions that fact that Orlando has played without an all-star point guard for four months?
Watching/listening to/reading […]

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Lebron James is the best and most valuable player in basketball by a sizable margin. He was the real MVP last year. That said, I was a little surprised to see how thoroughly Bron-bron dominated the MVP voting considering some of the dumb arguments that have been made against him, i.e.  Kobe’s really the MVP because […]

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This really is one of the best sports days of the year, the culmination of The Madness plus real Opening Day for baseball.
I say real Opening Day because of what an abomination it is that ESPN messes things up by pushing a game to Sunday. This is the day you call in sick (if you work […]

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I actually thought this would happen. Give credit to Bill Simmons, via one of his maibags, for acknowledging that it has:
Q: Clark Kellogg is talking about baking soda and Jim Nantz has to do everything including telling viewers that Blake Griffin is being doubled every time down the floor. Admit it. You miss me, don’t […]

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I have this blog… maybe you heard something about it, despite the fact that it’s been deeper in disappearance mode than Lamar Odom.
Ba-zing.
Anyway, some thoughts on what’s been going on in my absence. Let’s see, uh, we’ve been to the moon….
Seriously, the Lakers have been so bad through four Finals games that it not only […]

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It’s another long Saturday night in the office. Random observations, etc. …
Two posts down is a reprint of a column I did for the Sunday News’ Living section about my kid and his interest in politics and him so looking forward to voting in the primary. Which reminds me: When we actually did walk down […]

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