Billy Paultz Reconsidered

7:00 p.m.- We are live from the sofa for the NBA draft. Everyone in my family is staring silently at a screen right now- but it’s four different screens in four different parts of the house. A real Norman Rockwell tableux.
By all accounts this draft is mediocre or worse, but the dealing of veteran players is […]

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Just because it’s an obvious idea doesn’t mean it’s not a good one: “Remembering Harry Kalas - Wonderful Stories from Friends Celebrating a Great Life” is a new book I’d recommend even if Friend of BPR Gordie Jones wasn’t involved in the project. It includes remembrances from everyone from Harry’s kids to a frat brother […]

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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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We’re coming at you live from the palatial living room of Chez Gross, where we’ll be one of only 67,428 bloggers doing an NBA draft lottery.
The ESPN crew is Stu Scott anchoring, with Jay Bilas, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson doing analysis from the desk. Stephen A. has his own little talk-show set off […]

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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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Driving in to work today I heard one of the Mikes say if he was a Spurs fan, he’d feel pretty good about last night all things considered.
Have to disagree. Strongly.
The Spurs got a huge game (30 and 18) from Tim Duncan. Kobe did one of his covert, see-I-don’t-have-to-shoot-all-the-time numbers for a half. The […]

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