‘Perception’ (Melissa Majchrzak – NBAE/Getty Images)  
NBA commentators have developed ever-ingenious ways to slam the Leastern conference.  Despite the league’s two best records belonging to teams heralding from Boston and Detroit, every other Eastern Conference team would be battling with Golden State, Dallas, and Denver for the 7th and 8th seeds in the west.  While […]

Regretably my last blog was about . . . of all things, COMFORT.  That was, of course before we went down three players due to injury/illness.  I don’t blame the players for that.  They are human too.  We passed the head cold/flu around my house and it was so bad that we weren’t even WATCHING  […]

 
‘New Addition’ (Chris Trotman - NBA/Getty Images)

Los Angeles landed Pau Gasol. Phoenix is clearing multiple lockers to usher Shaq back into title contention (on a completely unrelated note, how fun would it be to see Shaq and Kobe square off in the playoffs?). Pressure is mounting for other GMs to pull the trigger […]

‘Paint Problems’ (Doug Pensinger - NBAE/Getty Images)
I watched the game. I heard the announcers and the post game and Coach Sloan. Know what, I am choosing to be more melancholy about this game. Here’s why.
We played the leader of our division - on their court– and we lost. We didn’t play […]

The first leg of the nasty road schedule the Jazz face now through Christmas got me to wondering about how the NBA schedule actually gets made. With the help of Google and a few early morning hours to myself, I learned a fair bit about how this happens. And you get your history lesson for […]