I love basketball. I’ll watch any basketball at any level. Pros. College. High School. My buddy Erik looks like a bear cub trying to jerk off with boxing gloves on when he shoots hoops and I’d even watch that (my buddy shooting hoops, not the other thing). So, yes, I am very excited for the [...]

I want to begin by congratulating the Lakers for playing an excellent series and having what is so far been an undeniably impressive season. They were the superior team throughout this series and have undoubtedly earned their trip to the NBA Finals. Popovich has always said that the better team usually wins a seven game [...]

I’ve got to admit the playoffs have worn me down. The regular season, for all its flaws, has such a whimsical quality to it. There’s nothing on the line. I can watch the Timberwolves take out the Suns on a Wednesday night and just casually bathe in the schadenfreude of it all. Then somewhere along [...]

As I’m sure you already know, the NBA has announced that it will be imposing fines for “flopping” next season. Its unclear how large the fines will be or whether or not there will be increased fines for serial floppers. Needless to say, the Spurs jokes have come out of the woodwork. I must admit, [...]

OK. I am officially done with the whole Barry/Fisher foul controversy. I spit my flames, I got over it. If you want to whine about the call or bitch at me for complaining about the call thats fine, but I couldn’t care less at this point. Obviously he was fouled. Obviously the game was poorly [...]

So I huffed and puffed and didn’t blow anybody’s house down in the last 24 hours. I’ve come to grips with what happened last night and I want to move on to a topic that is either perfect or completely inappropriate for the present moment: Refereeing. Wait, before you run away screaming, I want to [...]

So last night was the first loss of this post-season after which I was genuinely pissed off (if you happen to check out the sizeable invective I wrote last night, its not hard to tell). That not only derives from the refereeing (which, don’t worry, I’m done discussing for the moment), but also from the [...]

So I’ve dealt with some very severe personal struggles about how to accurately analyze this game. Personally I feel some very strong emotions about the the final 5 minutes of game 4 and how the game was refereed. I traditionally have chosen not to comment on refereeing unless doing so under some sort of “impartial” [...]

So I’ve tried to cultivate the image that I, although a Spurs fan, am willing to recognize brilliance wherever it arises across the NBA landscape. I spoke highly of Chris Paul even when the Spurs were immersed in a knock-down, drag-out series with the Hornets, and I… wait, I actually never said anything nice about [...]

You gave’m hell Spurs. You made me proud. Let’s get down to business: Ginobili: I’m not even sure where to begin. Manu’s style was infectious, his will indestructible. Nailing three-pointers in transition. Elusively dropping acrobatic “and-one’s” in the paint. A wild-eyed and awkwardly contorted blur of indefensible terror. For me, no man symbolizes the creative [...]

Alright, Ladies and Gentlemen. The time is now. We are back in our house, where we are undefeated this post-season. We must be focused, and determined. We must play smart, aggressive basketball for 48 minutes. We must never let up. This isn’t just about rings; its about pride. Its about looking into the eyes of [...]

Obviously the Spurs are in a tough situation. In order to win the series we have to win 4 of the next 5 games. I fully believe we can do that, last round testifies to as much, but it will be more difficult than before. As this game unfolded it became increasingly clear how costly [...]

So I have absolutely nothing meaningful to say about tonight’s Spurs-Lakers game. What should the Spurs do? Win, I suppose. Ya, that’s about where I’m at. I would like it if we closed out a little more quickly on their shooters, I was a little frustrated with the open perimeter looks they were getting, particularly [...]

There Can Only Be One: When they came out, I was all about these guys. I thought they were elegant, intense, and articulate. I have also never had such an acute sense of how wildly ear placement on the human skull varies. But somewhere between an inevitably atrocious Adam Sandler movie, and Chris Paul talking [...]

Well that was frustrating. I typically associate blowing a 20 point lead with a team like the Suns, not the Spurs. Despite how belabored and obnoxious that comeback was, I think this game offered a lot of reasons to be optimistic. First and foremost, I don’t think this Lakers team stopped us because of a [...]