All Entries in the "Basketball" Category
Uncle Drew for Pepsi Max: Maximum awesome
I’m pretty cynical and critical of a lot of brand marketing stuff. That’s why I’ve got to give some props to the folks at Pepsi MAX. Who knows if YouTube views will translate to sales, but you got this guy talking about the brand where he likely wouldn’t have before. Here’s Kyrie Irving starring as [...]
VIDEO: CP3′s sick game-winning bucket against Thunder
Chris Paul has made the Clippers relevant again. Last night, he led them to a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in rather stunning fashion. Paul dropped 31 along with six boards and four assists. But it was a drive in the closing seconds that was his loudest statement of the night. With the game [...]
How the Cavs should handle Kyrie Irving for the rest of the season
Hello Legend faithful. Time to answer the question that is no doubt on the top of all of your minds, how do the Cavs handle precocious rookie Kyrie Irving going down the stretch? The answer is simple. Bench him. Send him to Aruba (or any nice tropical get-away). Stick him in a tub full [...]
The Anthony Davis hype train has officially jumped the rails
Bill Russell. Wilt Chamberlain. Tim Duncan. Hakeem Olajuwon. Patrick Ewing. Lew Alcindor. All-time greats. Legends. An exclusive club of hoops-defining big men. Apparently, they already need to make room for a new member — a 19 year-old kid who’s played one season of collegiate basketball. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the Anthony Davis hype train is [...]
Thursday Tourney action tough to stomach
I was fairly excited. Home relatively early on a Thursday evening. A full slate of meaningful tourney games. Spread out nicely. Forget what I said about college basketball. It’s on, right? Unfortunately, it was on. And it was awful to watch. One of the interesting side effects of having a young child at home is [...]
Remember when Indiana was 6-25? Tom Crean’s Hoosier resurrection
What’s that? You’ve heard this story before? I don’t care. It bears repeating for anyone who’s taken their eye off the college basketball scene for a few decades and assumed that the Indiana Hoosiers appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 is just the same old, same old. It’s not. Not in recent years. In [...]
Farewell Mistress Bracket
Originally published in March of 2008. Believe it or not, I’ve stayed strong since. Although it remains a struggle each and every day. Hell hath no fury like a bracket lover scorned… She’s been a part of my life since my early youth. She took me in. Seduced me with her beauty. Tauntingly dangling that [...]
Defending Doug Gottlieb (well, not really)
It started at about 1:00pm yesterday. I’ve never quite understood when or why people decide to share their thoughts on Facebook for all the world to see, but it was pretty clear what had happened. Doug Gottlieb struck again. The history goes like this: Gottlieb began as a college hoops analyst for ESPN around 2004, [...]
What happened to college basketball?
Honestly, WTF just happened? A second ago it was 1992. I was a teenager and couldn’t get enough college basketball. Could. Not. Get. Enough. My friends taunted me for watching the third game of a Super Tuesday triple-header (which always seemed to feature Long Beach State for some reason, which is neither here nor there). [...]
Landry Fields takes on “Billionaire”… and scores
If you’re a Knicks season ticket subscriber, it gets you some perks. Over the past few seasons, that’s meant overpriced seats for a terribly unwatchable product. Things may be a ‘changin. Juuuust sayin’. It’s only been one game back from the break, but the Knicks are becoming a hot ticket – if only for the [...]
