I may just watch this on a loop all day long.
I can’t thank all of you that come to this site, read and comment, and make this a real community. I am just the fortunate caretaker, it is all of you that make this site special, and made watching the Lakers reach this pinnacle an [...]
“It is the second game and not the first that dictates the tempo and the mood of the series.”
-Brent Musburger before Game 2 after the “Memorial Day Massacre”.
A brief history of the Lakers, The Finals, and Game 2.
1984: Gerald Henderson steals the ball. Celtics win in 7.
1985: Kareem has 30 points, 17 rebounds, eight [...]
The game we watch today has Chuck Daly’s fingerprints all over it. From the ticky-tack nature of assessing what level of physicality is allowed to the way Kobe is guarded. It was Daly’s Bad Boys who, along with the Knicks and Pat Riley, turned the game “ugly” in the late 80’s and early 90’s by [...]
The title of this post is a reference to a famous Joni Mitchell song, Big Yellow Taxi. It’s a song that has been redone, reworked, and used multiple times in pop culture. But, this isn’t a music history blog and I’m not the guy to talk to about songs released in 1970. So, I’m not going to break down the melody or try to [...]
In 1989 Glen Rice entered the national basketball consciousness by scoring 31 points for the Michigan Wolverines in 1989 NCAA championship game. Rice and Rumeal Robinson would lead the Wolverines to an overtime victory of PJ Carlesimo’s Cinderella Seton Hall team.
The shot was pure. The rim was a prop. The net’s movement, or lack thereof, [...]
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