Hoops and Other Pop Culture

Charles Barkley does not rank LeBron James as a top 7 player, in part, because LeBron had a "head start" in his first 13 seasons. ...

Interesting to note, earlier in the game, Iguodala had a layup where he attempted a reverse layup and was fouled. James obviously subc...

Boston last night was sitting at #3 and everyone said they would take Kris Dunn and trade him.  But there was a rub.  The Celts have 4 guard...

In the movie "Bad Teacher" Jason Segel plays a gym teacher arguing with a grade school student over the Jordan/LeBron debate.  The...

Here is what I have done, I took my top 18 players (ranked in 2015) and ESPN's top 18 ranked players (ESPN ranked early 2016) and elimi...

Exhibit A -- Peter King (not the football writer, the Congressman): Guy is a terror suspect, can we: 1) tap his phone?  Yes. 2) listen ...

What would be a reasonable expectation for a LeBron James game against Golden State?  I mean, would a 30 point triple double be adequate?  W...

Generally the worse team in any series will get a game. It is almost always Game 3 featuring a huge pop from the fan base or Game 4 where th...

When you hold Steph Curry and Klay Thompson to 20 points on around 25% shooting, and your three best guys score 65 points, you think you oug...

http://bkref.com/tiny/wGWBL Certainly we can take into account that some of these guys have played a LOT more games and minutes than Curry...

Guy on Twitter just compared me to Michael Scott's great "boom roasted" routine.

The Cavs are 9-0 this post season after throttling Toronto in Cleveland last night.  So, will they go 16-0 and become the only team to ever ...

When I plugged this search in, I had no idea that it would net so few guys.  I guess it is really hard to get to 1,000 in all three stats: ...

http://hoopshype.com/2016/05/05/lebron-james-has-joined-kareem-and-shaq-in-a-very-select-club/ This knocks Tim Duncan out of the top 5 in ...

@emrata is a huge Bernie Sanders supporter and she takes pictures that look like this.

When I awoke this morning, I learned that Sam Mitchell was fired by the Timberwolves.  There have been several Timberwolves coaches where th...

http://espn.go.com/pdf/2016/0406/nba_hinkie_redact.pdf A few thoughts: 1) My dad liked to heat our farmhouse with a wood burning stove, ...

http://3qh929iorux3fdpl532k03kg.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UNC-FINAL-REPORT.pdf While you really need to be a Poll...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ds8wQcptZuo Really an amazing decision.  How much would they need to pay you f...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/clash-of-republican-con-artists.html?_r=0 And I imagine that Krugman had to write this piece wit...