Hoops and Other Pop Culture

If you review the list below, you can see exactly how dominant LeBron James has become as an all-time playoff performer.  Currently, there i...

Voting summary (5 points for a first-team vote, 3 for 2nd-team, 1 for 3rd, 100 voters): First Team All-NBA 2017 1. Harden received 100...

In March and April of 2015 I listed my top 36 NBA players of all-time. I was chatting with a friend the other day and he said, "You...

I coached youth basketball for many years.  Here are my 7 favorite "youth basketball parents" stories. 7.  "My Kid Can Sco...

No one seems to recall that the complaints against O'Reilly stretch at least as far back as 2004, when he famously conflated the word ...

I have previously opined upon Andrew Wiggins and determined that he is an "inefficient scorer" type of player who is deficient in...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/witness-ex-nfl-star-shot-men-spilled-drink-180005313--nfl.html Was concerned he was considered as "...

https://theringer.com/ringer-video-nba-referee-hotline-karl-anthony-towns-russell-westbrook-chandler-parsons-1c583e45570d#.l1b7ei3c1 Of th...

Russell Westbrook has always been a guy who had a high "Usage Rate".  Usage Rate, broadly defined, is the % of your team's pl...

Sam Bradford checking in on the Vikings' offseason o-line progress pic.twitter.com/O2kyv6fRyt — xtina (@cyvonne1229) March 9, 2017

I have these spread out throughout my Blog, but so you have it in one spot: 1. Michael Jordan 2. Wilt Chamberlain 3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ...

With Wiggy's recent scoring and shooting tear, his advanced stats are slowly improving.  His Net Rating is now only -6 (Ortg 108, DRtg 1...

There were some criteria imposed.  First, the game had to be in the www.basketball-reference.com database.  Second, the game had to be in a...

As we have inaugurated a man who is clearly unqualified for the job, and who has demonstrated no desire or ability to learn the job, and wh...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/giant-alligator-caught-video-nature-reserve-44806143?cid=social_twitter_abcn Jesus.  This animal is 20+ fe...

I used to coach town-team "traveling basketball" and AAU basketball, both for boys and girls.  We would have long practices before...

The Wolves were 5-13 when I last complained about them.   They have since gone 6-9 (5-4 in their past 9).  Not that good, but better.  Of ...

www.basketball-reference.com , which is the greatest website ever invented, will allow you to search for players by age.  They define "...