Shooting With The Stars is a series where we analyze the technical basketball skill and the ins-and-outs of the basketball competitions we see in movies and television shows without any consideration for the context and overall plot. The stakes are high and the game is crammed with four hundred years of tension. At the famous… Read More Shooting With The Stars: American History X Edition
I hate to break it to everyone, but this season’s trade deadline is going to be a huge let down. The truth is there won’t be that many total trades. Blake Griffin will be the only star traded (definitely not Kawhi Leonard), and a majority of the trades that actually do happen will be moving… Read More NBA Trade Deadline Hopes And Dreams
Last Season: 31-51 (.378) If Knicks fans were celebrating when Phil Jackson joined the franchise as team president in 2014 then they were out-of-body ecstasy tripping this summer when the Knicks and Jackson decided to part ways. If you dabble in masochism, Rodger Sherman has a well-done piece in The Ringer on all of Phil… Read More New York Knicks 2017-2018 Season Preview
With tens of thousands of woman and children fleeing the violence and persecution of Central America, the United States is still searching for an identity when faced with 2017’s tired, poor, and huddled masses. Our country has a long history of its treatment of immigrants conflicting with its stated beliefs on immigration, even when given… Read More America’s Search For Identity Concerning Refugees
Last Season: 29-53 (.354) Perhaps more than any other team in the league, the Magic continue to be a team without any discernible identity. In their search they have tried all sorts of wacky lineup experiments and have put together a strange arrangement of personnel. This includes trading for Serge Ibaka and starting him with… Read More Orlando Magic 2017-2018 Season Preview
Last Season: 20-62 (.244) The Nets are one of those teams where some basketball commentators and fans seem to confuse fun and entertaining with good at basketball. After several years of poor management and the fallout from a disastrous trade with the Celtics where they were depleted of much needed draft picks, every sign points… Read More Brooklyn Nets 2017-2018 Season Preview
Last Season: 53–29 (.646) with Eastern Conference Finals loss to the Cavaliers. The Celtics have gone through a huge shakeup this off-season with just four players from last year’s team and only two of their five starters remaining. They traded away two key role players in Jae Crowder and Avery Bradley as well as superstar… Read More Boston Celtics 2017-2018 Season Preview
