No, College Hoops is not Superior to the NBA game, but at this Time of Year, at least, it is Far More Compelling

by gordie | Apr 1, 2023 | College Basketball, NBA

With the college basketball season nearing its culmination, I sat down earlier this week and churned out 1,318 words about how much better the NBA game is than the college game … in months other than March. Mentioned how much more talented pro players are (duh). Threw...

What Will Survive Basketball’s Cruelest Month — And What Will Survive Forever (as Hempfield’s Players Will Learn)

by gordie | Mar 16, 2023 | High School Sports

The yellow school bus, No. 40, departed from the rear of Reading’s Geigle Complex at 9:35 Wednesday night, destination Landisville. It carried members of the Hempfield boys’ basketball team, their season having ended a little while earlier in an alley fight of a PIAA...

Manheim Central, Bedraggled No More, Continues to Go Knock, Knock, Knocking on Respectability’s Door

by gordie | Mar 4, 2023 | High School Sports

The odd postscript to Manheim Central’s loss to Exeter in Thursday’s District Three 5A boys’ basketball championship game was that the Barons’ locker room became an escape room. And head coach Charlie Fisher and his staff were having a hard time, ya know, escaping. No...

Joel Embiid Has a Sore Foot, But Surely Everything Will Be Fine, Right? Right?

by gordie | Feb 17, 2023 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers

The banner, supported by two poles, was still on display Wednesday afternoon, across Pattison Avenue from the Eagles’ practice facility in South Philadelphia. It was green with white lettering, of course. “William Penn. Ben Franklin. Jalen Hurts,” it said on one side....

A Modest Proposal: Sixers, Pressed for Depth in the Middle, Gotta Go to Mo (Bamba)

by gordie | Feb 3, 2023 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers

Having long before completed his night’s work, Joel Embiid stood before a clot of media types at his cubicle in the Sixers’ locker room late Wednesday. This was highly irregular. Normally the NBA scoring leader, like his teammates, confines his postgame remarks to the...