by gordie | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
In this most uplifting of 76ers’ offseasons, the biggest reason for pause is not the ankle sprain suffered by top overall pick Markelle Fultz in a summer-league game Saturday in Las Vegas. It doesn’t appear to be a big deal. Really, it doesn’t. Honest. Just keep that...
by gordie | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am embedded here at the Sixers’ practice facility in Camden, N.J. – though not in the (shudder) war room – for what is arguably the best non-event on the sports calendar: the NBA Draft. It is the best because it is shorter than the NFL selection process, while...
by gordie | Jun 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Twitter exploded around dinnertime Friday night, as only Twitter can, with word of a proposed Celtics-Sixers trade that would allow Philadelphia to draft a 19-year-old point guard who led his college team to a 9-22 record in his only year on campus. Excited yet? OK, I...
by gordie | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Anybody who has ever played pickup basketball knows the feeling of walking in a gym and seeing a stacked team at the other end of the court. A why-bother feeling takes root in the pit of your stomach. You end up guarding someone you cannot guard, and being guarded by...
by gordie | Jun 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Cleveland thumped Golden State in Game 4 on Friday night, and almost immediately I was transported back to the spring of 1982. The site was an auxiliary locker room in the bowels of the old Spectrum, before Game Six of an Eastern Conference semifinal series between...
by gordie | Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
As Golden State has rolled through the NBA playoffs we have heard the comparisons and the conjecture. The Warriors, according to Las Vegas, would be favored over Michael Jordan’s 72-victory juggernaut. Scottie Pippen, who played for those Bulls and last year...
by gordie | Jun 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
It is fascinating indeed to watch as other teams get caught up in the Golden State Warriors’ vortex. Immortals, like LeBron James, are humbled. Others (like, say, J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson) are Washington Generalized. And that was the tale of Game Two of the NBA...
by gordie | Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Game one of the NBA Finals brought us an Allen Iverson salute and (apparently) a Rihanna stare-down. And here you thought this was about pro basketball’s two best teams vying for a championship – and Golden State drawing first blood with a 113-91 rout of Cleveland....
