by gordie | May 14, 2026 | NBA
Draymond Green sat in for Shaquille O’Neal on “Inside the NBA” one day last week, and besides making the show 20 percent better engaged in some verbal sparring with Charles Barkley. Barkley declared that the run by Green’s Golden State Warriors – “one of the greatest...
by gordie | May 11, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
So here we are again. Trade Joel Embiid. Trade Paul George. Trade everybody. And while you’re at it, fire Nick Nurse and Daryl Morey, too. In the minds of many, that’s how the Sixers can cleanse their palates after being embarrassed by the Knicks in the second round...
by gordie | Apr 1, 2026 | NBA
Anthony Edwards, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ best player (and indeed one of the finest players in the NBA), recently missed six games due to an inflamed knee, a potentially crippling blow for a team grappling for playoff seeding in the rugged Western Conference. The...
by gordie | Feb 25, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
Label Luke Epplin however you please. He’s the dreamer from small-town Illinois who once came to New York City with two suitcases in hand, knowing if he could make it there, yada, yada, yada. He’s also the writer who went from fledgling poet/playwright to struggling...
by gordie | Nov 14, 2025 | NBA
The way Wally Walker remembers it, he and the other members of the Seattle SuperSonics trudged into a Kansas City hotel room on Nov. 30, 1977, hours before a game against the host Kings, to meet their new coach. To say it was a dispirited group would be an...
by gordie | Aug 23, 2025 | Journalism, NBA
John Wall just retired, and Lee Corso is about to do so. My question: Were they good? They were significant – Corso, the college football analyst, more so than Wall, the NBA point guard. They were entertaining, I guess. But were they good? I admit to watching ESPN’s...
