by gordie | Jun 16, 2026 | NBA
New York City is what it is – imperious, intimidating, self-important. It is a place that is big and brash, loud and (way, way too) proud. Please, New Yorkers, tell us again why Derek Jeter should have gone not just to Cooperstown, but straight into heaven, to sitteth...
by gordie | May 31, 2026 | NBA
Thirty bailiffs work at the Lancaster County Courthouse, myself included. Thirty people, retirees mostly, doing the all-rise thing on a part-time basis, after doing something else most of their lives. So everyone has a backstory, and everyone has stories, period –...
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...
