by gordie | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
The photo below, from Fightonstate.com, confirms I was among the media members lurking about at Penn State’s Lift for Life last Saturday, where it was almost as impossible to avoid the optimism surrounding the upcoming season as it was the players engaged in one...
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...
