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....
