It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons. Actually, scratch that; it was really quite in the middle. The 2009-10 NBA season was nothing short of a roller-coaster ride for the Toronto Raptors, where highs were coupled with lows, and the end result was missing the playoffs by one measly game. [...]
One of my favorite basketball cliches is that ‘basketball is jazz.’ It’s an especially apt one for middle-aged sportswriters to make since both seem to involve improvisation on top of a structured bottom; what good would Kind of Blue have been if Miles Davis hadn’t just come off the more structured Porgy and Bess? Like [...]
These are the days of wine and roses in the NBA. This is the time of the year that anybody and everybody looks forward to: the best-of-seven NBA Finals. Nitpick all you want, but this is the classic Finals matchup, the one that seems universally constant: Lakers versus Celtics. The two teams you’re more likely [...]