Archive for January, 2010

It’s funny how the schedule makers in every sport seem to find a way to schedule a few games each season that can’t just be explained by luck. Don’t confuse fluke scheduling with deliberate scheduling. For example, nobody should be surprised if the Red Sox and Yankees or Cardinals and Cubs were to play each other the final week of the regular season. What I’m talking about is the kind of scheduling we saw the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs when three of the four games were rematches of games played the Sunday before. In the NBA, the scheduling [...]

Create a new poll: ALERT: Your poll was not submitted! Make sure you do not have repeat answers Makre sure you included a question Contact us if you think this was a mistake ALERT: There was an error connecting to the server, please try again. Question: Choices: Preview Confirm & Save Make Changes saving… // If you missed Part I, “10 Upcoming NBA Free Agents Who May Have Hurt Their Value This Season,” you can find it here. I’m not going to waste your time or mine in listing the cream of the crop in this summer’s free agent class [...]

We all know the obvious names in the NBA Free Agent Class of 2010—LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, etc. We also know the names of the guys who have the chance to rip up their current deals and sign new ones before the expiration of the league’s current collective bargaining agreement—Amaré Stoudemire, Paul Pierce, Dirk Nowitzki, Kenyon Martin, etc. But there are a number of soon-to-be free agents, or potential free agents, who might find the free agent market not as welcoming to them as they initially perceived it might be. Some of these guys are free-agents-to-be, [...]