The End of a Dynasty

I remember the first time I saw Yao Ming play in person. It was an exhibition game where China was playing against Canada at GM Place, in Vancouver. Yao had already been selected as the first pick in the 2002 draft by Houston, and my friend Darren, whose basketball opinion I trust almost as much [...]

Valanciunas Impresses In Rout Of Americans

Just a quick post. I just finished watching a stream of the Lithuanian U19 team beating the US, 108 to 75. No, that’s not a misprint. It was a complete rout, although to be fair, the Lithuanians have probably played together far, far more than the Americans, and the Americans did not appear to have [...]

Jonas Valanciunas Is Like Two Cookies (and Amir)

A friend recently told me about a show she was watching where scientists conducted an experiment with young children. They put them in a room and on a table was a cookie. The kids were told that if they didn’t eat the cookie, then after half an hour, they would get two cookies. Despite knowing [...]

Slow News Day (version 3)

It’s less than a month until training camp starts and it can’t start soon enough for many NBA fans. August and September are incredibly slow and if it wasn’t for the World Championships, there would be pretty much no reason to talk about basketball. Of course, that doesn’t mean websites like RealGM.com go black for [...]

Is Toronto A Small Market Team?

Austin Burton, of Slam Magazine, just wrote an article where he says that, despite the size of the city, when it comes to professional sports, Toronto is a small market city. He talks about the number of times the Raptors have been on US television and how popular the franchise player, Chris Bosh is, as [...]