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-61 posts tagged "NBA"
Carlos De Loera | Thursday, December 6, 2018
The NBA season is now just about a quarter of the way finished. The Bulls and Suns have fallen into their usual squalor. In a matter of days, the last light of hope shall be cast into darkness for the Knicks as they fall to 10 games under .500. And while we can rely on
Connor Mulvena | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I love the NBA this year. I always love basketball season, and I look forward to college basketball and the NBA every year, but for me, the NBA has a special charm that college basketball just doesn’t. The macho, tough guy side of me, which, as everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting me
Charlotte Edmonds | Monday, November 5, 2018
Only 10 games into the 82-game NBA season and things are starting to shake out as teams work through injuries and new additions. Although no significant conclusions can be made until at least the All-Star break, these are my much-too-soon observations. Minnesota Timberwolves Featuring the backcourt duo of Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose, the Wolves
Mia Berry | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The infamous J.R. Smith game-1 debacle and the Warriors’ eventual sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2018 NBA Finals all but assured that there would be The Decision: Part II within the coming weeks. The Lakers won the sweepstakes the second time around, but unlike the promises of championships that came when he teamed
Joe Everett | Thursday, September 20, 2018
On Tuesday league sources first notified The Athletic that Minnesota Timberwolves star Jimmy Butler met with head coach Tom Thibodeau in Los Angeles and requested a trade before his final contract season with the T-Wolves. Well alright then. The news comes less than a week before training camp, so obviously it’s less than ideal for
Charlotte Edmonds | Thursday, August 23, 2018
Having begun my amateur journalism career in news, the thought of writing a sports opinion piece is my own personal eighth circle of hell. However, there are few things I love talking about more than my hometown of Oklahoma City and its beloved basketball team — the Thunder. Consider yourself warned that the majority of
Michael Ivey | Friday, April 27, 2018
If you are a die-hard hockey fan like I am, you have also probably been glued to your television watching the Stanley Cup playoffs for the past few weeks. So far we’ve been treated to some exciting games and series, including an unbelievable Game 7 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins on
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Three Sports Authority columns. Three Observer Sports Writers. Two references to the Program of Liberal Studies. One slippery slope fallacy. One invocation of Aristotle’s Golden Mean. 2,425 words. 20 em dashes. Some good ideas, but not one mention of the real problem. What just happened? Last week, this column was the scene of a heated
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 21, 2018
During the past week, NBA commissioner Adam Silver toyed with the idea of re-inventing the NBA’s playoff system. The proposal’s central tennent is taking away seeding based on conference — where the teams with the first through eighth ranked records make the playoffs from each conference — to a system where the teams with the
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Remember about a week ago, when the Cleveland Cavaliers were 6-13 in their last 19 games dating back to Christmas Day, the players were questioning the legitimacy of a Kevin Love sickness and everyone in the locker room hated each other? Man, those were the days. Just one day after a thrilling win over the