Posts under ‘At The Buzzer’

Why do I hate the talking heads at the WWLIS and the big sports sites so much?
Because they’re too busy chocking on the cocks of the power conferences to realize that things aren’t, well, to put it mildly, fair in the so-called revenue generating sports at the D-I level.
While college football, where a cartel of [...]

It’s only the preseason but the fact that the Knicks are undefeated, following Tuesday’s 116-108 win over Boston, is a pretty positive sign. Sure, they beat a Nets side that was without J-Kidd and Vince Carter and Eddy Curry went off against the 76ers — he had 25 points and 10 boards — and [...]

From Adam Morrison, providing 19 points of instant offense off the bench for Charlotte in a 109-90 Bobcat loss to Orlando, to Rudy Gay dropping 14 on the Rockets to spark Memphis to a 75-69 win over Houston, and then up to the Great White North, where Euro rooks Jorge Garbajosa (13 points) and number [...]

Sometimes a picture really does say a 1000 words…

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Given your choice of centers, Samuel Dalembert or Eddy Curry?
This conversation came up at work in the wake of the Knicks trade for Steve Francis. I was told by a relatively hoops savvy colleague that of 100 people, all but myself and my cube neighbor and erstwhile bocce ball and Friday happy [...]

I know it does me. Especially when they lose by 28, as they did to East Tennessee on Monday.

New York City may not come to mind when one thinks of mid-major college hoop but Gotham, with teams in the MAAC, NEC, and Ivy League, is undoubtedly one of the best places to watch college ball as it’s played outside the corporate conferences and WWLIS’s watch. Throw in the fact that the tri-state [...]

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1. Will the Pacers season last long enough to keep Ron Artest out of the recording studio for the foreseeable future?
Answer: Music fans the world over should be safe until from the both the vocal and production stylings of Artest until late June when the Pacers season figures to end after the NBA [...]

25 days and counting until the University of Buffalo kicks off its basketball season. I don’t know about anyone else, but that get’s me all jazzed up. Oh yeah, it’s also the start for of the season for some of those other teams you may of heard of, Kent State, Miami (Ohio) Ohio, [...]

It’s Preview Week here at Notes From A Basketball Junkie. Every day from today through next Tuesday, the start of the NBA season, you’ll find an amateurish and asinine prognostication on what’s going to happen in hoopsdom this season.
Call it Manifest Destiny in reverse, or don’t, but we begin with The MAC [...]

The Hoops Junkie’s Swag Stop
That’s right, after three long years of assinine, irreverent, and pointless basketblogging, I’ve finally taken the step of opening up the official Notes From A Basketball Junkie Webstore. All designs are 100% original and were handcrafed by the talented folks at Supa O Graffixx.
Even if you don’t buy [...]

Ever wondered why it is that I seem to know so much more than any person past or present would ever care to know about Big South or Southland Conference hoops? Obviously, it’s easy to see that aside from drinking lots of beer and fantasizing about different pop and porn tarts that I have [...]

10 Things We Learned in the NBA This Week
NBA Truth & Rumours
Which is why the good folks at Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated get paid: To bring me, and therefore you, all the news from the NBA that I’ve been too busy thinking of ways to coax Jim Kelly out of retirement to QB [...]

Being that it’s the off-season, hoops news is what you make of it and few do a better job of that than former CBA coach, author, and Phil Jackson confidant Charley Rosen. Blunt and irreverent, Rosen’s candid and crusty take on the game as it’s currently played in the NBA makes him a welcome [...]

That’s right kids, college hoops season tips off in fewer than 30 days, which means that us hoopheads will no longer have to bide our time watching no-necks ram into each other or tobacco-chewing hillbillies meander around grass in stirrup socks. The greatest game known to man, basketball, in it’s best format, mid-major college [...]

The blogosphere is buzzing with takes on Larry Brown taking the Knicks job. My faves range from the hopeful to the disagreeable to the skeptical to the clairvoyant.

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Sure looks like it, as news of New Jersey’s completion of the sign and trade deal for Portland Blazer power forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim, a 28-year old former all-star, has been followed by the Indiana Pacers winning the contest for Lithuanian point guard Sarunas Jasikevicius, an astoundingly accurate gunslinger, who will not only ably back-up [...]

Sadly, it isn’t because Mark Bortz is setting the Vegas Summer League on fire while playing for the LA Clippers entry because, well, he’s not. No this latest piece of proof that the MAC is tougher than a winter in Buffalo comes courtesy of a voice that’s been somewhat absent from the hoops blogosphere [...]

Sort of.
We begin our last call tour of hoopsdom by happily noting that former Niagara Purple Eagle power forward Juan Mendez, who wasn’t drafted since teams were looking for guys with more interesting names like Ricky, Linas, Dijon, and Axel, has inked a free agent deal with the Miami Heat. Are Buffalo’s [...]

I like the Kurt Thomas-Quentin Richardson trade a lot more now that dynamic former University of Washington point guard Nate Robinson is coming to the Knicks as part of the deal.
I also liked the fact that quite a few cats who actually played some college ball like the aformentioned Nate Robinson and Andrew [...]

A couple of mid-major stars, Niagara forward Juan Mendez, a 20+ ppg scorer and double-digit rebounder, and two time Mizzou Valley POY, point guard Darren Brooks of Southern Illinois, are hoping NBA careers are in their future.
Unfortunately, neither player pops up in any of the latest draft rumours that are currently making the rounds. [...]

Rasheed Wallace’s clutch 4th quarter helped to force a game seven
Get ready for game seven, baby!
After a regular season that would have been eminently forgettable if not for the November brawl between the Pistons and Pacers at Auburn Hills and a post-season that’s been relatively lackluster, the NBA title will be decided by a [...]

Actually, they’re not. Marty Burns at SI.Com has them picking 6-10 Spanish forward Fran Vazquez with the 8th overall pick, which would generate a couple million “Who the fuck is that(s)” in the Knicks nation.
They may be happier with NBADraft.Net’s mock draft, as that has them taking high-scoring 6-7 Texas A & [...]

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